Okay, I just realized how long this thread is and I responded to something on the first page. I am overwhelmed and I think I won´t read the rest of the thread… so take this for my opinion and I am out of this again.
Rubio is too green.
How can someone be "too green" in a world that gets destroyed a bit more every day?
Seconded. And… from what I gather over here in Germany: Many, many people are fed up of the unlimited neo-liberalism and corporate influence that seem to drive so many important political decisions. Politicians, not only the US, also here in Germany consistently and I think in full consciousness bring up a ton of decisions that directly violate our constitutions. More surveillance, more power to big companies, more destruction of our all environment, more and more trade agreements that reduce environmental standards by mostly only serving big corporations that do not think a day more into the future than their greediness for lots and lots of $$$ can see and more and more outright violation of the basic human rights that form the base of each democracy.
What gives me hope tough: More and more people stand up against it and remind politicians of their mission. Here in Germany… and in the US where quite some people as to what I read work on finding ways to impeach Donald Trump. I think thats something that would be good to do with Angela Merkel as well, but unlike Trump, she at least does not own a huge company that she directly benefits with her political decisions.
What is needed is a global shift. And its starting already. I see what we see here is the end of capitalism as we know it. It just happens to be after the end of what people called communism (but wasn´t).
So I for my case diligently direct the money and energy I have into initiative that are about to create sustainability, recently becoming a member of the first and only public bank I know of that does not ask for interests for authorized overdraft limits anymore starting to break out of the interest madness that for pure mathematical reasons can not work indefinitely. And support charities and petitions which aim for manifesting change.
So or so… nothing of this directly has to do anything with PlaneShift.