Basic Questions We Should Demand Answers To
I’ve given up trying to argue, so let me simply ask you to give me the answers. When is it not okay for an Israeli soldier to kill a Palestinian child? When is it not okay for a police officer to kill a black man? When is it permissible to question the media? Is there ever a point where money could become a corrupting influence on politics? How corrupt does the two-party system have to be before we are justified in looking beyond it?
How ugly, violent, and decadent does America have to get before I can stop calling it the greatest country in the world? How unjust do our wars have to become before I stop supporting them? How corrupt do our leaders need to be before I can stop respecting them? How much violence and injustice must other nations endure at our hands before I raise my voice in protest? How many bombs must be dropped until we are willing to admit that they do not bring peace?
How many atmospheric scientists have to say it before you will believe we humans are causing global warming? How much warmer does it have to get for us to name the cause for it? How much environmental degradation must take place before you realize the free market has no solution for it?
How many billionaires have to take control of the environmental movement before you realize it is being co-opted, just like every movement is coopted by…