Ideological Purity Has No Place In Politics
Politics in America is messy, but it has always been so. Governing requires compromise, something Lincoln and FDR knew a lot about.
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New Republican-Only Conservative Climate Caucus Light On Science, Heavily Pro-Fossil Fuels
New Republican Climate Caucus policies: Point fingers at others. Give money to fossil fuel industry. Pretend US is a leader, as opposed to a laggard.
Look Out, Red States. Reality Is Starting To Hit You Hard
Denial of reality is dangerous. When it is institutionalized, it becomes dangerous to large numbers of people, sometimes focusing most heavily on those who support it.
Harry Belafonte On Why Black Votes Matter
Harry Belafonte wants all Americans of color to vote. Here’s why.
Louisiana Politricks Almost Silenced NOLA Voters
Yesterday, I woke up to the news that 11 voting locations in New Orleans may not have power on Election Day. This was due to Hurricane Zeta hitting our state and Mayor Cantrell of New Orleans calling out our Secretary of State, Kyle Adrion, for failing to provide backup power to these 11 polling sites after Hurricane Zeta knocked out power.
Canadian Conservative Party’s Leadership Candidates Get Failing Grades On Climate
The Conservative Party of Canada took the wrong message from their failure in late 2019. They think that doubling down on things that the majority of Canada is uninterested in is the right strategy, despite all evidence to the contrary.
The Cancer Of Corporations
The equivalent of a cancer cell in our society is a corporation that has lost all sense of social responsibility. It is an entity which has forgotten that it is part of an organized society where all of its members work together for the benefit of all. That cancerous corporation sees its purpose in life as only to gain as much as it can for itself, and to grow, multiply, and prosper, at the expense of the society it is meant to serve.
Green Ontario Turns An Ugly Shade Of Brown
Doug Ford has taken Ontario’s reasonable set of environmental policies and a transformation that was positive overall and is regressing it rapidly, ignorantly and with likely much more expensive overall results.
Watching Nature Collapse
Sometimes it seems the best of everything is passing away.
What’s Up With Wind Power in Vermont?
The Vermont Public Service Board has sent recommendations to the legislature for new sound standards for utility-scale wind projects. Critics say the standards are so strict that the effectively kill development of wind power in the state.
