Becoming Inolerant

 ABOUT TWO THIRDS or the American people consider climate change a serious threat, surveys say. The remaining one third either don't believe in climate change, believe in it but don't think it matters, don't care, or think the lord is coming soon, or have never heard of it, your pick. Of this misguided third almost all of them are conservative Republicans, unsurprisingly, as a slowly decreasing but still significant percentage or Republicans are climate change deniers.For more than twenty years the United States Department of Defense has identified man made climate change as the single greatest threat to american national security.You'd think that alone would bring conservatives around to reality, but evidently it doesn't. Any American who denies climate change is therefore by definition, and in actuality, a traitor. Donald Trump, by pursuing policies which contribute to the enemy, climate change, is therefore a traitor and belongs in prison, or in front of a firing squad for aiding and abetting the enemy. A mental health facility would do. I can hear conservatives climate change deniers sneering derisively at this idea. I can assure them that my contempt for them is far greater than theirs for me and my fellow despisers of Donald Trump and of climate change deniers generally. As we age, we become, as we often say, "set in our ways". Much of what we once tolerated becomes intolerable. Once upon a long time ago, for instance, I could tolerate conservative republicans, if only barely, and I could tolerate fundamentalist Christians, to a very limited point. That time is no more. Refusing to accept the existence of and to contribute to to defeat of a dire threat to your own country is the behavior of a traitor, and should not be tolerated. There was a time, long ago, when I tolerated racists, right wing extremists, homophobes, and climate change deniers. That time has gone. Any talk of reconciliation between progressives, at least this progressive, and such reprehensible people as white supremacists and hell fire Christians who consider homosexuality as a sin is a wasted effort. These barbaric people are reprehensible, and to find common ground with them is pointless. They must be defeated in the arena of ideals and relegated to the intellectual garbage heap, where they properly belong. The same is true of the Trump movement and their current traitorous activity of trying to steal the election by claiming falsely that the Democrats stole it, without a shred of evidence to support their fantasy. the sooner these reprobates are discredited by decent people, the better.