Why do pundits of the right fear young climate, gun activists?

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She was sneered at in a Trump tweet last week, but 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg made her case Friday in a one-on-one talk with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and came away saying: "He's obviously not doing enough."

What foundation does she have to speak truth to power? Answer: 500,000 people turned out for the climate march in Montreal. The PM and Canada's Green Party leader Elizabeth May were supporting players.

"Impossible to capture scale," said McGill University student (Garfield High '17) Keenan Simpson, emailing pictures to a friend back here.

The world's right-wing pundits are finding it impossible to capture and demean the message of Greta Thunberg, just as they were flummoxed last year by Parkland, Florida, massacre survivors David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez.

It's not for lack of name-calling. The awful Laura Ingraham has likened Thunberg to young people from the horror film "Children of the Corn." Michael Knowles of Daily Wire, on a Fox News program, called her "a mentally ill Swedish child who is being exploited by her parents." (Fox apologized.)

The conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza even likened the blond Swedish kid to the Nazi's ideal wholesome master race specimens pictured in Nazi propaganda minister Dr. Joseph Goebbels' 1930s propaganda posters.

Why the vicious stuff? Because the kids have a credibility that is impossible to discredit. The right's usual background smears do not work. As well, the young folk are credible witnesses to awful things happening.

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[NCjack]

1. With the exception of adolescent Donny, young people's minds are filled

with altruistic ideas. The prospects of what they might accomplish causes fear in old GOPers.

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2. Reason (or lack thereof) certainly does not explain it.

Brain imaging has revealed profound differences in the structure of the brain. Most notably, in conservatives the amygdala (the seat of fear-response) is considerably larger and more active.

What seems innocuous to us evokes FEAR (or a perceived threat) in the "conservative" brain. Their brains are more prone to fear response.

[NEOBuckeye]

3. Right-wing pundits are just bullies with microphones.

They know their goose is cooked b/c the younger generations are turning out to be much better educated and far more savvy about the world than their Faux Noise-addled audience ever was. The younger generations recognize bullies for what they are, and they have no problem standing up to them as Greta Thunberg, as well as David Hogg and other Sandy Hook survivors have demonstrated.

Ingraham and D'Souza are little more than loudmouthed bullies like their beloved idiot wannabe king, Trump, with nothing else to stand on other than hate for hate's sake. They thrive on the ignorance and the gullibility of their audience. Their worst fear is that the time will come when no one gives a damn about what they have to say, because they are seen for what they truly are.

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4. Lashing out at everyone and everybody for they know their effectiveness is shrinking day ...

by day. Too many lies and corruption.