- 11 days
The reality of green energy is that it’s difficult to lead on this at a state level, not impossible, but structurally limited.
Red states have actually succeeded with wind power, largely because it’s become the cheapest option on the market, even when state-level subsidies got rolled back. But for a truly effective transition, the heavy lifting has to happen at the federal level, and that’s just not coming from this administration.
So we’ll still see growth,the economics guarantee that now, but we’ll fall far short of what we could achieve with actual federal support. The market is dragging us forward despite the politics, not because of it. That’s the frustrating reality, but it also means the underlying momentum is already stronger than the people in charge.
- 2 months
Democrats back on the hunt for the elusive “center voter” I see. They will fail just as they have failed before going after “center voters”
- 2 months
They at least sometimes turn out. This mythical progressive voter (and indeed in blue as the ocean Cali where the climate die hard just lost) doesn’t seem to ever find a candidate worthy of getting off the couch for except once in a blue moon.
I find it pretty incredulous to argue that Democrats meeting people where theyre at is a bad thing. And again, this is in California…
- 2 months
In my mind, it would be way easier to energize your own base than it is to convince people that prefer your opponent to vote for you. It’s not the “left’s fault” that Democrats keep failing to enact meaningful change.
- 2 months
You’re not “the base” if you only show up haphazardly. The “centrists” everyone despises are the base. That’s why they continually win primaries, etc.
I’d love for more left leaning candidates to win but until people turn out, they won’t. Can’t expect great candidates to fall from the sky. People actually need to put the work in and they clearly don’t.
- 2 months
I read the article and don’t understand your comment. How is this an example of democrats trying to get “center voters”?
Not that they shouldn’t be trying to win over centrists, they definitely should because there are more centrists than leftists by a lot and those centrists are constituents.
Not to mention that is how democrats have won the majority of nation wide elections in the last several decades.