Silhouette
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OK, I find it a bit amusing how the dems are running around like fractured chicken flocks in the yard squawking every which direction...Here are a few....
1. Jobs...whoops...Trump beat you to that..
2. The Wall along Mexico...too many working class dems agree there too...Trump's got them...dang..
3. Healthcare!! Trump's going to expand medicaid and put his name on that, again to the glee of working class voters...shoot!
4. The ban on immigration!! Got news for you, swaths of middle voters are secretly celebrating a sigh of relief that the unending stream of trojan horses mean less terrorists will sneak through.
******* (they do make great futile distractions for the flock though, don't they?)
What to do? Is there no issue upon which a clear line is drawn that can be the new dem lapel? The new face of the democratic party that the GOP itself will not corner and pee on first, to the delight of working class value voters? Not one topic that even the most ardent of middle Trump-style dems would gravitate back to the blue of blue ideals?
I've got one the GOP will fuck up on hard and will not waiver in their stance upon: the environment. Specifically car manufacturing and the push for new cargo-style SUVs instead of efficient commuters, it's twin-project: fracking (you know to provide more gas for those 12mpg lunkers) and the Pipeline from Canada for same.
Talking points might be:
1. How producing bigger heavier cars means less of a market to Europe who doesn't want them; but instead wants hybrids and small affordable diesels.
2. How #1 means where we could have revived our economy selling the world what it wants in autos, we instead will make a few rich oil bastards richer while the support industry for cars that won't sell abroad (or locally because you know we're all still really broke and won't be "upgrading" to a higher fuel bill each month just to get to work and back)..at least in theory they'll get richer. Hard to see how when their stubborn monopoly on the types of cars consumers can buy will be like cutting their own throats in the end. Trump's Dieselgate?: How The GOP/BigOil Powers Intend To Smash Efficient Cars Again
3. How fracking cannot be cleaned up. How once polluted, our last resources of fresh underground agriculture and drinking water will be gone forever and ever and ever. "Safe Water Act" anyone?
4. How fracking earthquakes might actually trigger other tectonic plates to start shifting nearby. The shale layers might actually be acting as a buffer for stress zones otherwise free to slip and slide around.. (Get ready Cali, BigOil might just be lubing up "The Big One".) Kind of like playing Jenga with critical subsurface structures, banking that they're not critical in mitigating pressures and activity in neighboring plates.. For that matter, the New Madrid Fault running along the Mississippi River is a doozey when it wakes up now and then.
5. How the pipeline from Canada for sure will burst and foul more streams and rivers, many on sensitive native lands. (you know, especially with man-made earthquakes on the exponential increase in the region.)
6. How solar thermal linear fresnel is a much better way to boil water than with nuclear boilers or other more polluting types. How combining solar thermal with oil and such in the Southwest using new superconductor technology will make it so we can SELL energy to Canada instead of buy it from them (GDP anyone?), with a massive reduction in carbon footprint since the number of sunny days in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada & California run around 300 days each year..
*******
So dems, you can sit there spinning your wheels in the mud, getting zero traction, or you can find some firm pavement the GOP won't waffle away from under any circumstances (their anti-environmental stance).
We could be selling massive amounts of affordable diesel & electric commuters to Europe and expanding our economy massively this way. And we could be selling sun-boiled steam turbine electricity to Canada instead of buying their oil. Both are economic tidal waves for the US...virtual tsunamis. But because of a few recalcitrant BigOil moguls, we will play the game of pretend that 20th century gasoline lunker cars are "the way to go". If we make this vital mistake, it will likely be the last economic mistake America makes.
Discuss.
1. Jobs...whoops...Trump beat you to that..
2. The Wall along Mexico...too many working class dems agree there too...Trump's got them...dang..
3. Healthcare!! Trump's going to expand medicaid and put his name on that, again to the glee of working class voters...shoot!
4. The ban on immigration!! Got news for you, swaths of middle voters are secretly celebrating a sigh of relief that the unending stream of trojan horses mean less terrorists will sneak through.
******* (they do make great futile distractions for the flock though, don't they?)
What to do? Is there no issue upon which a clear line is drawn that can be the new dem lapel? The new face of the democratic party that the GOP itself will not corner and pee on first, to the delight of working class value voters? Not one topic that even the most ardent of middle Trump-style dems would gravitate back to the blue of blue ideals?
I've got one the GOP will fuck up on hard and will not waiver in their stance upon: the environment. Specifically car manufacturing and the push for new cargo-style SUVs instead of efficient commuters, it's twin-project: fracking (you know to provide more gas for those 12mpg lunkers) and the Pipeline from Canada for same.
Talking points might be:
1. How producing bigger heavier cars means less of a market to Europe who doesn't want them; but instead wants hybrids and small affordable diesels.
2. How #1 means where we could have revived our economy selling the world what it wants in autos, we instead will make a few rich oil bastards richer while the support industry for cars that won't sell abroad (or locally because you know we're all still really broke and won't be "upgrading" to a higher fuel bill each month just to get to work and back)..at least in theory they'll get richer. Hard to see how when their stubborn monopoly on the types of cars consumers can buy will be like cutting their own throats in the end. Trump's Dieselgate?: How The GOP/BigOil Powers Intend To Smash Efficient Cars Again
3. How fracking cannot be cleaned up. How once polluted, our last resources of fresh underground agriculture and drinking water will be gone forever and ever and ever. "Safe Water Act" anyone?
4. How fracking earthquakes might actually trigger other tectonic plates to start shifting nearby. The shale layers might actually be acting as a buffer for stress zones otherwise free to slip and slide around.. (Get ready Cali, BigOil might just be lubing up "The Big One".) Kind of like playing Jenga with critical subsurface structures, banking that they're not critical in mitigating pressures and activity in neighboring plates.. For that matter, the New Madrid Fault running along the Mississippi River is a doozey when it wakes up now and then.
5. How the pipeline from Canada for sure will burst and foul more streams and rivers, many on sensitive native lands. (you know, especially with man-made earthquakes on the exponential increase in the region.)
6. How solar thermal linear fresnel is a much better way to boil water than with nuclear boilers or other more polluting types. How combining solar thermal with oil and such in the Southwest using new superconductor technology will make it so we can SELL energy to Canada instead of buy it from them (GDP anyone?), with a massive reduction in carbon footprint since the number of sunny days in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada & California run around 300 days each year..
*******
So dems, you can sit there spinning your wheels in the mud, getting zero traction, or you can find some firm pavement the GOP won't waffle away from under any circumstances (their anti-environmental stance).
We could be selling massive amounts of affordable diesel & electric commuters to Europe and expanding our economy massively this way. And we could be selling sun-boiled steam turbine electricity to Canada instead of buying their oil. Both are economic tidal waves for the US...virtual tsunamis. But because of a few recalcitrant BigOil moguls, we will play the game of pretend that 20th century gasoline lunker cars are "the way to go". If we make this vital mistake, it will likely be the last economic mistake America makes.
Discuss.
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