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Could Talking About Climate Change Now Help Kamala Harris’s Campaign? (www.newyorker.com)
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IMHO the big thing that will help is actually volunteering for her campaign

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[–] spidermanchild 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When I think of a "do nothing party", the Greens are at the top of the list. They quite literally do nothing and have no power, except to spoil tight races in the direction of conservatism/fascism. I guess if that's you're goal, you're happy.

The Cheney cohort supports Harris not because she is a conservative warmonger, they support her because she'll broadly maintain US legal and political structures, which as they've stated, they feel are more important than specific policy. I.e., she will preserve the state of the Republic and not do the fascism thing. They're endorsement says a lot more about Trump than it does about Harris, which you probably know but are being purposely disingenuous about.

Good luck with your third parties in a system that mathematically will never support a third party though, real big brain stuff. You're literally playing a different game than everyone else.

To be clear, I'm not trying to convince you of anything, this is for anyone else that may happen upon this thread that might be smart enough to connect the dots about an alternate reality where Gore won the election with respect to climate change.