a response from aiteacher:
aiteacher
When my grandfather, Charles Sheldon, a man from Vermont, an avid hunter, a wealthy and highly educated man, spent over a year in the wild alone in Alaska mapping out McKinley National Park (now Denali as he originally requested) for consideration as a national park, he had capitalists like Donald Trump in mind. Sheldon, his friend Teddy Roosevelt, and many other people of means had seen the wholesale destruction of vast, pristine wilderness in the West by rapacious profiteers intent on enriching themselves with out of control hunting, mining, and lumber operations. To them, these areas were a one of a kind and not to be physically despoiled for all in pursuit of the almighty dollar by the very few. When Woodrow Wilson in 1917 handed Sheldon the pen used to sign the park into being, there was a shared recognition that areas like this should be preserved and protected for eternity. Once lost, they would be gone forever. Now Trump emerges, one of the most vacuous capitalists of the modern age, with absolutely no sense of responsibility to the public or our heritage, but with a desire to reward men like himself, and with a stroke of his pen, takes away something not belonging to him but to the United States and the culture that has lived there for eons. This is public land, not his private playpen. To do what he has done without debate or consultation with the people of Utah, the Park Service, or the Congress shows what a corrupt person we have running the country. I am sure in his reptilian mind this is a payback to the Clinton administration and others who have fought for years to protect these areas. Somehow Trump's purpose in life is to erase accomplishments of past presidents he doesn't like. This is as sick as Nixon's obsession with "enemies" and other false justifications. Who is the greater man? One who leaves a natural treasure for us all, or one who takes it away only for people like himself? You decide.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-scales-back-two-huge-national-monuments-in-utah-drawing-praise-and-protests/2017/12/04/758c85c6-d908-11e7-b1a8-62589434a581_story.html?pushid=5a25a475b0a05c1d00000092&tidr=notifi_push_breaking-news&utm_term=.1a8350dcb36f
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