Let's pretend GOP policy were driven by a RECOGNITION climate change is real, and their solution is: harvest earth's resources for a few thousand billionaires and let ~7b people die.
How would that look different from what we see?
As they stopped having those things, you'd just let them not have them.
Those who still could for now: cool, ok, fine.
How would it look different?
Consumer protections, water protection, air protection, a joke. A literal joke.
What would look different?
You'd start talking about the basic functions of government in a healthy society as if it were the enemy.
You'd build walls and many many prisons, for profit.
What would look different?
You'd equate hard work and efficiency with moral virtue. You'd make it seem that life must be earned.
You'd equate wealth with having earned the MOST life, and the MOST moral virtue.
What looks different?
You'd spend more on armies than any other nation ever.
You'd militarize your police.
What looks different?
If you could find a sect of a religion that believed that apocalypse was coming, in which they, the few righteous, would live in a perfect gated community while everyone else perished in fire, you'd for sure make friends with them.
Good good friends.
Open borders? Globalist! Extremist!
Free health care? Communist! Extremist!
Affordable education? Socialist! Extremist!
Tax the rich? THEFT! THEFT! THEFT!
End carbon emissions? Endangering our way of life!
"Our."
"Life."
I am not.
But I *am* saying *if* that's what they're doing, I don't see how it would look any different from what they *are* doing.
So to hell with them.
It's perhaps the most extremist and anti-human ideology the world has ever seen, ever.
Yes, I'm aware of the other ones.
We aren't extremist. They are.
They're fine going off the cliff at 190 mph.
The brakes are not extremist in that scenario, nor is a sharp turn.
The cliff is extremist.
Answer: I don't care what they intend.
I care what they're doing.
Global murder is extreme. We should say so.
But it doesn't matter.
I'm not proposing a darkened room where a cabal of shadowy figures plots global murder and planetary theft for the ultra wealthy.
I'm saying we can see the GOP enacting exactly that.
Who cares about how/why?
Instead, watch what they're doing.
Murdering the biosphere for cash. Generational planetary theft.
Stop the extremists.
We can be plenty horrified and opposed simply by what we see in the open.
What would look different?
It doesn’t matter if billionaires have no central conspiracy at all—in fact I doubt they do. Also: so what?
We see what we see: Harvesting the planet for a few and letting the rest die
What would look different?
Honestly, fuck this entire party and their anti-human nonsense.