Republicans: The Non-Renewable, Unsustainable Party

By Daniel Rigney

Let’s face it. The Republican Party is running out of energy. It is the party of non-renewable and unsustainable resources.  I’ll bet $10,000 that big coal and big oil are giving more unlimited and anonymous contributions  to the G.O.P. than to the Democrats, and that the Democrats are getting more contributions from the industries of the future, including information technology, wind, and solar.  

The Republicans are the party of nineteenth and early-twentieth century industry. They are the party of extraction. The Democrats are the party of our post-industrial, twenty-first century future.  They are the party of renewability and sustainablility and information and intelligence. Our current political conflict is ultimately not a conflict between conservatism and liberalism, between capitalism and socialism, or between religion and secularism. It is between the party of the unsustainable past and the party of the sustainable and intelligent future.

If political parties were stocks, I would invest heavily in the Democratic Party, the party of the sustainable future. I would buy and hold.

In the long run, it will be an investment in the future of our children, and in our children’s children, even unto the seventh generation.