10-05-2021, 02:27 PM
(10-05-2021, 11:44 AM)David Horn Wrote:(10-04-2021, 02:43 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The time is up to put the anthropocene in order. We are on the edge of tipping points to hothouse Earth. Two senators stand in the way. Email them! The USA is the worst offender, and inequality and the neoliberal growth/predatory capitalism ideology behind it drives us to disaster.
Let's be honest about this.
Joe Manchin started and his son still runs a coal company that pays him ~$500,000 a year. His daughter runs a generic pharmaceutical company. Is he persuadable? No.
Kyrsten Sinema was a radical Lefty who found a spotlight to stand in, and is now a total flake. Is she persuadable? No.
Persuasion is out. Threats need to be used or the entire enterprise is lost or so compromised that the difference is trivial.
I don't know what threat can be used. If Manchin and Sinema think they will benefit politically if an infrastructure bill is passed, then the threat by the progressives in the House not to support it without the bigger bill that includes the climate change provisions, might work. Or, it might not. We don't know yet. Without it, we are back to depending on the market and some actions in blue states, as long as the Court doesn't interfere with their actions to hold back climate change, and to do what they can to equal-out the financial power among the people. Meanwhile, any pressure put upon them is all we can do, so not doing it is not an option. And I wrote to my representative to tell her to support the progressives' threat. That can be done too, if you have a reasonably-progressive representative (or whoever does who might read this).