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It seems to me a very good first step in terms of getting climate change on
the agenda . . . as with health care, wealth inequality, etc. Sure, I'd
rather the independent Left be doing it, but it seems to have not known how
to do so. Thus, we struck with what has been able to get those issues on
the agenda--a bevy of new Democratic Congresswomen who have gotten down to
addressing serious questions in the middle of the silliest political
atmosphere in recent American political history.
I think it's useful to see this as an essential step.
I mean, we have always known that the first mass response when these issues
surfaced on the grand scale was that voters would look to the Democratic
party for relief. This is something through which we are destined to
pass. *No amount of repeated denunciations of this course is going to make
this phase shorter or less painful*. Indeed, watching the Democratic
experience with those good "reasonable" candidates that don't scare the
"moderate" voters is playing out in Virginia . . . and will continue to do
so. And, at some point, Shumer and Pelosi will present the new members of
Congress (and their many, many followers) with an ultimatum or a series of
ultimatums.
That will be the signal for us to have some useful advice and initiatives,
where possible.
Of course, we wanted to have positioned ourselves to have a more serious
influence on these things, the various kibbles and bits of the far left
could have started cooperative efforts to launch independent electoral
interventions . . . or done it through the Greens or some other such
vehicle. Given that this did not happen--and doesn't look very likely to
happen now--we are left to buckle up and ride out this period.
Cheers,
Mark L.
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