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Why aren’t Democrats talking about climate? (heated.world)
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But for how important this election will be for Planet Earth and the humans who live on it, the issue itself isn’t getting much airtime. Earlier this month, The Guardian examined the campaign websites of Democratic and Republican Senate candidates in eight battleground states. Of all the candidates surveyed, only two explicitly mentioned climate change.

This retreat hasn’t happened by accident. Over the last two years, some of the Democratic Party’s most influential strategists, donors, and think tanks have been explicitly telling candidates to shut up about climate change and focus on the economy instead—as if those were two separate issues.

It’s a strategy known as climate hushing. And with the midterms fast-approaching, it’s worth asking: Who convinced Democrats that ignoring climate change was a winning strategy? Does the evidence actually support that argument? And what is that silence costing the rest of us?

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[–] 5 points 5 hours ago

I'm not going to write a bespoke reply for every single person saying the same thing so I'm going to just copy and paste this around:

First, I'm going to have to ask for evidence for that. We have a quarter century of reality we can measure these claims against and see how they hold up. Second, there's no point in arguing against a position whose proponent won't substantiate, so until that happens I'll rely on a good old appeal to authority: Abdul El Sayed, possibly the most successful progressive this election, is outspoken about his climate policy, the right is going totally insane about it and he's winning anyway. In the absence of better evidence, this is fatal for your argument.

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