Day: January 4, 2016

White Conservative Terrorists have attacked a federal building in Oregon and are illegally occupying it. Why?

They’re apparently upset at the conviction and upcoming jail sentences of a couple of fellow domestic terrorists for arson. They believe that the federal government has no constitutional authority to own land, that national parks are essentially illegal, and that men like them have a God-given right to mine, log and otherwise destroy whatever forest land they want.

The undisputed facts are that the terrorists have now illegally trespassed onto property that they do not own and have no claim to. I want these white conservative terrorists to be treated as with they were African Americans. I want these white conservative terrorists to be treated as if they were ISIS. They are to surrender to federal and/or local authorities immediately and evacuate the refuge forthwith. Any provocation shall be met with deadly force, and to be sure, a provocation is pointing a gun at anyone. Failure to comply shall eventually lead to the recapture of the refuge by federal and/or local authorities, during which time all terrorists shall be either killed or incapacitated.

People pay a lot of attention to the right track wrong direction number. They shouldn't. It no longer has any meaning. If it did, President Obama would not have been reelected, for you see 58% of the respondents saying the country was going in the wrong direction at the same time 53% of the voters reelected the President. No, what that number means now is 100% opposition from all members of the President's opposition party, coupled with those liberals, left leaning independents, progressives, and Democrats who are upset with Republican obstruction and growing income inequality and the power of corporations and billionaires, and Donald Trump. For example, I personally approve of the President's job performance, and will vote for the Democrat in the fall, but I think things in the country are going in the wrong direction. So the value of this statistic as a predictor for the presidential election is nil. It is more instructive to look at how everyone says they are doing personally. An end-of-year Economist/YouGov poll found that 63% of Americans surveyed said it was a pretty good year for themselves and their families. Those numbers suggest that the Democrat is still well positioned to win.