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Deplorables

Jonathan Ratner

You may remember a bit more than 8 years ago when Hillary Clinton described about 1/3 of Americans as deplorables and she was given hell for it. Politicians cant tell the truth.

That is us. A country does not sink to this level of depravity unless it is deeply sick in its body politic.

We need to face the facts, the reality.

I never want to hear the words “America is better than this” again. I never want to be told about America’s better angels.

I want honesty. I want an admission of exactly who we are as a country, and let’s be damn clear about that definition: We are a country that just elected – that just willfully chose – one of the most cruel, unscrupulous and transparently self-serving political figures in modern history to be president. Again.

This sums up the situation as we stare at ourselves in the mirror. Read the full piece here

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  1. Daryl Hunter Avatar
    Daryl Hunter

    John, if you want to get reasonable stuff done don’t do so much stupid things that screw Americans. Everyone likes the environment, but we don’t like immigration by executive fiat, DEI, transitioning kids under 18, having men competing in women’s sports, unaffordable energy and food, and having housing costs beyond the ability of our children to buy them. Oh I could go in but being reasonable isn’t in the liberal DNA. Cheers ~

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    1. Frank Krosnicki Avatar
      Frank Krosnicki

      Well said , Daryl. I cannot stand Donald Trump. However, as you point out , we have been going down the wrong path. I can only hope that the new administration does better.

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    2. Chris Zinda Avatar
      Chris Zinda

      Curious.

      What’s reasonable during anthropogenic climate chaos and the 6th mass extinction?

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  2. Chris Zinda Avatar
    Chris Zinda

    A journo friend asked my thoughts on what the next Trump Admin means for public lands.

    My response:

    My first thought was Mencken.

    “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

    Re: public lands.

    Things won’t change much, as they didn’t change much from Biden to Trump. More unsustainable mining, gas, solar, grazing, wreckreation. A continuation of climate chaos and species extinction. Bundy cattle will remain.

    Given the GOP is also likely to control congress, perhaps a thing that will change is that BLM lands will be auctioned to the highest bidder, that the Trump Admin will join the Utah suit Jan 6, the SCOTUS will agree, and Congress will make it official.

    Wilderness as preservation is dead, areas opened to bikes, bolts and BASE jumping f*&ks.

    The Trump Admin and GOP Congress will get tough on climate/extinction protests, passing laws to keep protestors in jail for decades,Trump using his immunity telling the Natl Guard to shoot them in the heat of a moment.

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Jonathan Ratner
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Jonathan Ratner has been in the trenches of public lands conservation for nearly 25 years. He started out doing forest carnivore work for the Forest Service, BLM, and the Inter-agency Grizzly Bear Study Team, with some Wilderness Rangering on the Pinedale Ranger District. That work lead him directly to deal with the gross corruption within the federal agencies' range program.

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