The Extreming Right Wing

I DESPISED RONALD REAGAN, mainly for his militaristic policies, his perfidy in Central America, and his neo-liberal economic philosophy favoring the corporate wealthy. Supply side economics, again rearing its ugly head, is a proven sham, foisted upon us by the corporate oligarchy and its political handmaidens. Reagan was a true gentleman, even more so by today's diminished standards, but his policies amounted to murder. For a thorough explanation of this, read Noam Chomsky. Today's conservative Christian Republicans not only make Reagan seem gentlemanly, they make him seem, by comparison. intelligent, open minded, educated, sensible, sane. At least Reagan accepted and believed in simple, basic science. He understood that if you put a trillion tons of carbon into the Earth's atmosphere, and leave it there for decades, while steadily increasing the amount, that it will eventually change the Earth's climate, by absorbing and retaining heat. The retained heat from the sun warms the atmosphere. Hence, global warming. Its that simple. Giving credit where possible, today's conservatives probably understand basic chemistry and man made climate change better than they pretend to, but are self blinded by ideological devotion. To acknowledge man made climate change requires accepting the need to correct it, requiring social, political, and economic change, and change means progress, which to the conservative entails the world's greatest evil; liberalism. Ronald Reagan would have understood that our naturally changing climate does not prevent human beings from influencing and impacting it, and that it is not necessary to have the power of God to impact the Earth's ecosystem. Imagine the harm we could do if the world were taken over by terrorists, and every atomic bomb and nuclear facility in the world were simultaneously detonated, releasing huge amounts of radiation into the atmosphere and every oil well in the world, both on land and below the surface of the oceans, were simultaneously exploded. All life on earth would be extinguished, without God's interference. Climate change is not a scheme to redistribute the wealth, and it is not an attempt o play God: it is destructive, unsustainable human industrial activity which is destroying the environment in slow motion, but with ever increasing rapidity. Reagan would have understood this, because he understood reality, and basic science. Reagan also understood that giving tax breaks to corporations and small businesses produces prosperity only if the money saved is reinvested in increased pay for the lowest paid workers, because increased demand is required for increased supply, and the way to increase demand is to increase the number of consumers who have money to spend on consumer goods and services. Of all the absurdity and insanity emanating from contemporary right wing extremism, is our national past time of daily mass murders, most of which are perpetrated by extreme right wing psychos. This is perhaps why crazy conspiracy theories telling us that mass murders are fiction invented by the government, or by some imaginary "deep state" for the purpose of justifying gun control also emanate from the far right. It is the conservative movement which refuses to remove assault weapons from America, and promotes the insane notion that the more good people who arm themselves in public, the fewer mass murders will occur. The far right in America has become a bastion of mental illness and unreasoning, illogical thinking underpinned by blind devotion to a bankrupt ideology, and Ronald Reagan would not only be ashamed of it, he would see it for what it is; sheer, unadulterated insanity.