Today's Talking Point

[lollardfish]

Conservation of the environment should be a conservative issue, shouldn't it? If it's not, one of those two words has got to be changed! Mercury in the walleye is just not acceptable.

Comments

One would think

[bodi-kat.livejournal.com]

the two would go hand-in-hand, but "Conservative", when it comes to politics, doesn't mean what it's supposed to mean ...

Maybe we should lobby them and force them to make conservation issues part of their platform!

They've gone and called a federal election on us here and in spite of the fact that he's got a snowball's chance in hades of being elected, i'm going to vote for the Green Party candidate for my ridindg.

You know ...

[bodi-kat.livejournal.com]

One could really have a lot of fun coming up with more appropriate terms for the political "conservative" ...

Hmm ...

[zinzinzinnia.livejournal.com]

Well... actually, they use different words: Conservation and Conservatism.

But yeah.

[mia-mcdavid.livejournal.com]

See, problem is, political conservatives are for the status quo. The status quo has been to rape and despoil the Earth for basically all of human history. So, it's actually progressive to be in favor of conservation.

I keep thinking we're like a bacterium that has gotten out of hand. Eventually, our host has to either succumb or smash us down. Not looking forward to either . . .