If you believe the climate science, then the climate crisis is the possibly the most important issue in how you vote.
American politics is the roughly 33% of the nation that will show up in 2020 to vote against Trump and Republicans trying to save their lives against the two-thirds of adults who will vote for Trump or not vote at all. The identity that will matter most is who shows up to vote and also who is willing to take part in street demonstrations if need be.
Climate change is a utopia for the right. It offers a chance to live without regard for others while doing harm to people in the global south and to people of color in the United States. We can close the southern border to climate refugees and be as cruel as we can imagine. You can drive your big truck and do whatever & know that people you don't like will bear the burden.
If Houston and Harris County elected Democrats can't offer a meaningful and imaginative response to the large number of migrants detained by Trump's cruel immigration policies in local detention centers, then how they will respond to the stresses of further attacks on our rights by Trump and Republicans & from the stresses of the ongoing reality of climate change? Our local elected officials could at least ask to personally inspect these facilities. It seems though they just don't want to know the conditions in these places.
We need to keep our hearts open to one another on our side of the aisle because there is so much trouble ahead.
Alienation is creativity and creativity is community.
American politics is the roughly 33% of the nation that will show up in 2020 to vote against Trump and Republicans trying to save their lives against the two-thirds of adults who will vote for Trump or not vote at all. The identity that will matter most is who shows up to vote and also who is willing to take part in street demonstrations if need be.
Climate change is a utopia for the right. It offers a chance to live without regard for others while doing harm to people in the global south and to people of color in the United States. We can close the southern border to climate refugees and be as cruel as we can imagine. You can drive your big truck and do whatever & know that people you don't like will bear the burden.
If Houston and Harris County elected Democrats can't offer a meaningful and imaginative response to the large number of migrants detained by Trump's cruel immigration policies in local detention centers, then how they will respond to the stresses of further attacks on our rights by Trump and Republicans & from the stresses of the ongoing reality of climate change? Our local elected officials could at least ask to personally inspect these facilities. It seems though they just don't want to know the conditions in these places.
We need to keep our hearts open to one another on our side of the aisle because there is so much trouble ahead.
Alienation is creativity and creativity is community.