Posted on 09/04/2024 11:36:15 AM PDT by george76
Kamala Harris and the Democrats have gone strangely silent about the “climate crisis” they warned was an existential threat a few years ago..
Don’t look now, but the “climate crisis” is officially over. No need to take my word for it. Just ask the Democratic Party’s new standard bearer, Vice President Kamala Harris, who mentioned the topic “just once” in her acceptance speech at the recent Democratic National Convention, according to The New York Times. The Times also noted that Harris “has not offered any new policies for addressing climate change.”
How far we have come in five short years. In 2019, before COVID and inflation and antisemitic demonstrations on college campuses were the big issues of the day, America was prospering amid political calmness. With a presidential campaign beginning, Democratic candidates and their allies in the corporate press needed to talk about something, so they chose climate change. CNN even dedicated seven hours to a “climate crisis town hall.”
Every candidate seeking the Democratic nomination, including Harris, warned of the dangers posed by climate change. In fact, she dubbed the matter, “an existential threat to who we are as human beings” and announced she was, “prepared to get rid of the filibuster to pass a Green New Deal.” No ambiguity there.
Fast forward to today, and the existential crisis is ignored. Wherever one lands on the climate change spectrum, the contradiction is hard to miss. What was once the biggest issue is now a non-issue, and there are three possible explanations.
The first is cynical: climate change was never a crisis but an opportunity. Gas prices were in the $2 dollar a gallon range nationwide. The inflation rate was 1.7 percent. There were no wars in Ukraine or Israel. President Donald Trump enjoyed both popularity and success.
Democrats needed an issue they could own. They needed a crisis to convince voters they deserved power. Labeling climate change “existential” gave it gravity and academic loftiness: Climate change is an enormous threat and only we are smart enough to realize it. Trump is too brash, too troglodytic, to care about something as esoteric yet profoundly serious as climate change. This was their plan.
Inventing a crisis with solutions that would upend everyday life — no more combustible engines or red meat — just to win votes is very cynical, but it’s what Democrats did.
The second reason for ignoring the “climate crisis” this election cycle is not much better: climate change polls poorly. It ranks as the 19th most important topic with voters in a national poll. Harris’ DNC speech was crafted with polling in mind. “Free Palestine” polls well among their crowd, so it was given attention. Fear of the mysterious “Project 2025,” supposedly the playbook for Trump and his fellow right-wing extremists, must test well because it was mentioned several times.
This explanation is also concerning because it implies that Harris would rather conceal the truth of an “existential crisis” (her words, not mine) rather than risk losing power. The left tries to brand “Kamala” as “Momala,” but no mother would hide a health diagnosis of her child rather than risk upsetting him.
If climate change is an existential threat, state it plainly. Past presidential candidates of both political parties did not shy away from the major challenges of their time. Franklin D. Roosevelt warned against the danger posed by Nazi Germany. Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan all spoke of the Soviet threat, believing the American people needed truth, not coddling. The American people deserve the fullness of truth — if their existence is really at risk.
The third reason Kalama Harris is giving climate change the back seat is because the problem has been solved. That of course is laughable. If the Biden-Harris Administration fixed climate change, America would have seen ticker tape parades and mass celebrations. It would be data point number one for Harris’ promotion to the presidency.
No, the Biden-Harris Administration did not “fix” the climate, which leaves the previous two options: either Harris disingenuously uses climate change to scare voters into compliance or she ignores the greatest threat of our time because it imperils her political goals.
Both are shameful and belittle the American people. Both represent real “threats to our democracy” for they leave the fullness of truth in the dark. Both are disqualifying.
Of course, Harris herself could tell us why she is suddenly ignoring the climate issue. But there’s no good answer. This is just another example of why she is avoiding the media and the public.
Whether its cynicism or naked ambition, the climate issue is manipulated endlessly by people looking for power and money. This election cycle makes it clear that whatever climate change might be occurring, it certainly is not “existential.” Given her silence on the issue, Harris obviously agrees.
No!!!!!!
Duh
Oh my, so much evil upon evil upon evil upon evil beginning to take over everything. How sad. Jesus is coming soon...morning or night or noon, many will meet their doom, trumpets will sound....
Back when “global warming” morphed into the always true of something term “climate change” (maybe 1998 or so) I first heard an interview subject say:
“The restrictions are to take down the US and other Western countries from the top of the heap and ruin our economies and free lifestyles. Meanwhile, China and others are exempt as they are said to need to catch up with us, so they have black smoke coming out of factory chimneys and chemical pollutants drained into the water table.”
Still the “secret” behind the stories ingrained by school and media propagandists to children who grow up to hate America and love supposed ecology.
As was “covid”
Always a scam $$$
Yes. What is next?
Exactly.
And the Russian “collusion”.
Now forgotten? This bullcrap fraud is reported multiple times a day...
It’s been amazing to see how quickly even FReepers adopted “climate change” language instead of global warming that the left used for a couple of decades. Take back the language people.
There is no criminal, corrupt, totalitarian scheme that cannot be justified by the religion of ‘climate’.
good point !
Yes, especially the word "migrant."
They are ILLEGAL ALIENS.
The “forgotten” climate boondoggle is still wrecking our standard of living.
Does this mean the ICE AGE we were promised from the 60’s til the mid 80’s isn’t going to come?
She is a true believer and will squander trillions on useless climate crap if she is elected. She just isn’t talking about it because she knows the people are fed up with the gaslighting and it is a loser issue in this election.
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