Policy 11/28/2011
Posted by rosshunter on November 27, 2011
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DeChristopher – Obama should lose the election
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I was so glad to see DeChristopher lay this concept on the table. Voting for either of the the two main choices is NOT going to solve the climate crisis. The only solution must come from our own political action. Multitudes of deeply concer…ned good people must now begin to wean themselves away from their addiction to the Democrats, and not be afraid of the Republican bogeyman. It doesn’t matter who wins in 2012 unless it’s our own candidates – we will continue to lose, the planet will continue to lose even with a Democrat majority and Obama at the helm. Habeas corpus will still be suspended, the corporate police state will continue to encroach with approval from the White House, the planet will continue to warm irreversibly, and we will help to doom life on this planet because we couldn’t face the prospect of turning away from the Democrats and working tirelessly for political solutions of our own making.
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don’t believe that Nader split the Democrat vote. I’d argue that the Democrats have co-opted the Green vote. And when we should all be working tirelessly to build a new platform with new candidates committed to climate solutions, instead …we waste our votes on Democrats who are in pawn to the corporations the same as the Republicans. The greatest myth is that the Democrats will solve climate change – they will not. Only we can do that.
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political solution to climate crisis
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I submit that the trajectory of solution coming from the Democrats and Obama combined is woefully inadequate to solve the climate crisis – such… that another four more years simply continues the failure. We end up in disaster.
Against this failure of the climate, what comparatively can be the disaster of the Republicans in office? Under Bush the environmental lobbies fought hard and sharply. Under Obama, they recognize themselves that they’ve been lulled into inactivity (until recently). Obama’s administration continues to advance the police state, corporate rule continues unchecked – we CANNOT fix the climate without representative government, and this is severely broken across both parties.
Thus the only true answer to climate crisis is to fix politics – to get political ourselves and put in our own candidates. This can’t all be achieved by 2012 – but to move forward in the name of all the living things on this planet we have to be unafraid of Republicans, and fight regardless, instead of hoping the Democrats will help. If we blithely waste our votes on them instead of working ceaselessly in our own political actions every day then we have failed to meet the challenge.
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I’m trying to say that if you only see two choices in 2012, then I have to keep working every day until you see at least a third realistic choice, and hopefully an entire political movement that grips you like the Occupy movement has gripped us all. And it needs to be persuasive because to believe that a third option will “split the Dem vote” as the old meme goes, will only buy us four more years of climate failure. In fact the Dems and the Repubs both have split the vote of the true solution, which is trying to be born right now, and which I assume will gather force as 2012 progresses. With all respect, yours is the very opinion that any new political force needs to change. Of course I’m familiar with this opinion, it used to be mine also. I wish I had the articulation to persuade you to this other view, but thanks for the chance to try.
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