Why Democrats aren’t talking about climate change much anymore

 (Aaaaannnd yes, this is what I was talking about when I said Greta jumped on the Palestine/Gaza flotilla bandwagon to try to regain some of her disappearing clout. No one is talking about Global Warming (boo?) anymore. Not even those folks who turned it into their own person cash cow. Greta was the face and the voice of affected moral superiority addressing a dying cause, one that never produced the results Al Gore promised all those decades ago in An Inconvenient Truth.)

(It's sad when a child PR asset comes to realize her 'cause' has bottomed out and no one wants to hear her self-righteous scolding voice anymore. Especially if that's all she knows. Pretending to care about something. Oh wait! Gaza!!! Problem solved.)  

from Grist

Nearly a year after the 2024 election, Democrats are still trying to figure out what went wrong. In the midst of this soul-searching, a new piece of advice has appeared: “Don’t say climate change.” 

That’s the takeaway from a recent poll by the Searchlight Institute, a new Democratic think tank. Americans said they see climate change as a problem, but it’s rarely one of their top issues — voters in battleground states are more concerned with affordability and health care. But when asked which issue they think the Democratic Party prioritizes, climate change was number one. 

This mismatch might explain, at least in part, why Democrats often get portrayed as out of touch. “Advocates and elected officials should understand that their messages are actively weakened by a focus on ‘climate’ over affordability and low energy prices, and that voters are looking for immediate help with rising costs rather than solutions to abstract problems,” Searchlight’s post about the polling said.

The results didn’t surprise Representative Sean Casten, an Illinois Democrat and longtime climate champion who’s been making the case that clean energy can lower electricity bills. Casten recently unveiled draft legislation called the Cheap Energy Agenda, along with Representative Mike Levin, a California Democrat...

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