In my article Priceless Crisis, I wondered whether the climate issue would rise, fall or be swept under the rug in the presidential candidate debates? That still remains to be seen but the issue has blown up for sure.
Some people now want a separate climate debate, but the powers that be are resisting. This is now called the “debate debate”.
The Democratic National Committee is clearly afraid of this issue, as they should be. But the greens are hot for it, led by AOC’s Sunrise Movement.
In the ongoing tweet storm, Sunrise political director Evan Weber is reported as saying “Our very survival as a species is at stake.” This is a fantasy but then it is a circus, right? In this case, the clowns are green.
My understanding is that there are going to be a whopping 12 separate debates, which almost makes sense given that this is supposedly the largest number of one party candidates in the history of America.
No doubt this is the Trump effect, attracting opponents and such. Good for him.
The number of candidates is a specific problem with having a single issue debate. Just about every candidate has a stated position on climate, some extreme, others not so much.
So who gets to be on stage? I would be happy if it were just the extremists like Sanders and Inslee, but nobody wants to be left out lest it appears they do not care about the supposedly (and nonsensical) dire threat of climate change.
The DNC is already struggling with these numbers, having general debates among groups of ten candidates and such. I imagine that every candidate would want to be included in a climate debate.
The unworkability of this issue is part of the fun. Reportedly there are petitions with hundreds of thousands of signatures calling for a climate debate. It can’t work.
Apparently, this firestorm was kicked off when Inslee proposed a climate change debate, this being his flagship issue. DNC chairman Tom Perez said no, even suggesting that Inslee was not a major candidate.
But climate change is now an irresistible driving force among the Democrats, so the big guns like Sanders and Biden have reportedly joined the push.
Hill Heat puts it this way:
“Today, Joe Biden became the 15th Democratic candidate for president to call for a climate debate, making a mockery of Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez’s claim such a debate would be “at the request of one candidate.”
Perez was evidently singling out Jay Inslee, who has made climate action a centerpiece of his campaign.
In fact, the demand for a presidential debate focused on climate began with the youth climate activist groups U.S. Youth Climate Strike and Sunrise Movement. Inslee was the first candidate to support their campaign, though over a dozen fellow candidates soon followed suit.”
The point is that the Democrats are now caught in the throes of a fantasy. The climate extremists are trying to drive the presidential election agenda. The extent to which they will succeed remains to be seen, but it is great fun to watch.
Meanwhile, America is doing well under President Trump’s leadership. If the Democrats really think that American’s care about this fantasy “climate crisis” they are almost certainly mistaken.
But if the Sunrise Movement is now driving the Democrat Party, I say Woohoo!
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The clowns may be green on the outside but they are deep red on the inside (as in Communistic in their desire to control our lives and economy). There are no moderates in the clown car, especially related to “climate change”. The differences are only in minor degrees but all would destroy our economy (and then the world’s economy). I hope they do have a “debate” on climate change because the electorate who are not radical left-wing will see the nonsense that they are proposing.
Apparently Democrats are really slow learners .
Threaten coal workers in 2016 and now all fossil fuel workers and related industries .
A double down of rank incompetence.
Spartacus ,a fake “american Indian ” , an outright communist , all make Hillary look like the Democrats only savior . As long as she doesn’t have to campaign or do any more face plants she should easily pass these other clowns . And besides there is probably lots of that $148 million Russia pay to play money still kicking around . When the Democrats hit about 30% in the polls
just guess who we are going to see . They just can’t resist .
Looks like their taking part in some Game Show like maybe SHOOTING THE BULL or THE GREAT BRAY IN first prize The Oval Office and Higher Taxes for all Americans
It’s not so much that Dems are slow learners, but that they have no sense of reality and no concern for the truth. It would be humorous, but also maddening, to watch such a climate debate dwell on the science of the issue. Most likely, if such a circus were to take place, it would be mostly a contest of wits to determine who has the most appearling policy in mind to mangle our society into an unrecognizable ant colony.
If Fox news were to offer the Democratic candidates a televised debate with Imminent Climate Catastrophe as the topic, moderated by Pielke and Curry, how many would show up?
When a Liberal Democrat bonks their head we hear the sound of Hollow Coconuts like in the THREE STOOGES