Originally Posted by Cosmoline
We're clearly not mortifying our flesh with hairshirts and whips enough! We need to be PUNISHED for living in the US, otherwise we shall be IMPURE in the eyes of the PC.
I spent years listening to this bravo sierra from the far left enviros. They don't view any of these matters rationally. For them it's a matter of RELIGION. A matter of GUILT and PUNISHMENT. This cultish attitude has done an enormous amount to alienate people and harm the environmental movement. The clowns who foist a "hollier than thou" attitude can watch my broad American buttocks ride away.
Well the analogy of environmentalism to religion is an age old rightist dodge of the fact that Americans deserve more PUNISHMENT for the simple reason that we are more GUILTY. (To use your system of capitalization.) Of course guilt is just an old fashioned word for RESPONSIBILITY. Do you think there is something wrong with us taking responsibility for our actions, both as a nation and as individuals? Do you not think that the first step toward correcting wrong behavior is recognizing that it
is wrong, then resolving to correct it in the future? Or are you completely unable to accept any criticism, even when it's meant to be constructive? Do you think your country is too weak and immature to accept responsibility? That is not a patriotic attitude!