Call This Election What It Was: A Fossil Fuel Coup

Ballot initiatives nationwide prove that the 2014 election marks a turning point, where democratic corruption, climate and clean energy become the galvanizing central issues for the 2016 elections. In many state referenda, citizens voted to overturn Citizens United, and fracking bans were victorious in Ohio, California and even, for the first time ever, in Texas.

While these power brokers have played the political long game masterfully, they have ignored the long-term damages to sustainable world resources, and have invited chaos - both economically and ecologically.

For this reason, instead of rolling over and accepting defeat, we must insist most emphatically that there is no mandate for the new majority in the US Senate to unleash the fossil fuel industry and bring on runaway global warming. The 2014 elections were rigged primarily for the sake of perpetuating the mother of all Wall Street bubbles: the carbon bubble. Scientists tell us that when this mother finally bursts, it will bring humankind to its knees, sink whole island countries, and may eventually cause the death of half or more of the species on the planet and billions of human souls.

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It's undeniable that the corporate oligarchy has performed this coup d'état almost flawlessly - pulling off a subterfuge that a few decades ago would have been impossible if not for the illegal and partisan Supreme Court decisions. Tragically, while these power brokers have played the political long game masterfully, they have ignored the long-term damages to sustainable world resources, and have invited chaos - both economically and ecologically.



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