re: #624 jcm

Watermelons. Green on the outside, red on the inside.

If you start digging into the green movement you’ll find a lot of the same people in the nuclear freeze movement, and lots of ties with various extreme leftists and organizations.

Compare the long term goals of these leftist and the solutions proposed by many greens and again you’ll find a lot of correlation in solutions, state control or more and more.

I’m not at all against responsible stewardship of the environment.

What I am against is selling Liberty to others who think they know better than the rest of us. I’m against keeping the 3rd world from lifting themselves out of their misery for the misguided idea of the noble savage.

You mention the Greens and extreme leftists. Each party has its extremes and yet still manages (at least from time to time) to do the right thing despite those extremes. It is not unreasonable I think, to assume the average Democrat on the street is not an unmovable opponent of nuclear power. The gentlemen a few posts up mentioned CT as having a plant and I happen to know NJ and PA do as well. Those are prety Blue states. Is it possible that there is an issue at play in addition to the Democratic opposition? For example, I’ve been to Vegas maybe three times over the years and I remember the Yucca Mountain issue being in the papers. I wonder if with respect to nuclear waste, the “not in my backyard” syndrome, which has little to do with partisan politics is a big factor here.