Posted on 06/01/2019 10:40:09 AM PDT by Libloather
Democrats across the ideological spectrum want their party to dedicate one of its presidential primary debates to climate change despite the risk of exposing their own divides.
At least five presidential candidates have backed fellow presidential contender Jay Inslee's idea for a climate-centric debate, in a sign of the issue's growing profile among Democratic voters.
But a public debate might also force Democratic contenders to confront policy differences they have so far papered over, including how quickly they would push the U.S. to shift away from the fossil fuels that provide union jobs. The candidates would also face pressure to offer specifics on their position on the Green New Deal, the ambitious progressive climate resolution that Republicans have sought to tar as an expensive socialist boondoggle.
Presidential candidates like Beto O'Rourke have released ambitious climate change plans on the heels of pressure campaigns from progressive activists, while others, like former Vice President Joe Biden, face big questions about how ambitious an agenda they will lay out while balancing the needs of organized labor. Democrats also have a far from unified position on questions such as whether natural gas and nuclear power should have any role in combating climate change, in a sign of how far leftward the discussion has shifted since Barack Obama left the White House.
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That would not be a debate. Just a circle jerk, which is all lefties usually can handle anyway.
Notice that a lot of the Dem’s real agenda is so outre` that they know they have to be careful when and where they spout it...
Yeah. Were entering the next Grand Solar Minimum, lasting around 50 years. Made a mini ice age in the middle ages.
In 25 years, our millenials will be begging for global warming.
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