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Post #1224112

Author
Jay
Parent topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Date created
8-Jul-2018, 7:37 PM

moviefreakedmind said:

Jay said:

While there’s more to quality of life than just environmental threats and humans are still better off today than at any other point in history,

Do we have to make this pointless statement every single time we criticize Trump?

Do we need to pointlessly mention how terrible things are the world over every single time we criticize Trump?

P.S. - Things aren’t terrible.

I agree climate change is probably the most pressing issue for us as a species and it’s unfortunate that bad politics could end up wrecking the planet.

Unfortunate? It’s not just politicians. It’s primarily to blame on a willfully ignorant population that votes for people like Trump. Even Hillary, although she would’ve been better, was still incredibly weak on environmentalism. There’s also a lot of corporate propaganda in conservative-leaning media that spread outright lies about climate change. I’ve noticed lately that they’re back to spreading the lie that climate change is a total myth. I think it should be illegal to publish fraudulent studies about climate change, kind of like how it’s illegal for tobacco companies to publish fraudulent studies that cigarettes won’t destroy your lungs.

Most voters don’t vote based on a single issue and are primarily concerned with immediate results over future consequences, and I think the economy, immigration, and anti-PC culture took precedence over climate change in the last election for Trump voters (at least some of whom were Obama voters previously). I think most voters besides coal miners hoping to get their jobs back would support a pro-environment policy if it were attached to better economic and immigration policies. I know a few Trump voters and I wouldn’t call them willfully ignorant by any stretch. They’d vote for the right Democrat.

Democrats lost because they had a mediocre platform and the wrong candidate. They need to come out with a rock star in 2020, but with the party going hard left on immigration and pretending that most Americans don’t want secure borders, they’re setting themselves up for another loss.