Don’t you just hate it when people who have nothing to do with politics, and who are painfully ignorant of current events, and of history in general, insert themselves into the public discourse?  Labron James of the L.A. Lakers is a recent example.   As a basketball player, Labron is a phenomenon.  He was so good as a high school player, that he didn’t even have to go to college, even for a year, to become the top NBA prospect.  In the NBA, he has excelled at a level which has made him the face of the sport.  So fully has Labron dominated his sport, that he has become known as King James, an appellation he uses as his Twitter handle.

The trouble is that Labron’s recent comments have proven that even a King is vulnerable to criticism.  It all started when Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey posted a seemingly innocuous tweet to the Root of All Evil, Twitter.  The tweet read, “Fight for Freedom.  Stand with Hong Kong.”  To anyone who’s been paying attention, the tweet referred to the recent protests in Hong Kong.  A little background.  In 1897, the Chinese government gave the British the right to govern Hong Kong for 100 years.  Hong Kong became a thriving commercial center, indeed the preeminent center for Asian capitalism.  In 1997, the Communist Chinese government regained control of Hong Kong, under an agreement that was supposed to protect the rights of Hong Kong’s 7 million residents, permitting them to continue their normal lives through 2047; the so-called One Country, Two Systems policy.  Only problem is that the Chinese Communists were lying, as communists always do.  They don’t intend to permit Hong Kong to do business as usual, nor are they content to permit the residents of Hong Kong to enjoy the personal freedoms to which they are accustomed, and which the Commies promised to respect.  This has caused massive protests in Hong Kong, with some 2 million people taking part.  The Hong Kong residents are fighting for their lives, against a regime that imprisons millions in concentration camps, brutalizes religious and ethnic minorities, harvests the organs of those labelled “criminals,” and mandates late term abortions.  Against this backdrop, you’d think that an American citizen’s suggestion that freedom is preferable to slavery would be of no moment, but think again.  Morey works for the NBA and the NBA does business in China, and had some of its teams in China playing exhibition games at the time Morey dared to express the sentiment upon which the United States of America was founded.   The Chinese went nuts.  Even though NBA Commissioner Silver made a mealy-mouthed apology to the Chinese, they attacked him.  By “brazenly endorsing Morey’s secessionist-supporting tweet,” Mr. Silver has unleashed “Chinese people’s anger at such displays of thoughtless prejudice.”  China’s state-run CCTV suspended broadcasts of preseason games in China, saying “any speech that challenges national sovereignty and social stability is not within the scope of freedom of speech.”  Just for the record, the freedom to say only what the government approves of is NOT freedom of speech.  The NBA made Morey delete his tweet and apologize.  It seems the NBA makes lots of money in China broadcasting its games, and selling its merchandise, and the NBA has too many sneaker endorsement deals with shoe companies that manufacture and sell their shoes in China.   Enter Labron James, who makes some $36 million a year to stuff a ball in a hoop, and has endorsements, including one with Nike, reportedly worth a billion dollars to the King.  Labron jumped into the fray, on the side of the Communist Chinese.  “I don’t want to get in a word or sentence feud with Daryl Morey.  But I believe he wasn’t educated on the situation at hand and he spoke.  So many people could have been harmed, not only physically or financially, but emotionally and spiritually.  Just be careful what we tweet, what we say and what we do.  We do have freedom of speech, but there can be a lot of negative things that come with that too.”  Sounds like Labron’s “freedom of speech” is surprisingly like what the Chinese government calls “freedom.”  This was a strange stance, coming as it does from a person who has spoken out on the subject of injustice, previously tweeting, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”  “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”  So OK, as far as Labron’s concerned, black lives matter, but the lives of the millions living in Hong Kong don’t matter.  If Labron thought this through, and he obviously didn’t, he might have stayed out this fight.  People might be harmed physically?  So what, if a foreign government says, “Shut up or we’ll kill you” we should remain quiet?  “People might be harmed financially?”  There’s where Labron flirted with the truth.  There’s too much money to be made in China to permit an American citizen to enjoy the fruits of the First Amendment.  Let’s let Labron explain in his own words,  “We all talk about this freedom of speech.  Yes, we all do have freedom of speech, but at times there are ramifications for the negative that can happen when you’re not thinking about others, and you’re only thinking about yourself.”  Uh, Your Majesty, Daryl Morey was thinking about others.  He was thinking about the millions of oppressed people who exist under the yoke of Chinese tyranny.  Morey spoke out for the voiceless people of Hong Kong.  You spoke out to protect your own pocketbook.  I’d like to say, “You should have known better,” but you clearly don’t know.   As Clint Eastwood said as Inspector Harry Callahan in Magnum Force,  “A man’s GOT to know his limitations.”  You should limit yourself to stuffing a ball in a hoop.  You do that better than anyone else.  So please Labron, for the sake of the untold millions of truly oppressed people in China, shut up and dribble!  Otherwise, you’ll forfeit the title of King James, and henceforth will become Chairman Labron.

The late, great Jimmy Breslin once wrote a book entitled The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight, which chronicled the exploits of a dysfunctional organized crime family in New York.  The book was made into a movie, featuring a young Robert DeNiro (before he became the under-educated, overpaid, foul-mouthed cafone he is today).  Currently, the House of Representatives is in the hands of an even more dysfunctional group of organized criminals, who falsely call themselves “Democrats.”  This Washington-based organized crime family is even more screwed-up than than the one Jimmy Breslin described.  The Democrats could fairly be called The Gang That Couldn’t Lie Straight, or how about La Cosa Stupid, LCS for short?  LCS was poised to retain the presidency in 2016.  They had a popular out-going president in Il Duce Obama, and they nominated Don Hillary to be their new Ladra di Tutti Ladre (that’s thief of all thieves). All they had to do was to beat a brash, amateur politician, who was ridiculed by all the experts, and who lacked support even among the leaders of his own Party.  LCS pulled out all the stops.  Their media employees denounced Trump around the clock.  Remember The Godfather, “We have newspaper people on the payroll, don’t we Tom?”  But that wasn’t good enough.  LCS used the CIA and the FBI to try to fix the election, and to create an “insurance policy” in the unlikely event that Donald Trump actually won.  Don Hillary sent her button men to Ukraine to dig up dirt on Paul Manafort, to be used to affect the 2016 election. (Sound familiar?).  Then Don Hillary hired a company (Fusion GPS) to get a foreign intelligence officer (Christopher Steele) to pay some Russian intelligence operatives for a pack of lies, later called the Steele Dossier.  (I thought it was wrong, nay impeachable, to use foreign officials to affect a U.S. election).  Then LCS got John Brennan and his CIA to use diplomats and foreign intelligence operatives from Italy, Malta, Great Britain and Australia to entrap George Papadopolous, allowing them to begin an investigation of him, and then used the lying Steele Dossier to get authorization from the FISA Court to conduct electronic surveillance on  Carter Page, on the Trump campaign, and on the Trump Administration after the election.  LCS used the FBI in the plot.  They induced the FISA Court to go along by simply lying; Comey, Rosenstein, and Sally Yates swore the dossier was verified, when it wasn’t.  Then James Comey went to President Trump and told him one truth and one lie; “The dossier is salacious and unverified,” and “You are not the subject of a criminal investigation.”  Trump caught on to Comey and fired him.  Enter Bob Mueller.  Co-conspirator Rosenstein brought Mueller to Trump to interview as Comey’s replacement.  The perfect choice if you want to enforce the FBI Code of Silence.  Trump says Mueller wanted the job, Mueller’s assistant confirms that, but Mueller testified before the Congress that he didn’t interview for the job.  The next day, he’s appointed Special Counsel.  Nearly two years of reshuffling the LCS lies, and Mueller’s investigation came to nothing.  Fear not.  LCS moved on to impeachment.  On what evidence?  We don’t need no stinkin’ evidence.  Congressman Al Green, he of the hair so greasy that his scalp could be fracked, has been trying to impeach Trump since January 2017.  Green usually lies, but has occasional slips, such as, “We have to impeach him or he’ll be reelected.” (That spinning sound you hear is coming from our Founding Founders’ graves).  LCS Capo Gerry, Il Pinguino, Nadler took a shot at impeachment, claiming Mueller found Russian collusion and obstruction of justice.  Those lies didn’t work.  So LCS Boss Nancy, Senza Denti (try Google translate), Pelosi turned to Capo Adam, Faccia di Culo, Schiff (for brains) to pursue the Ukrainian phone call caper, which in keeping with LCS policy, is another tissue of lies.  A Squealer, in LCS parlance, a “Rat,” made false claims about Trump’s phone call with the Ukranian President.  The Rat’s lies fell apart when Trump released the actual transcript of the call.  Other problems were that Schiff (for brains) lied about the Rat’s background, his/her basis of knowledge, and about the fact that the Rat gave him advance notice of the complaint. Schiff then went on TV and even lied about what was in the transcript of the call.  So they enlisted a second Squealer, Rat #2, to “take care of that thing.” (The first thing, or the second thing?)  LCS claimed Rat #2 was a Republican with first-hand knowledge, but whoops, that was a lie too.  Rat #2 is a Democrat, attached to the campaign of one of the Democrats running for President, who retained a mob lawyer who has represented other LCS members, including Don Hillary, Chuck, Faccia di Cazzo, Schumer, and former Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper (more about him later).  The LCS gang is getting nervous though, because AG Bill Barr and US Attorney John Durham (think of them as the Tom Dewey and Elliot Ness of this saga), are actively investigating all the wrongdoing perpetrated by all the LCS members and associates who tried to fix the 2016 election.  The footsteps are getting closer, as Durham is expanding his probe to cover the crimes committed after the election.  They must be worried, because Comey, Rosenstein, Joseph Mifsud, Christopher Steele and Sally Yates have gone to the mattresses.  John Brennan and James Clapper are still lying their asses off on TV, but Clapper, who bears a strong resemblance to the aliens from Mars Attacks –

went on TV the other day and mistakenly uttered a little white truth, “apparently what we were supposed to have done was to ignore the Russian interference, ignore the Russian meddling and the threat that it poses to us, and oh, by the way, blow off what the then commander in chief, President Obama, told us to do …”  Uh oh, has Clapper admitted what we already knew?  Is Il Duce Obama the true Godfather of La Cosa Stupid?  Just when he thought he was out, they pulled him back in.

In the 1960’s there was a great film entitled Seven Days in May.  In the film, a General, played by Burt Lancaster, plans a coup against the President, only to be thwarted by an honest Marine Corps officer, played by Kirk Douglas.  The movie shows us just how fragile is our republic, and how easily unscrupulous forces could destroy it if honest people fail to speak up and act to save it.  As this is written, we are enmeshed in an attempted coup much more insidious than the fictional one in Seven Days in May.  The coup in the film was to be carried out by military officers who rejected civilian rule, and who planned to prevent the media from exposing their scheme.  It was easy to tell the good guys from the bad, and it was presumed that, once the truth came out, the media would set the record straight.  The current coup against President Trump is much worse.  It’s being perpetrated by elected officials who have a duty to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, and instead are planning to destroy our founding document.  And it is being aided and abetted by a corrupt media, that permits the Democrat perpetrators of this coup to lie, and then swears to their lies.  Democrats were trying to impeach Donald Trump even before he was inaugurated.  They’re relentless.  Stormy Daniels was going to get Trump, but her case got dismissed, she was ordered to pay Trump money, and her lawyer’s going to jail.  Michael Cohen was going to get Trump, but he went to jail.  Manafort would squeal on him, only he didn’t.  Bob Mueller would provide the evidence to impeach Trump, only there wasn’t any.  No Russian collusion, no obstruction of justice; no problem.  Now the infamous Ukranian phone call.  Aha!  We’ve got him now.  Donald Trump did collude, this time with Ukranians, who he tried to force to investigate Joe Biden and son, to to get foreign help for the 2020 election.  Sounds bad, right?  Except it’s all bullshit.  It must be confusing too, because even noted constitutional scholar Nancy Pelosi can’t tell Ukranians from Russians.  Nancy, she of the loose dentures, still claims the Russians (bitter enemies of the Ukranians) are really behind this collusion “scandal.”  It all comes back to the newest Democrat scheme to rid themselves of Donald Trump.  Those rascally Democrats have bought a new impeachment kit from the Acme Impeachment Company.

This time, it’s the August 13th so-called whistle-blower complaint.  I say so-called, because the blower is really not a whistle-blower in law.  Whistle-blowers provide first-hand information of wrongdoing.  This blower, reportedly a CIA operative, has no first-hand information.  No problem though, because the CIA Inspector General obligingly amended the whistle-blower application to waive that requirement.  What this CIA blowjob alleges is the plot for a new movie; Seven Lies in August.  (There are far more than seven lies.  I had to pare it down).   The lies:  1. The President used his power to solicit help from a foreign government to aid in the 2020 election.  No.  The President long ago announced that the Justice Department is investigating what prompted the bogus Mueller investigation, and Attorney General Barr has U.S. Attorney Durham doing just that.  The favor Trump asked for was for this investigation.  The reference to Biden’s son likewise was proper because a President named Bill Clinton signed an agreement with Ukraine which requires them to assist in criminal investigations. (Irony is a bitch).     2.  Trump pressured Zelensky to help his reelection campaign.  No.  The released transcript proves it.  “If you could look into it” isn’t pressure, and Ukraine says there was no pressure.  3.  Trump ordered the Ukranians to turn over the DNC servers.  No.  Read the transcript.  No such request, and don’t look now, but the Justice Dept. is still investigating the servers.                     4.  Trump tied the completion of the Biden investigation to US aid to Ukraine.  Not even close.  The subject of money wasn’t mentioned, and Ukraine was not even aware funds were being delayed till months after the phone call.   5.  Trump tried to restrict access to the transcript.  He put the transcript in secure storage, as have previous presidents, and then, Hello, he released it to the public without redaction.  6.  The Ukranians were led to believe that they would get no meeting or phone call from Trump unless they investigated Biden.  This is an out and out lie.  Trump had already called the Ukranian president when he was elected, and again, read the damn transcript.  He never demanded an investigation.         7.  Adam Schiff’s statements.  Schiff for Brains’ performance could be entitled, The Dance of the Seven Lies.  Schiff made up his own transcript, “We’ve been very good to your country.  Very good.  No other country has done as much as we have.  But you know what, I don’t see much reciprocity here.  You know what I mean?  I hear what you want.  I have a favor I want from you through.  And I’m going to say this only seven times, so you better listen good.  I want you to make up dirt on my political opponent, understand? And don’t call me again, I’ll call you when you’ve done what I asked.”  Unlike in the movie, the media won’t confront any Democrat on any of their lies, and we seem to be painfully short of honest Kirk Douglas types.  That this latest plot comes from the CIA is telling, but not surprising.  John Brennan is up to his bald pate in the coup, which he undertook for Hillary and Il Duce Obama in 2016.  The Dems have done everything they accuse Trump of doing, including colluding with Russia, Ukraine, Australia, Malta, Italy, Britain, and who knows what others to affect an election.  Biden actually bragged about getting his son’s prosecutor fired, but he’s beyond reproach.  Trump’s done nothing wrong, and he’s guilty without evidence.  This is a race.  Democrats must remove Trump before AG Barr nails the whole dirty Democrat cabal for their 2016 crimes; the greatest political scandal ever.  It’s a shame the news media is going to miss it.

According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the last known witch trial took place in 1782.  That’s not true.  There’s one going on right now.  Since 2016, Democrats have resurrected the witch trials that made Salem, Massachusetts famous.  Of course, President Trump is their latter day witch.  The parallels are striking.  In 1692, two young girls in Salem exhibited strange behavior that included fits, screaming, odd sounds, throwing things, contorting their bodies, and complaints of biting and pinching sensations.  The girls attributed their behavior to witchcraft.  (Last week’s U.N. speech by Greta Thunberg is a recent example of such behavior).  Officials demanded that the girls identify the witches, so they provided names.  The accused were hauled into court, where the judges admitted “spectral evidence,”  testimony that the spirits of the defendants appeared to the witnesses in dreams and attacked them.  Those who confessed escaped severe punishment.  When the defendants testified, their alleged victims writhed, whimpered, and babbled in the gallery, seemingly providing evidence of the specter’s demonic presence.  Minister Cotton Mather warned of the dubious value of spectral evidence.  The warning went unheeded, until Massachusetts Governor Phipps’ wife was accused.  Then the rules of evidence changed.  Sound familiar?  However, it was too late for the 19 people executed for witchcraft.  Years later, the Massachusetts General Court apologized and declared the trials unlawful.  It is believed that the two girls who set off the hysteria blamed the others to excuse their own misbehavior.  Fast forward 324 years to 2016.  Donald Trump is elected President, and Democrats begin to exhibit strange behaviors.  They have fits of screaming, they utter odd sounds, they throw things, tear their hair, contort their bodies, and complain of chronic pain, which they attribute to Donald Trump’s election, which they claim was brought about by Trump’s collusion with the Devil.  Satan, Putin, whatever.   The Democrats proceed to denounce the “witches” who were in league with Trump, and to put them on trial.  Flynn, Papadopolous, Manafort, Stone, etc.  Like the defendants in Salem, the accused may escape punishment if they admit that they did the Devil’s bidding, but those who fail to confess are condemned.  As in Salem, our government appointed a special magistrate to investigate the demonic possessions.  But even though the magistrate, Cotton Mueller, changed the rules of evidence, he was unable to prove that the President colluded with the Devil to gain his position or obstructed justice.  However, the aggrieved Democrats persisted in their complaints of pain and suffering at the hands of President Trump.  Clearly, Trump was still bewitching them, and he had to be stopped.  Exorcisms were the fashion in the 17th Century.  Today’s Democrats have substituted impeachment for exorcism.  The result is the same.  Either way the Devil is removed.  The Dems have made a number of accusations they say prove Trump is a witch.  As in Salem, they accused him of sexual misconduct.  They complained about Trump’s having women sign non-disclosure agreements.  (Mimicking the 1692 testimony of the slave Tituba, who testified that she was forced to sign the Devil’s book).  The latest accusation involves a congratulatory telephone call between the President and newly elected Ukranian President Zelensky.  A nameless, faceless “whistleblower,” a/k/a saboteur, who has been identified as a CIA agent (a former underling of John Brennan, whose strange behaviors instigated the Russian collusion hoax) alleged that, in the phone call, the President “crossed the line.”  We were told that Trump demanded that Zelensky give him dirt on Joe Biden, or else Ukraine wouldn’t get foreign aid.  That turned out not to be true.  We were told that Trump mentioned Biden 8 times in the call.  That wasn’t true either.  When pressed, Trump declassified and released a transcript of the phone call.  The transcript shows that the two talked about Europeans having  to do more to help Ukraine.  Zelensky wanted to buy more weapons.  Zelensky told Trump he wants to drain his own swamp in Ukraine, and it was who Zelensky made mention of Rudy Giuliani.  Trump asked Zelensky to do a favor, and look into the Crowdstrike company, which was hired by the DNC to inspect Hillary Clinton’s private server.  Crowdstrike announced it had found Russian hacking, and reportedly has the server, which the DNC refused to let the FBI inspect.  (Uh huh, and Trump is colluding with Ukraine?)  Trump offered the help of Giuliani and the Justice Department and told Zelensky, “I would like to get to the bottom of it.”  (Some extortion, huh?)   The President also mentioned the firing of the Ukranian prosecutor who was investigating Joe Biden’s son, right after Joe Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in aid.  Biden bragged about this on video.   Trumps asked Zelensky to “look into it.”  For this, the Democrats are screaming, contorting their bodies and accusing the President of perpetrating “a typical mob boss shakedown” of Zelensky.  The alleged victim, Mr. Zelensky, says he did not then, nor does he now feel pressured in any way.  He’s obviously been bewitched by Trump as well.  They dragged the Director of National Intelligence into the Intelligence Committee run by Adam Schiff (for brains).  Schiff for brains made an opening statement condemning Trump for threatening Zelensky, demanding that he get him dirt on his political opponent Joe Biden, and ordering Zelensky not to call back until he had done what he was ordered to do.  Schiff’s media accomplices writhed, whimpered, and babbled on the air.  None of what Schiff said happened during the call.  Read the transcript.  Schiff for brains apparently was giving spectral evidence.  Perhaps he dreamed up the schiff that he’s peddling for truth.   It turns out a group of Dem Senators did write to Ukrainian officials to demand that they cooperate with Cotton Mueller to get Trump, ordering Ukraine to report any attempt by the President to hinder their witch hunt.  Democrats had the report of the phone call in August, they have done this now only because Trump’s poll numbers are up.  They have to knock him down.  Once again, Democrats are blaming their own misbehavior on “a witch.”  One thing is sure.  When this witch hunt ends, the Democrats won’t issue an apology.

This week, Democrats in Congress engaged in public child abuse.  They invited young climate activists to demand drastic actions be taken to avert a climate disaster.  One featured witness was 17 year old Jamie Margolin, who told the Committee members, “I don’t think a lot of people in Congress understand the conversations that are happening every day in American high schools.”  Jamie explained that young people fear for their futures.  “We are ‘Generation GND’, the generation of the Green New Deal.  The Green New Deal is a new chapter in American history.  Transforming our culture into one that celebrates and enables radical climate action.”  “I want the entirety of congress, in fact the whole US government, to remember the fear and despair that my generation lives with every day, and I want you to hold onto it.  How do I even begin to convey to you what it feels like to know that within my lifetime the destruction that we have already seen from the climate crisis will only get worse?”  “Everyone who will walk up to me after this testimony saying I have such a bright future ahead of me, will be lying to my face.  It doesn’t matter how talented we are, how much work we put in, how many dreams we have, the reality is, my generation has been committed to a planet that is collapsing.”  Jamie founded the group Zero Hour.  The group’s website says, “Zero Hour will educate communities around the country and abroad about the systems of oppression.”  Zero Hour names as root causes of climate change Capitalism, Racism, Sexism, Colonialism.  WOW.  In these pages, I often have noted that the Green movement is the new face of global Marxism/Socialism.  Zero Hour proves my point.  The group’s founding principles prove that “climate activism” is a proxy for the radical Left.  Here are some of its principles: “Black lives matter.  Queer and trans people must be heard.  Rape culture must be dismantled.  People with disabilities must be included and respected.  Marginalized cultures must be treated with dignity.  Transformative justice is true justice.”  It’s even more overt.  Jamie’s group says, capitalism, colonialism, racism, and patriarchy have led to climate change, therefore we must shift our culture away from these systems.  Now, I have no objection to Jamie’s activism or her zeal to make a difference.  These are laudable traits.  I just think she’s being used by nefarious forces that care far more about political subjugation than about the climate.  So let me address  an open letter to Jamie.

Dear Jamie,

I strongly disagree with the drastic actions that you and your group would impose upon me and your fellow Americans in the guise of a cure for climate change.  Many of the positions you take are laudable, for instance, protecting the rights of marginalized people and groups.  I share that goal.  However, it is apparent that you are being used by political forces that do not share your benevolent intentions.  This is not your fault.  You are one of the victims of educational malpractice, by the system, as Zero Hour would say, “also known as ‘the State,'” which has refused to teach you about history, and has indoctrinated you with the notion that diversity extends merely to skin pigmentation, and not to opinions.  One of the founding principles of your group is,”We will be humble and learn from each other.”  That’s a good start, but by “each other” I hope you include people outside your group, because one is truly humble only when one is willing to consider what Al Gore might call inconvenient truths.  I certainly understand your fear for the future.  But you should understand that yours is not the first generation to live with such fears.  17 year olds in 1941 faced destruction in their lifetimes.  Millions of them died before the war was over.  When I was a child, we lived with the prospect of imminent nuclear war.  In school, we practiced sheltering under our desks, and we had a bomb shelter in the basement.  In 1962, we came within a hair’s breath of an end far more frightening than a rise in temperatures and melting ice.  You’ve accepted the Green New Deal prediction of climate disaster within 10 or 12 years.  This no doubt feeds your fear and despair, but understand that doomsday hyperbole is not new to your generation.  You respect scientists, and so do I, but their previous apocalyptic predictions have been wrong.  At the first Earth Day in 1970 there were predictions of world-wide famine and the exhaustion of all fossil fuels by 2000.  In the 1970’s scientists predicted a “new Ice Age.” Those things didn’t happen.  “Scientists” keep telling you every month of every year is “the hottest on record.”  The historical record refutes this.  It was much hotter during the Holocene Maximum about 7,000 years ago.  You are led to believe that climate change is a new phenomenon.  It’s not.  17,000 years ago, glacial ice 5 times higher than the Space Needle covered your city of Seattle.  14,000 years ago it melted.  More recently, we experienced “the Little Ice Age,” a 500 year period of extreme cold.  These climate changes were not caused by Capitalism, Racism, Sexism, or Colonialism, any more than the recent changes have been.  Don’t get me wrong.  I admire your dedication.  What I disagree with is your conclusion that the only way to deal with environmental concerns is to destroy our form of government; to trade our liberty for the tyranny of a totalitarian dictatorship, because if you get what you’re asking for, that is your future.  Our system isn’t perfect, it’s just the best flawed system in the world.  The American form of government, that you would scrap has remedied environmental crises far more pressing than a one degree rise in temperature in 100 years.  In the 1970’s, we were using leaded gasoline, and were expelling lead into the atmosphere.  We ended that.  Air pollution was so bad that we had acid rain falling from the skies, and water pollution was so bad that a river in Ohio caught fire.  We fixed it.  We can debate the significance of CO2 levels.  But an inconvenient truth is that  after rising for decades, CO2 levels in the U.S. have declined in recent years to the lowest measured since 1950.  You may say we can do better, and maybe you’re right, but remember that the CO2 levels weren’t reduced by communists marching with signs, but rather by the same capitalists and the same government that you want to replace.  In short Jamie, if you succeed in trading our form of government for your socialist utopia, you will find out what fear and despair really are.  Don’t stop trying to make things better, but look and think before you leap.