Overall, voters support action to fight climate change, but it's near the very bottom of what they think is important. But it's very important to the Clintonite, college-educated mostly-white liberal wing of the party. So that's what got in.

But that's a separate issue from what we were discussing. You had said that there were those that felt that dealing with racism and civil rights was priority one, and others felt that dealing with class (and, by extension, economic inequality) was the way to go. You're now introducing a third group that didn't value either approach?

I certainly place climate change has hyper-important. But people have to be secure first before you can try to push that. And they aren't secure, and haven't been since at least 2016. Obama made some headway with the ACA (in terms of making people feel more secure). Chasing climate change isn't going to do that**. And neither is trying to dismantle the ACA, give more tax breaks to the rich, shake confidence in the government (which the Felon is going out of his way to do), and pretty much everything else going on right now.

IMO, Dems need to assure civil rights, rule of law (no matter who you are!), reducing income inequality, and, if we can link it to more jobs created, throw in some climate change. The jobs aspect of that would help personal security. Without it, that issue would probably lose a lot of votes.




**Accepting that it probably should, on some level, but people generally can't think that long-term. The payoff would be decades away, and people are feeling insecure right now.