Stung by the party’s sweeping losses in November and desperate to win back working-class voters, the Democratic Party is in retreat on climate change.
That’s not how you- . . . ahhhh fuck.
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Thing we are up against is a media machine which favors racism and all the pathologies which to with that
once-popular climate policies are exacting a political price by pushing up energy and housing costs
Disturbing narrative to claim as fact. Oil prices were high because of war on Russia, and usual OPEC conspiracy to cut output during Democrat terms. CA electricity prices are high because Utility monopolies are powerful lobbyists, with the biggest factor, raising prices in whole of CA to get out of forest fire related liability bankruptcies. Rate payers instead of shareholders had to pay. Restrictive home solar policies is also Utility supremacism.
There is little in the article that is directly climate related, but the more fuel you are "forced to use", the more expensive it will be. The housing cost reference doesn't have any climate related points in article, but solar mandate for new construction was heavily botched. Extremely crappy solar in small amount is usually installed, without regard to production efficiency/orientation.
If California politicians were paid to make energy cheaper for CA residents (they weren't and aren't), they haven't been doing their job, but its not renewable energy options that are to blame. It's control to limited access.
I agree, Democrats arent my favorite source either.
Carter said cut back and lost. Gore ran on it and lost. Hillary ran on it and lost. Biden didn't run on it, but did it anyway and was going to lose. Harris didn't say it, but it was clear she'd continue Biden's policy and lost. The track record isn't good, people don't care about this issue. Inb4 Lemmy's misreading, I think it's the most important issue, but the voters don't seem to.
Gore ran on it, and technically won, but our electoral system screwed him over. Hillary won the popular vote. Biden did a few small things to help the climate, but did a massive amount of things to hurt the climate.
I think people do care, but our electoral system isn't designed to reflect the will of the people.
"Inb4 lemmy misreading" what is there to misread? You never actually made a point, and ignored literally everything else about their campaigns that actually did have measurable effects on their outcomes.
Lemmy misreads that I don't want climate progress. I do. But I acknowledge that it's a losing election issue (see history). But you seem to have misread in a different way which I honestly don't even understand what you're trying to say.
I think assuming any issue that affects capitalists is unpopular because it doesn't win US elections is just ignorant of basically every part of our electoral system, government, media ecosystem, etc. People don't have that much input and to the extent that they do, they get constantly mislead by the people who have both the means and motive to push their message against popular will or interest.
We have to reckon with THAT problem instead of just incorrectly despairing that people don't care. That doesn't get us anywhere.
Who said "any issue that affects capitalists"? I said environmental progress, greenhouse gasses in particular, is not a winning election issue. (Again, I want it to be, but I acknowledge it's not.) If you're going to strawman that badly, holy cow. I'm out.
I'll note that solar power is the cheapest, most abundant energy source in human history.
It's almost entirely about changing how we do things.