Forget fear and loathing. The US election inspires projectile vomiting
On the liberal left, tragically, we do not have Bernie Sanders, who would have dispatched Trump’s populist pretensions with a wrist flick.
But no, representing the side of tolerance, good government and cosmopolitanism, we have the very epitome of Democratic party elitism, a woman who labeled half of Trump’s supporters “deplorables”, a politician who is so robotic that any efforts to analyze her motives risk the charge of anthropomorphism.
Consider her statement on the Standing Rock occupation in North Dakota, which could have been issued by an unmanned typewriter.
As soldiers and police bore down on the protesters, she urged all parties – tribal peoples and the pipeline company that threatens their culture and habitat – “to find a path forward that serves the broadest public interest”.
What is she supposed to say?
Like Obama, Hillary wants the pipeline to go ahead, and she is right.
Native American cultures are primitive anachronisms and Native Americans are not snail darters whose tribal environments a silly congress has insisted must be preserved at all costs.
Cemeteries and holy objects get moved all the time to make way for highways, rail lines, and housing developments.
There is no reason to indulge indigenous peoples or their cultures one bit further than we would indulge the sensitivities of American Jews or Christians, Buddhists or Muslims.
Had we ever seriously intended to do anything of the kind the continent would still be inhabited by nobody but three to five million hunters, food gatherers, and stone age agriculturalists.
Is Mark Ruffalo an Indian?
Maybe a bit on his Mom's side.
Wouldn't be unusual.
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