Rachel Maddow: This is America's Deepwater Horizon Disaster. We all own it.

Source: Crooks And Liars

And right now, right here in Grand Isle and all along the Gulf coast there are really only three things that matter: stopping the oil from flowing; protecting the coast and the ocean from the millions of gallons of oil that have already spilled; and making sure that this never, ever happens again.

You can diagnose whether we have a functioning media in this country by whether or not the country understands that this is a vile environmental megadisaster. You can diagnose whether we have a functioning political system in this country by whether or not the result of this megadisaster is change.

Big Oil has been too rich to care about what it was putting us all at risk for. And we've been too cowardly to change direction and break free from them. If that changes because of our national disgust at this disaster, then America's political system in 2010 works. If it doesn't change, then it doesn't work.

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President Obama listen to this women.

:kick:

I'll give Ed Begley, Jr. a total pass.

And not only do we all own it, but the disaster will cost us all in some way. Of course, the Gulf coasters will bear the brunt of the trouble and cost to businesses and jobs and environment, but as fishing disappears, other meats will rise in price, other foods, and many things will cost more, things I can't even imagine right now. BP doesn't have enough net worth to pay for the cleanup alone, much less all of the claims of those affected.

From the plastic bags we use at the grocery stores, to ALL plastics, which are made with petroleum, to our gas-guzzling cars and lifestyles.

mea culpa

...for years the hippies and the greenies have been prophesying today's scenario.

Did yall listen? Will yall listen now? Nah, cheap gas rules.

However, if you think you are truly to blame, and you are not a total hypocrite
then from this day forward you will fight for this ethereal 'Change'?

Right, Rachel, and MSNBC, and GE?

Spot on, BeFree.

I was shocked by a video I watched here at D.U. that showed how Henry Ford made a hemp car that ran on hemp... This car was so scratch and dent resistant that an ax striking the car did nothing to it.

We (the people) don't own anything in this country. It has all been bought and paid for and now that they have broken it, they want us to claim responsibility?

As to being too cowardly? What was 2008, but an up swelling of people fighting against all odds to elect change? Many of us spent time and money we could ill afford to do so. Many even fought against their own families and friends to help effect that change and then they discover that the change they fought for has been brought to you courtesy of Mega Corporations!

Once again, we (the victims) are being blamed for being harmed.

No I don't own this. America doesn't own this. Corporate government owns this.

And I am at a complete and utterly despairing loss at how to fix this.

when we don't show up to protest Cheney's secret energy meetings,
and demand as loudly as the tea parties that he makes them public,
when 64% of the public supported Off Shore Oil drilling (till just now),
when the 2nd biggest party in the country's main electoral motto is "Drill, Baby, Drill",
when a Democratic President is compelled to agree to OffShore drilling (not because he supports it)
in order to come up with a compromise to get a new energy policy through the Senate,
and when you have the governor of Louisianna demanding that offshore drilling resumes,
I'd say yes, as Americans, collectively, we sure do own this.

But if the media didn't report it, it didn't happen. :shrug:

We weren't at town hall meetings shouting down Republicans,
and We didn't have our party leaders support,
and we didn't really protest George Bush's many fucked up domestic policy,
just his international ones....
But certainly you are correct, we didn't have media support,
so yeah....all the media had to do was blink for a couple of days
days before Iraq, and then we went *Poof*

So we certainly could have been less selective on our issues,
louder, and certainly more persistent and consistent.

Until then it's business as usual. Mass protest is no longer effective because if the media don't report it, it didn't happen. But organized economic boycotts of products and services can make a change.