It is very sad to see an intelligent man sell his soul to the extremist right wing of the Republican Party simply because Jeb Bush wasn't nominated. If anything Republicans needed a better anchor to their party and that was lost when George Will went belly up.
He doesn't love the USA, he raises a flag with far few stars in hopes that everything Trump and the Republican elite are trying to pull off is actually going to be held as a truth to the USA. I don't know how many stars in the field of blue exactly George Will adheres to, but, it was before Woodrow Wilson won the first world war.
I could not believe Wilson was ridiculed as the First Progressive president by Mr. Will. President Woodrow Wilson stands among the greats and I am quite confident he had a higher IQ than the brut i the White House who most experts state is approximately 120 at best. I know this will make Trump jealous, but, President Barak Obama is stated to be the highest IQ of any US president at 146.
The reason President Woodrow Wilson is considered among the best US presidents is that he saw the enormity of world war and sought to bring the world together in peace with what was coined at the time "The League of Nations," which was part of the Treaty of Versailles.
Woodrow Wilson was a gentleman and a scholar. That counts. He was a learned man with a PhD. and went onto teach college. He would become President of Princeton University where he taught law. Eventually, he was elected Governor of New Jersey, then President of the United States of America.
For all his genuine brilliance as a leader in every capacity he filled, he had come from a Confederate family. President Wilson was born in 1856 and the Civil War was 1861 - 1865. Wilson's father was a chaplain in the Confederate Army. As a matter of fact, there is a really good chance the strong call of serving in the ministry with both his parents lead him to realize peace is God's best tool for an Earth that flourished with abundance.
And Mr. George Will really went off the rails with the Climate Crisis. "Of course the climate is changing, it has always been changing." Directly out of the Rubio rhetoric. It is obvious George Will and most of the Republican Party are so arrogant they have no need for scientists, they know it all.
Earth is 4.543 billion years old. At that time Earth was very hot and the land mass was found in one place. It was as Earth cooled that the landmass broke apart and moved on plates on top of the layer of magma. The first ice ages didn't begin until 2.4 million years ago. So, this idea that climate is always changing is incorrect. The climate has been ADJUSTING to Earth's changing status. Earth has, in the past, controlled the climate, but, in the year 2018, the climate is controlling the outcomes on Earth. Why? Because of the overabundance of greenhouse gases.
But, there is another issue at hand, in that this is no ordinary climate change. As a matter of fact, it isn't climate change at all, that was the name given by Congress to iron out issues that presented to the petroleum industry as tragic to their profitably. This is a climate crisis. Why? Because there are 7.6 billion human beings on Earth and they are dying of catastrophic events of climate. Even The West is not immune.
This is ABRUPT climate change. It is a climate crisis. It is not simply climate change that takes place over a longer period of time. This is ABRUPT climate change. It is happening in less than 150 years.
George Will mentioned the "Little Ice Age." The Little Ice Age was over 500 years in duration and if one counts both stages it can be discerned it was at work just short of 1000 years. The Little Ice Age never had the catastrophic events as this episode of ABRUPT climate change.
What is happening now is abrupt climate change and it is killing people. I won't even talk about the Sixth Extinction as it is ongoing. Forget all the rest of the world if necessary to make a point, but, Katrina killed 1833 people, primarily poor and minority. The death toll of Hurricane Maria will far exceed that of Katrina.
There are no tornadoes anymore; there are tornado outbreaks or enormous wedge cloud tornadoes like that of the 2013 Moore tornado killing 26 people of which two were indirectly related, 212 injuries and it did over $2 billion in damages.
To look to other regions of the world, the deaths are high and storms incredible. The Super Typhoon that hit the Philippines caused innumerable deaths with winds as high as 260 mph. Those wind speeds have been unheard of until recent years. 50 thousand Russians dead due to fires, the bushfires of Australia and just the last few years the devastating fires of France. France also suffered a heat wave that killed 10,000 people.
These are all climate events unlike any others are known to history and they are all happening in a very short period of time. The monstrous storms and fires only started in the past 15 years.
The current climate crisis has been warned by scientists since the 1960s and it is upon us. No one can deny the catastrophic events of Earth's climate today. The mass extinction event of corals alone defines an alert to irreparable damage that has dropped PLANETARY oxygen levels.
The idea all these issues, including mischaracterizing Woodrow Wilson, is allowable in the year 2018 is nothing but propaganda. That may be the height of George Wills journalism career, but, it is absolutely devastating to the rest of the world and most of the population of the USA.
Just stop it. Stop writing and spewing such idiocy. It does not belong anywhere in a civilized society with a conscience. Those that do should be fully ashamed of themselves. The Frist Amendment provides for freedom of speech, which is where the power of the Press can be found. But, the freedom of speech is not freedom for propaganda that lies, destroys and kills. That is not freedom of speech, it is malicious speech and should never be tolerated.
Go ahead, Mr. Will, you explain this one since you've become so good at creating excuses for the petroleum industry and wayward billionaires.
