An Orwellian Note from the Sierra Club

I continue to be a member of the Sierra Club so that I can take the occasional hike, though my feelings towards the commissars who head the Sierra Club is little short of total loathing. My loathing is not that we disagree, as I strive to be tolerant about disagreement.

The issue instead is that the commissars sabotaged democracy within the Sierra Club. The Sierra Club used to have vibrant elections where different viewpoints were expressed. The elections were real elections about policy--not the rubber stamp events that typically occur when a major corporation elects a board of directors or when a leftist dictatorship holds an election. Sadly, the Sierra Club Board of Directors decided that debating real issues was not appropriate for a Sierra Club election, because some people wanted the Sierra Club to support efforts by right-wing politicians to reduce immigration in the United States and thus keep the population relatively low. Meanwhile, the Board of Directors want to walk the path of leftist political correctness with their blue/green alliance with labor. So, they made it much more difficult for non-approved candidates to become a candidate for the Board of Directors, and then proceeded to lie about their opponents in the media, and in Sierra Club meetings. The Board of Directors called their opponents "racist" and "far right". Peculiarly enough, I found out about these charges just after a phone call to the leader of Sierra Club dissidents, Alan Kuper. He struck me as a typical leftist pussy--not nearly the man Ann Coulter is. While he wants to keep down the population of the United States, he didn't even seem to get my ideas about how we can have ecologically useful economic growth and he certainly didn't like my idea that it would be environmentally useful to allow to chemical warfare and forbid instead huge traditional bombs.

Anyway--to get to the punchline--the envelop for this year's Sierra Club elections have the slogan "Make Democracy Work" on them.

Further note: Alan Kuper someway managed to get on the ballot this year. Last year, he had a whole slate of candidates to run with him. I shall send Alan an email and find out how he managed to get on the ballot. If he has anything interesting to say, I'll add it to this post. Alan Kuper has my full support, even if he is a leftist pussy.