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Must-read of the day: Mark Morford’s “BushCo wants you to know: Caring about the environment is for pinko terrorist idiots”

The GOP has succeeded, woefully, viciously, in demonizing nature. Right now, to love our unlogged forests or to wish air quality to be protected or to hope our leaders don’t allow monster crony oil companies to jam their snarling proboscises into our country’s nature preserves for a handful of crude is now to be thought of as a dreadlocked Greenpeace-Earth First!-tofu lover.

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Here’s how successful the GOP’s antienvironment brainwashing has been: With the exception of Dennis Kucinich, not one of the major Demo presidential candidates has truly focused on environmental issues in the debates or in their campaign speeches, for fear of being labeled “too liberal.” Thanks to the GOP, to talk too much about the health of the planet now is to be thought of as anticapitalist and antiprogress and an outright traitor to the American causes of money-uber-alles and the-world-is-our-sandbox.

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This is the GOP credo: You’re either with us 100 percent, or you’re a commie hippie homo who should move to France.

The rest is fabulous.