The Pipeline

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I try to see both sides of this story without all the dick waving and professional protesters who want to import Green Approved Organic bottled water so they can fight to keep the Natives' tap water clean.

The GOP/Oil company side's case is an economic one.  It's a solid case.  We need this oil.  It needs to be in a pipeline instead of on trains or trucks, where it is liable to cause even worse environmental disasters.  You can protest the use of oil at all... but this is not going to be the battle that decides that issue.

The Natives' side is both environmental and about respect and sovereignty.  It is an emotional appeal.  First and foremost they want it away from the little bits of lands we have let them keep.  Secondly there is fear that the pipeline could leak and could cause major environmental damage, even to lands they no longer directly hold but have a deep historical connection to.

The environmentalists' side I have the least sympathy for or empathy with.  These people are wolves in sheeps' clothing and it is apparent by the way they have tried to take over the protests.  

Trump should have shown empathy with the Natives but allowed the pipeline to be constructed with extra safety precautions far away from the Native lands and closer to the suburbs where people support the pipeline.