“… While we have lost friends in Congress, we are gaining them in the streets …”
Eric Worrall writes: The President of the Sierra Club is confident of widespread and growing public support for the environmental movement, explaining apparent setbacks for the green movement, in the recent US midterm elections, as a conspiracy of corporate interests and bolstered by sinister voter suppression tactics.
According to Michael Brune, president of the Sierra Club;
“Despite the climate movement’s significant investments and an unprecedented get-out-the-vote program, strong voices for climate action were defeated, and candidates paid for by corporate interests and bolstered by sinister voter suppression tactics won the day.
This election marked a pivotal change in how candidates confront the climate crisis, We’re not backing down.
Public support is solidly behind action to tackle the climate crisis. While we have lost friends in Congress, we are gaining them in the streets, as our movement grows stronger and broader”
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/223028-did-climate-change-win-at-the-ballot-box
What can I say – I hope you receive the help and counselling you may in my opinion need Mr. Brune. Coping with rejection and loss can be deeply traumatic. Regardless of our political differences, I have no wish to see you suffer undue emotional pain, during this potentially difficult period of personal adjustment.
Just pains me that organizations I used to respect and trust have become part of the idiocy… I’d rather leave my great-grandchildren the legacy of a warmer, CO2 rich world than one that’s been bankrupted in pursuit of something that turned out to be untrue.
The self-deception that believes the lie – but never fear it’s just a flesh wound.
OK, I get that he has to show a brave face after the Democrat’s big defeat. Fine…I would expect nothing else.
Obviously the part that makes me shake my head is “and candidates paid for by corporate interests and bolstered by sinister voter suppression tactics won the day” Yes, this has been said many times before. And, yes, it is even funnier now than it was last year and the year before…as if the politicians that support the climate change movement are somehow immune to all of the nasty things that political flesh is heir to (to paraphrase Shakespeare).
In reflecting upon the election, I think the biggest lesson for the Democrats is that they have exhausted their base. Actually, their hyperbole has driven many of their supporters away (or at least made them stay home). For example, by trying to motivate women they drove away men. Assuming I am right, then the Sierra Club has problems, too. This kind of talk does nothing to expand their base…a base that can only be expanded by convincing new people to sign up for their philosophy.
Good lesson for us all.
I would not mock this man until you see what he makes.
He is rich from spouting this stuff. We should be so lucky.
True that.
These sorts of claims about the election being “good” news for Democrats (or at least, the leftist Democrats – BIRM) are all based on the ability to project the essence of “goodness” onto the hard reality that second place is actually, “First Place Loser.”
barack has attempted the same thing by claiming indirectly that his mandate is now from all of those who did not vote. Which logically includes those prevented by law from voting and those who are geographically-challenged, i.e. by living in another country. By extension, this would also mean his mandate comes from the rest of the universe, on all the uncounted worlds, from all life-forms (sentient or not).
The Celestial Mandate. It’s not just for emperors anymore.
There is a saying in Banana Republics, “Lose the streets and you lose everything.” What’s interesting is if you look at the history of overturned regimes, their leaders continue to say “the people are with me” right up to the point when they are forced to flee the country.
The implication is that Banana Republics are more democratic than those that change government by elections. Hmm.
But elections mean the failed leader doesn’t have to flee the country – so they never need to get so desperate as to do the wicked when the going gets tough.
Good insight though. It helps to think about why democracy is good. It isn’t because it is accountable to the people. In the end, every government is accountable to the people.
The people produce the power.
Most BR’s do have elections, but the same person or family always wins by wide margins. 😉
Until the streets are lost…..
Some times they never make it out of the country – like Ghaddfy.
“Lose the streets and you lose everything”
Here in the US we say “lose the streets and you will never be able to get to the grocery store”. We are more pragmatic as a people.
“Bravo” Sierra indeed. ” Who the gods would destroy, they first make mad”.
About time too.
I smell a GRUBERISM being hoisted upon us. They want us to believe the big lie that they did just fine.
“sinister voter suppression tactics”?
Is Obama left handed?