Climate Change? Nahhh ...

And the what to do about it part is what grates on me.
One extreme wants fewer regulations, which is largely a bad idea considering the track record of large corporations. Especially ones with the potential to do a lot of environmental damage, like mining companies.
The other side seems to think modern society is evil and we should roll back our technology to a time when everything was simpler and cleaner, like the early 1800s. Or, they want to scrap everything that makes modern society possible without a transition plan in place or any concept of what it would do to Western economies or our way of life. Or maybe they do have an idea and that's what they really want, because Western society is bad and its denizens should feel bad.
Isn't there a happy medium somewhere? On this issue, why do we seem to be stuck between evil, heartless assholes on one side and evil, pretentious assholes on the other?

 

A third party would be nice. We could rotate the two-on-one bashing as needed, then work for compromise.

 

The only problem is, a third party is likely to come from a disgruntled faction of one of the existing two parties and not from the rational 50 percent of voters in the middle of the spectrum. Like Democrat-Republican-Tea Party, if I had to put money on how it would happen in the next 10 years.
So you really would end up with one-party rule instead of the three-party system we want.

 

Sad but true.

Look at the bright side, though: a new way to corrupt the system!

 

My contention is that guns are a greater problem than Muslims.

 

The answer is IV: Bush saying "Major combat operations are over in Iraq. The Battle of Iraq has been won."

 

Mission accomplished! And if you like your doctor, you can keep him.

 

Which you can. You just have to pay more for him. Which is what was already in the system with insurance companies when they would drop doctors from their network.

 

I know. But that's the go-to response. The idea that the ACA was the reason people had to switch doctors seems silly. The insurance companies control everything.

 

Solar power!?! It'll suck up all the sunlight and kill the plants!

North Carolina citizenry defeat pernicious Big Solar plan to suck up the Sun

 

The local solar power magnate:

 

The Public Service Commission in Alabama is a paid subsidiary of Alabama Power. The level of donations to the Commission members is obscene. They rubberstamp anything that the power company wants. Our solar regulations are knuckle draggingly primitive compared to neighboring Georgia. It's horrible.

AlaPower was recently lit up by consumers because they had gotten a 5% rate hike approved to cover increased fuel costs. Fuel, of course, went down. The public started raising hell, so the power company decreased that increase to 3%.

The Public Service Commission Chairman praised Alabama Power for their "rate cut".