Republican party fulfilling agenda of fossil fuel industry - Jay Moor's letter - analysis

I posted this Bozeman Chronicle letter to the editor for a couple of reasons. First, notice how he focuses in on how Republicans do all this stuff, as if there isn't another political party in D.C.. Second, his prose is stream of consciousness nonsense, with no cohesive thought, logical progression of ideas, or even paragraphs. Third, he does what leftists typically do: Identify and isolate a bogeyman, blame everything on it, and reduce complex issues down to a nonsensical sound bite.

Lastly, notice the use of terminology in the last sentence. We have supposedly moved from democracy (which we never had), to corporatocracy (which is, if true, a direct result of the leftist desire to have big government and the attendant big money in politics), to fascist oligarchy (fascism, as a political philosophy, means the direct governmental control of business, which is something the Left has wanted. Oligarchy is "government by the few, especially despotic power exercised by a small and privileged group for corrupt or selfish purposes," which is also the direct result of leftist initiatives).

I would take this sentence by sentence, but cutting through the a priori assumptions, strawmen, unsupported assertions, baseless charges, and obtuse rhetoric is just too much bother. It would be a mistake to attempt to apply a systematic critique of something that itself is unsystematic. He has written what is nothing more than the rhetorical equivalent of throwing feces.

Look at the array of things that Republicans are against and it’s like a Sunday word puzzle: what do regional governance, healthy cities, railroads, environmental regulations, truth and empathy have in common? Answer: the future price of coal, oil and gas. The negativity of any one Republican position by itself can be baffling. Who alive on this planet could be against making life better for everyone? Take a bunch of these cockeyed positions together and the pattern favors greater profits for the fossil energy industry. Try it. Filter every crazy lie and status quo preserving position through this lens. The Republican Party has abandoned our people-based electoral process, taken its golden eggs and is now playing on a different field, tilted almost vertically toward fossil energy interests without regard to the danger to all species, including the human one. There have been no debate questions about climate change, have there? And there won’t be unless some off-script citizen raises it in a town hall venue. Giving the fat cats a free hand in our elections, we’ve now concentrated political power in one industry, the fossil fuel industry. This takes us from a democracy to a corporatocracy to a fascist oligarchy.

Jay Moor