“the left” and Democrats are on the other. There is no Tea Party equivalent on the left, no organized group that exerts significant impact on the political process.

Corporations have far too much influence on both ends of the spectrum due to our failure to fix campaign funding. Up until now more support has gone to the Republican party but that may be shifting as business continues to sour on the Tea Party (which big business created).

The right still holds the conservative attitude of making changes slowly. This has mostly to do with white males attempting to hang on to their privileged positions as long as possible, not on the more traditional cautiousness of not rushing quickly into change.

I simply do not buy your proposition that the right is “intellectually in favor of distributed energy”. The right has fought solar and wind generation. Much of the right continues to oppose renewable energy. Only recently are we seeing a movement on the right to support them. The right is very late to the party.

We saw the first signs when Republican governors began campaigning for continued wind farm supports and some conservative state legislatures defeated anti-renewable legislation purposed by the fossil fuel industry. They saw, after many farms were built, that those wind farms were creating jobs and tax revenues which were saving some of their small dying towns and increasing tax incomes.

We’ve now see one example of a Tea Party group backing solar power in Georgia. And we’re starting to see some right-leaning individuals recognizing that solar works for them and their businesses. (Look at the very conservative Walmart.)

This is pretty weak tea compared to the years of effort that the left has put into moving us away from fossil fuels. Especially when one considers the remaining very strong denial of climate change coming from the right.

If the right is coming around, great! Let’s welcome them. We all need to be working on the global warming problem because, left unsolved, it will screw us all.

PowerSource 1800 Solar Generator at Amazon and elsewhere indicates a high degree of dissatisfaction, with many purchasers noting that comparable equipment of better quality can be purchased for hundreds of dollars less at Home Depot.

Perhaps that’s why the company feels the need to use Glenn Beck’s so-called “right wing” pseudo-ideology to market its products.

And the right has opposed electric powered vehicles, preferring oil which increases our dependency on other nations, increases our need to be involved in the affairs of other countries and increasing our spending on military and health.

While the right says they want less centralized control they have not been consistent in their actions. We manufacture wind turbines, solar panels, EVs/PHEVs and traction batteries in the US. We can mine the materials we need here in the US. They should have been involved in pushing renewable energy from the start.

Furthermore, there was a time during which the right was “conservative” in the true meaning of the term. What is more conservative than using energy sources which do the least to damage our country?