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I think Democrats need to pivot away from climate if they have any hope of winning pocketbook issues with big chunks of the working class voters again....but I don't think voters are going to be persuaded if the Democrats just change their rhetoric from "green energy is needed to save the world" to "green energy will lower your bills." They need a message that says, "we care about your economic position more than we care about climate change." Because that's where voters are (and have always been), and Democrats have spent almost two decades acting as though that wasn't the case.The dems didn't just go along with climate change as (bad) policy, they went along with the apocalyptic rhetoric that went along with it:
Polar bears will drown!
Anarctica is melting!
Earth's temperatures are a hockey stick!
We're all going to die from hurricanes!
We're all going to die from wild fires!
etc. etc.
The reason for that was that they thought they could relate to younger voters -and- appeal to the WEF set at the same time.
It won't be easy for them to walk all this back:
Joe Biden
“Climate change is the existential threat to humanity,” the former vice president said. “Unchecked, it is going to actually bake this planet. This is not hyperbole. It’s real. And we have a moral obligation.”cnbc.com - Joe biden climate change is number one issue facing humanityThen there's their opposition to energy infrastructure programs like Keystone. Woof.
