There is a difference between a factual and true statement, a false statement, and an opinion without fact to support it. His statements and conclusions are fully unsupported by any fact.
There are lots of people in California, and lots of left wing, right wing, and moderate organizations.
California energy policies have been the most progressive in the nation, and with any progressive legislation mistakes are made.
Deregulation without control was a mistake, as we found out. However, who knew that we would have an "energy crisis" so close to de-regulation. We just happened to have a natural gas shortage, and we just happened to see record windfall profits of the energy companies as a result.
Coincidence, no doubt.
California is an environment friendly state. That is one reason many people love living here. People who hate the tax rate....they leave. I don't understand your obsession with the way California does its business.
For the author to make unsupported claims he is just another man spouting opinion, as do you, as do I, as do others.
So what?
Do you understand what fundamentalism is? Fundamentalism is a way of thought that perceives everything in black and white terms, very homogeneous among members of the groups they belong to, and typically on the basis of a religious interpretation.
The author is a fundamentalist in his thought, and if you can't see that, I don't know how to educate you on that.
Do you know that nearly all fanatics are also fundamentalists of sorts?
Now, let's imagine the photo of the author and what he wrote, and the organization he fronts.
Would you imagine him to be:
Gay or straight?
Hanging with gay friends, or straight friends.
Drinking alcohol or drinking wheat grass juice.
Belonging to a fundamentalist Christian religion, or be a Buddhist.
Owning a Harley Davidson or an electric car.
Wearing leather boots or wearing Birkenstocks.
Do you really think he could be a gay man, practicing Buddhism, driving an electric car, wearing Birkenstocks? Honestly, do you think so?
The point, his line of thinking is not diverse, but very predictable and very fundamentalist in nature.
I have a distrust of those who are 100% certain they are right, blame the "other side" for all the problems, and have a need to belong to fringe organizations.
People who are predictable, think predictably according to a creed and doctrine.....not based on real time of a particular situation.
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Wait a minute, how is that statement false? I'm not saying that statement is true, it might be purely objective on his part, but how is that statement false. See you can find 10 people in the bay area that say they have more freedoms in CA then anywhere then I can find 10 people in the bay area and they might say their freedoms are restrictive so what does this prove?
It doesn't prove the statement false and it doesn't prove the statement true. We can make an argument for both sides of the coin here. But you can't categorically come out and say he is wrong. Are there not a lot of leftist organizations out there? Are CA energy policies not restrictive on people and corporations?
See you are making a straw man argument here. You can find 10 people then I can find 10 people then you can find 10 more and then I can find 10 more and at the end of the day what have we solved. All we have proven is that we disagree on the issue. But he backed up his opinion with talking points. You might disagree with him but that doesn't make him wrong does it not? It sounds like you are not affording him his first amendment rights. We are all entitled to our opinions but I can't see in any way shape or form how that statement that you used is at all extreme. You are going to have to do better then that.
