But... But... Doctors would say something if the vax was dangerous!
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I appreciate your thoughtful response.
I would argue that the perpetual crisis might have something to do with certain peoples’ reluctance to accept the solution. You can’t refuse to participate in the solution and then lambast the solution for failing because you refused to cooperate.
I would absolutely agree that more onus than is necessary is placed on individuals, with respect the climate problems. Big companies are absolutely paying lip service by telling people to buy electric cars while they themselves are causing more problems than entire cities of people.
But at the end of the day, I think you’re conflating the “swamp solution” with the swamp taking ADVANTAGE of the solution.
Because, you know, they’re capitalists. And they are going to jump on a bandwagon if it makes them money, whether it’s the climate, LGBT rights, or whatever.
The swamp will align itself with whatever makes them a profit. If the smartest people on climate change say that we need to do something, and the swamp figures out how to monetize it, that doesn’t invalidate the solution any more than the UFC invalidates Trump’s platform.
I don’t disagree, to a point.
But we live in a capitalistic society. Solutions are hard to justify without a profit motive involved.
Socialists who want socialized healthcare will argue this to their dying breath. They have a solution, but without profit, nobody is interested.
Corporations have more power than they should. You and I will stand shoulder to shoulder on that.
But I think you’re discounting the independence and spirit of many scientists, who don’t take corporate paychecks. People who are absolutely happy to, say, publish studies that prove cigarettes cause cancer despite the industry power.
I know you think those people are on your side, but there are a remarkable scarcity of verifiably highly-credentialed people who think Trump is going to be reinstated, that the vaccines are a poison, and so forth. And I don’t think that’s because the industries have found a way to pay off the tens of millions of sciences and academics who disagree with Trump’s platform.
Eh, I think you underestimate the left on that. Bernie Sanders has been fighting the elites since the Trojan War. There are plenty of populist leftists.
There are definitely differences in how we define an ideal America, but that doesn’t mean we don’t see the same enemy. I understand that, which is part of why I hang out with you guys.