Drinking Trump's Kool Aid

I MUST ADMIT that I am a bit obsessed with climate change. Trumptards would probably derisively, cleverly describe my condition as "climate change derangement syndrome", or worse, since they believe that climate change does not exist, and is either deliberate hoax intended to facilitate the concentration of political and economic power in the hands of liberals, or something like that, somehow or other. Mentally ill people often think themselves quite sane, and all others the truly ill. Nonetheles, I think about it a great deal, probably every few minutes, and I talk about it whenever I can. I can, of course, anytime I want, but one must be careful. People, at least Americans, don't seem to like talking about it. Either it bores them, or they say that since we can't do anything about it, why talk about it? The answer is, of course, that we might very well indeed be able to do something about it, but only if we talk about it, or at least talk about precisely what to do. I often tell people that I can understand why my sixth grade teacher admonished our class to never discuss two topics with anyone: religion, and politics. That might work for religion, but in a country in which we the people are tasked with the heavy burden of governing ourselves, how are we to govern ourselves if we never talk about governing? Good question, I think. In the United States, governning democratically means talking about it. It seems like more often than not I quote Goethe in these essays. Goethe said, paraphrased: "It is not enough to merlely cite a problem. One must offer a solution." Now, I kind fo agree with that,kind of don't. Its the only Goethe quote I can think of that I might not fully agree with. It seems a bit idealistic and needless to me,to require that everyone who identifies a problem offer a solution to it. Anyone who is old enough enough to remember several decades of climate know that it has indeed changed. They have lived, are living through it. They know that climate change is real, whether they attribute it to human activity, nature, or God, as religious folks tend to redundantly do. (Since everything is caused by God, including human beings, their thoughts, and their deeds, sure, climate change is caused by God). But if they've spent their lives working and caring for a family, they've been busy, and cannot possibly be expected to offer any valid, informed opinion concerning what to do about it. We cannot all, after, earn doctorates in climate science. There is more evidence, much more, proving that cliamte change is real and that we are causing it than there is proving that the holocaust happened. The debate is over,and has been for a long time. People who deny climate change at this point are no less willfully self deluded than those who still claim that Trump won the election of 2020. It is observable that these tend to be the same people, people who believe in an anthropomorphic god in the sky, elaborate, make believe conspiracies, and whatever easily discredited nonsense such folks embrace for the sole purpose of seeking confirmation of their personal biases. We Americans are most accomplished at twisting reality to suit our political purposes. Trump supporters have taken this art to new height of refinement, with no end in sight. The Trump administration is more like a drunken, abusive uncle than a big brother, spewing irrational justifications for irational actions. Anybody who believes that a huge frozen island in the arctic is vital to the survival of the United States or that America's cities desperaely need extra help policing themselves is drinking the party Kool Aid, unaware that it might very well be full of poison.