[Post Change Note:
I have added the following "See Also" references at the bottom of the post:

1: Paris protests open up rift on American left, spark U.S. climate change debate

J.V.]

And very soon. Because no war, much less a Civil War, is going to do us, or the planet, any good at all.

And it seems to me that it mostly relates to two main issues:

1. Some folks want to live in ways that seem either quite ignorant, and/or, repugnant to the majority of us.

2. Money is the main impediment of not only solving most social issues, it is precisely what is in the way of doing anything to even recognize the planet needs saving, let alone getting around to fixing it.

As such, in my opinion, we must let the Right have the concession on having more local autonomy on how they live in their communities -- as in, much as I hate to admit it, being racist, or anti LGBTQ, or pro gun, or whatever else that isn't outright slavery, or abusive usage, they can do so; provided that they also recognize that everybody has the right to vote with their feet, and all communities get to know certain basic minimums of information on how all other communities, in this new Federation, are doing in conducting their business. Just so nobody gets sucker punched by a problem they could have seen coming, and done something to help ameliorate, if others had been a little more forthcoming.

They give us that and then the left gets to be rid of Capitalism, mandating a redefinition of work, as well as the elimination of money. As well as to say that this nation will then take on the responsibility of leading the rest of the world in doing what we need to do to help all of the other nations help us start cleaning things up so life can go on. As well to say to also begin the infrastructure work in order to begin the next new "Great Migration;" the one that will provide the continuing to save, population relief, logistical system, to allow us to begin our expansion to the stars.

I know that this is a lot of "I don't like" for both sides, and understandably so. Probably to the degree that it seems insufferably so, but I assure you that, however bad it might be ultimately, it will be much preferable to the alternative we will be heading for if we do anything that is short of truly revolutionary change. Because it is only truly revolutionary change that will save us now, with the time we have left; with the clock ticking as I write.

It is all related guys. Everything affects everything else, to one degree or another, so you can no longer make piecemeal changes, like so many band aids on a very beat up personage; and where said personage is only going to continue to get beat up by the mutated form that Capitalism has become. A mutation that cares only for the ever expanding amount, and flow, of money as electrons, seeking the path of least resistance. The only true value now. The very reason it now spreads toxic corruption so easily.

And it all comes down to a final, very important choice. Either you are for the continuation of life, and meaningful connections, or you are not. Either you value loving, meaningful connections more than you value profit, and personal gain, or you do not. Which will it be.

The referenced article quick list:

1:In GOP's post-election power grabs, experts see 'disturbing' trend

2:The Planet Has Seen Sudden Warming Before. It Wiped Out Almost Everything

3:Millennials Didn’t Kill the Economy. The Economy Killed Millennials

4:Millennials Aren’t Post-Consumerist, They’re Just Poor, Fed Finds

5:Video game addiction is real, rare, and poorly understood

In GOP's post-election power grabs, experts see 'disturbing' trend

The Planet Has Seen Sudden Warming Before. It Wiped Out Almost Everything

Millennials Didn’t Kill the Economy. The Economy Killed Millennials

Millennials Aren’t Post-Consumerist, They’re Just Poor, Fed Finds

[Post Note: Maybe it is rare, and maybe it is a good deal more than just that. One thing is quite probably true, however, and that is that it is poorly understood. Do you think this will be one addiction they will ever criminalize, however? Not while they're making the money on it that they are making now. J.V.]

Video game addiction is real, rare, and poorly understood

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[Post Note: We see here, illustrated only too well, exactly why you can no longer do either "Liberal," or "Progressive" reform, a few measures at at time, here and there; even if for all for the right reasons, of course.

We want to provide incentive to not use bad fuels, even as we use that money, hopefully, for further investments in carbon reduction improvements. But that quickly runs into the broadside of economic reality that blasts out from all of the unintended effects that a change in a complex system can have; especially on consumers already strapped by social systems already tax starved because the corporations want only the rights of citizenship, and hardly ever any of the responsibilities. Which is also why regressive user taxes are one of the few options municipalities still have to do any new revenue now with.

This supposed "Rift" would vanish in an instant if Liberals, or Progressives for that matter, would recognize that Capitalism cannot be "reformed" any longer. It's inherent obsolescence now makes that an ever increasing impossibility. If there is to be truly effective change at all now, it has to be fundamental change, and fully integrated with a new definition of how we want to do social household; one where we also recognize that a money based economy cannot handle the demands that a nation, that must mobilize itself completely, to meet the challenge, will have to face as it deals with extreme weather events, and the increasing chaos around the world because of that; as well as the ever present chaos of an out of date operating system, still making things worse with its dangerous competitions for markets, and resources, and technological dominance. J.V.]