Dear Democrats:
The following is an excerpt from the journal of James Howard Kunstler. If you want to know how to make the Democratic Party relevant, then I highly recommnend you read his material and absorb its zeitgeist.
Then again, what do I know, I'm not rich, I'm just a single white straight male 33 years old with no money. Everybody else knows so much better than me.
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March 21, 2005
Now that President Bush has got permission to open up the Arcitic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, it will be interesting to see what else he has in mind to counter America's imminent collision with the Peak Oil predicament. My guess: absolutely nothing. The period after ANWAR is settled will be the time when Bush, and indeed the entire groaning apparatus of national leadership, are revealed to be detached from reality and devoid of ideas for dealing with reality.
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When it becomes evident that Bush & Company have absolutely no energy plan beyond ANWAR, the Republican majority will begin its nauseating Icarus-like freefall from the political heights. Their unworthy opposition, the Democrats, may well go with them, since none of its stars and their hirelings have offered a single credible idea about America's energy dilemma. The result of all this compounded lack of political cred is likely to produce disorder and, ultimately, some kind of extreme behavior -- either the rise of a seriously nasty jingoistic new party pandering to all those economic losers, and / or some desperate affray with one or more of the many nations who are viewed as somehow causing America's pain, whether that is Mexico, Venezuela, China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, North Korea, or, who knows, France.
..more at
http://www.kunstler.com/mags_diary13.html</snip>
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