One of the problems I have with the liberal mindset is their insistence on "doing something" when an issue that they support is discussed. A major example of this is global warming; the left carps that we must "do something" to reduce greenhouse gases or the world will end tomorrow. This is a deeply held conviction by libs in spite of the fact that science has many differing opinions on the subject. As a side note, liberals knock Christians for believing in an entity based on blind faith yet believe that global warming is gospel. Go figure.
Petroleum is another and this Rolling Stone piece in particular seems to have the Green's all jacked up.
Explain this to me; why do the lefties get so worked up about issues that may or may not occur such as the examples above and not get excited about an issue that is known to be a looming crisis.
I'm talking about social security reform. We know for a fact that the SS trust fund will be running a deficit in the next decade and will run out in approximately thirty years. Everyone who has any say in the matter knows that we must act soon to amend the way SS is run or we risk some serious economic consequences.
We have no definitive proof that global warming exists and if it did, when the effects will become irreversible and disastrous. The same with oil, we just do not know if the worlds oil supply is even near being tapped. New deposits are discovered almost daily.
It's a malady of the liberal mind that they can't focus on the really important known issues like terrorism and HIV throughout the world (both issues that Bush has put front and center and backed with might or money), but constantly harp on the unknowns that may never be.
Thursday, April 14, 2005
We Must Take Action
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Comparing faith in God to faith in our environment decaying is a bit far-fetched. There is certainly much more evidence that _something_ is happening to our environment, whether it will mean the end of the world is pretty much impossible to tell. Certainly a hole in the ozone (which, has since receded) is a good example of this.
Re: SS -- I'm a Democrat and I agree it's a mountain out of a molehill. I want to wish that Bush wouldn't say that "private accounts" are required before discussions can happen, since it creates a culture of partisanship. But then again, I also know that in business, sometimes you have to pull REALLY hard in one direction to get any movement -- even when you know full well that achieving 100% of what you _say_ may not be what you _want_.
With that said, I see Bush's inability to budge on SS as the same many environmentalists inability to accept that cars getting 30MPH or better oil drilling techniques can help. It is the same concept: pull hard in the direction you want to go. The greater magnitude of that pull, the more likely you'll get some movement.
Unfortunately, what is missing is a reasonable public that is willing to entertain the in-betweens, which I think is our duty as a "purple nation". It's up to us to change the culture!
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