Abraham Kaplan, 1964 stated, "Much effort, (...), in behavioral science itself, is vitiated (to debase in moral or aesthetic status), in my opinion, by the principle of the drunkard's search.
"New York" magazine has an essay about the drunkard's search. (click here)
To me the Republican party is more calculating then the Democratic Party. They seek to manipulate the population of the American people to favor their outcomes. Why and how?
It is a hideous reality the American people don't care to understand, but, it shows itself in greatest measure in the climate crisis.
We are on a timeline of doom which will reach it's tipping point of NO return in about 10 years. It is the hope of most climate scientists that civilized achievement will have reached it's highest rate in regard to energy resources and the use of that energy in cars, etc., at that point in time. When that occurs the Earth will have the ability to begin to recover while Greenhouse Gas amounts decline.
When one realizes the SEGREGATION of political resources in the USA and those that receive partisanship such as the petroleum industry, it is easy to see why the USA has lost it's edge internationally. Why it has become the leader of regression rather than progression.
The most corrupt industries with little to value in building a better tomorrow in the USA and with allies, are the staunch supports of the Republican Party. It is due to the fact Republicans care not to change their pursuit of political finances, but, simply wallow in 'easy money politics' that the change necessary from the 1960s forward has completely stalled.
Peak Oil occurred in 2005. It is a fact and we know it. But, the petroleum industry is greedy beyond imagination so they decided to take a 'back woods' method of extracting oil and gas and put it mainstream. Fracking. Fracking emits large amounts of methane during it's process. Methane is to be 84% dangerous than CO2 when it comes to warming of Earth. Not only that, but, the petroleum industry likes to state methane (natural gas) is more efficient than oil or coal. In other words it puts out less CO2 so therefore it is best to use for an energy source and before you know it magic will happen and Earth will be back in balance. Not exactly and not even close.
But, because the Republicans stake their claim for campaign dollars from an entire industry of polluters the status quo has remained rather than made history.
That is the problem Americans face today. All the LOSERS in the USA economy have friends in the Republican Party. Those that would hang on to the past rather than reaching for the future.
Think about it.
When did the Republicans begin their march to making old cronies the best cronies of all time? It was when scientists began to return research on the climate and decided to sound the alarm in journals and peer reviewed literature. It was after the sixties when the USA stopped looking like "Futureworld" and more like turn of the century.
The fuel embargoes should have made a deeper impression on the American public than it did, but, then when the USA can't get what it wants there is always the military, ie: Iraq. So, while the old election supports, including the NRA, were sincerely placed in moth balls by many Americans that mostly call themselves Democrats, the old guard remained.
President Obama has made incredible strides in the USA to build wind farms and turning to solar. There are record numbers of solar and wind units in the USA today. And wind farms do not kill birds either or when offshore our whales and fisheries. These forms of energy are completely benign to our planet and our wildlife in every way. The scientists were right and to that reality the USA is finally moving forward again rather than in reverse. We just have to keep at it. But, in the same way we need to move forward to a better future, we also have to hold accountable the types of political donations exist and shun them including voting for the other guy when corruption of old cronies is evident.
It is a crime one family of wealthy oil industry barons can actually manipulate the truth and effect American elections in not just one state, but, fifty states. That is scary and everyone needs to respect the fact, ownership of the legislative branch of any level of government is not democracy and should not be favored in any election.
