The U.S. Youth Climate Strike, an organization inspired by climate change poster child Greta Thunberg, announced on Tuesday they are endorsing Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
The group has joined 17-year-old Swedish teen Thunberg’s Fridays for Future movement, which encourages children to ditch school on Friday to participate in “climate strikes” across the country.
It issued a statement on its endorsement of Bernie Sanders:
As Americans are being murdered because of apathy to climate change, the organization believes Americans must elect a president who is unwavering in their pursuit of true climate justice. We cannot afford to wait any longer, deliberating on incremental policy and compromises. We must elect a president who is not afraid to disrupt existing establishments. Sanders has a history of standing up to corrupt politicians and billionaires and implementing radical legislation. He has also already gained the support of millions of Americans of color.
Sanders understands it will not take just one person to end the decades of crime levied against lower-income and POC communities by Wall Street, big business, and politicians, acknowledging that the real battle is being fought within disenfranchised communities.U.S. Youth Climate Strike does not believe the power of electoral politics is sufficient to address the climate crisis, nor does it believe the current American political system should hold ultimate sway in climate action.
However, it does believe that the most immediate solution consists of electing a candidate that will not hesitate to secure a Green New Deal. While the climate movement moves its attention to people-based, permanent solutions to climate change, youth can continue to organize for a president they believe will be a step forward in securing climate justice.
We understand that Sanders will not fix the climate crisis, nor is he somehow the founder of the climate movement, but U.S. Youth Climate Strike backs Sanders because it believes in the president’s power to fundamentally transform the way politicians address the most pressing issue of our generation. The decisions Americans make in their elected officials will undoubtedly affect the next year in climate policy and regulation.
“Bernie is the climate candidate because he takes the most bold stance and listens to communities at the same time,” U.S. Youth Climate Strike co-founder and partnerships director Isra Hirsi said.
“He’s the only one I trust to hold fossil fuel executives accountable and fight for a Green New Deal. He understands we are running out of time and I know he will do everything in his power to stop this crisis.”
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The stupidity is strong with the USYCS.
A generation of Cretins. So sad.
Useful Idiots lots of useful idiots will surrender their Freedoms and Soventry and vote for a socialists They need to wear Dunce Caps to show their total ignorance all those holding Bernie sign wear a Dunce Cap to show your stupid
I read a jaw – dropper this morning. Trudeau told a gathering of mining executives that ‘The best way to invest in Canada is to fight climate change’. Helluva sales pitch from a man-child who is the epitome of the Peter Principle.
BTW, some Canadians don’t seem to have tired of losing, and most Americans haven’t tired of winning. One definition of ‘Canadian’ that is popular among the elites is ‘not American’. May I say it another way? Losers.
When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn?
Well they will, eventually, when the snow and ice doesn’t stop.
Flannery promised us no more rain so many years ago, and it has hardly stopped ever since. Rained most of last night and I’ve never seen the outside Verandah floor get so wet beneath the roofing. Sometimes an odd patch, but last night wet everywhere.
Our stupid Labor Government believed Flannery and built a desalination plant instead of the necessary new Dams. It is now mothballed and only used once to see if it worked.
The main problem is the Lying Media – Pollies think that people believe it all and so pander to those idiotic and insane beliefs.
If these children fail the final exams, will they be required to repeat a year? Or will they be advanced automatically with their age group? What a way to produce under-educated future voters…..
Worse than uneducated, they will be educated incorrectly. As Ronald Reagan so aptly stated the situation with liberals during his campaign in 1980: “It’s not that my liberal opponents don’t know anything, it’s that everything they know is wrong.”
I’m going to throw this out there for comment. It’s the idea that you’ll lie because you care. You’re willing to sacrifice your reputation for a cause. Seduce people then leverage their trust. Apologize later.
Or the flip side, telling the truth somehow makes you a callous insensitive clod . Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth was his expedient lie, he loves this planet so much.
Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies.
Do not let this state nor its meaning from the Youth Climate Strike go unnoticed. “Youth Climate Strike does not believe the power of electoral politics is sufficient to address the climate crisis, nor does it believe the current American political system should hold ultimate sway in climate action.” What they are quite literally saying is that our current political system should be replaced by a dictatorship.
There’s a lot of unemployed people in Western Canada who think the same way. They’ve been outvoted by the United Nations, er, Toronto. Democracy has stabbed them in the back.
Let them follow Sanders all the way into Poverty they are fools