so let me get this straight: the Democratic Party apparatus wants to shuffle climate change off to the side, the only substantive policy being proposed on it is being proposed by anti-establishment insurgents, and meanwhile we get pathetically performative straw and bag bans
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i'm not even a climate change skeptic, just a pessimist, but if you were *trying* to paint a picture of a crisis that had been invented solely to stoke fear in the base, but now the base has really bought into it and need to be patted on the head and ignored, could you do better
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How could they do better? Their base is vocal and openly hostile in enforcing the most superficial and pointless gestures while the entire apparatus still rolls on. They keep getting the spoils, they make no real sacrifices, they get political power/votes. How could it improve?
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it would certainly make the problem look more real if any of the people in a position to have worked on faking it were agitated enough about it to try to provide leadership toward substantive and pointful measures
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I believe very few would support the kind of changes necessary to put a dent in climate change. It's political suicide to even suggest them, and so we have the current situation...assuming that any of the politicians genuinely give a shit in the first place.
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All the Left believes in is power and nothing else. Climate change is just a means to an end, like every single other issue.
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well that's certainly an assertion. how do you define "the Left", that this is a statement one can make about it with one's bare face hanging out?
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Right and Left are useful not as generalities for particular pol. movements or groups or parties, but for their prevailing energy: towards order/hierarchy or towards entropy/demos. I should add the latter can be sometimes good, as old sometimes must give way to new.
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so people of predominantly entropy/demos tendency believe in power and nothing else? what do people of predominantly order/hierarchy tendency believe in?
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