Can someone tell me when the organized criminals of the world staged a coup d'ta t? I must have missed it. Because suddenly you have all these lobbyists and bought politicians acting agai nst the public interest. Only a few years ago they would have been seen as utter ly corrupt. When exactly did it become acceptable for a politician to pretend to represent everyone, whilst only working for a small clique of vested interests? This is essentially how the mafia used to operate, via corrupt politicians. Exce pt now the organized criminals are indistinguishable from businessmen. Or rather many businesses now appear to be operating like gangsters used to operate. Also these corrupt politicians aren't clever. They're stupid and unreflective. T hey can go on their brain dead anti-environmentalist purges, but it won't make a ny difference, because soon the chickens are going to come home to roost, and no one will be able to deny that the environmentalists were right. These anti-envi ronmentalist politicians are going to face the mother of all public backlashes w hen it becomes apparent that they were lying to the public about the seriousness of the problems we face. If they're not careful they will get lynched by the ve ry same anti-environmentalist useful idiots, that they misled. The most vengeful are normally those that got misled and wrapped up in a failed enterprise they l ater deeply regret.