Imagine just for a moment that Trump becomes POTUS. Imagine just for a moment what would happen if he and the Republicans actually carried out all their desires to end regulations and to let profit rule.
I imagined that last night and I could not sleep.
No clean air. No clean water. Forests devastated. Oceans polluted. Biodiversity gone. Wildlife decimated. Cities ruined. People deported, impoverished, enslaved. Food riots. It isn’t impossible.
While Trump’s supporters fight over non-issues such as their guns and their bibles, one very important issue is ignored: our planet’s health.
When our planet is at the brink because of only a hundred or so years of extreme exploitation for profit, how can ANYONE think of rolling back regulations? Who actually believes a polluted planet is sustainable? Who actually believes rich orange billionaires will give the ordinary folk a share in their filthy empires of rape and pillage?
Would you think that America would be great if Bernie Madoff, a rich businessman, were President? As Nomi Prins writes at TomDispatch.com, imagine that for a moment. Then think how similar Trump is to Madoff. And remember that Madoff is in prison. Trump possibly should be – he just hasn’t been caught.
Read: Madoff in the White House?
How Trump’s Conflicts of Interest Could Become Ours
By Nomi Prins
I want to imagine a world where countries work together and go green, have an all-out green revolution, signing and carrying out the Paris Climate Agreement as the EU just promised to do.
I want to imagine a world where President Obama’s Climate Action Plan is carried out because businesses KNOW it is the RIGHT thing to do, because it is important for all of us to understand that we have only one home: EARTH. No one is going to colonize Mars and no one should mine the moon, for godsake! Let’s just put Earth right, okay????
I don’t want a short lifespan as a wage-slave under any sort of Madoff or Trump. These folks are just NOT good leadership material. Greed rules their hearts (if they have hearts). The only scenario that a Trump presidency leads to is a planet of rusted out, smoking barbed wire with rich, fat orange guys counting their money in their sterile oxygen pods.... just before the planet implodes and blows every living thing into the stratosphere.
Vote for The Planet. Vote Democrat.