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I keep threatening a magnum opus on climate change and the next election season, but I lie, you see, I can't help but lie and lie and lie...anywho, here's the Cliff Notes - let's pretend (pretend) that the '06 mid-terms pay dividends for the Dems, via a fear and scandal weary electorate. However, this is the same party that seems utterly incapable of addressing Iraq (which, aside from being, you know, hideously racist, also happens to be incredibly costly and generally a sad fuck-around for just about - just about - anyone who's involved). Can you imagine, then, that party, as it's constituted today and probably will be in the fall of 2006, having the wherewithall to make hard choices about something like this? Or like this?
Let's take it another step, daydream believer - the fall-out from climate change will quite possibly necessitate government spending and federal programs that will rival the Great Society and the New Deal (let's be serious - the private-public partnership's a sham when the chips are down, and the house will be calling them all in over the next twenty-five years or so. Can you really see, then, the families Walton and the Koch coming through in the clutch with "common-sense, win-win solutions", or looking for high, dry ground?) With that in mind, consider this: one of the many sad, though perhaps fortunately unrealized truths of 2004, was that if the Kerry-Edwards ticket just happened to have stumbled into the White House last fall, the Movement To Impeach would've begun the Monday next, you betcha. Can you imagine, then, the remnants of the Noise Machine - which has about has much relationship to the real world as 2010 does to 2001 - making it easy for a Biden (ick) or H. Clinton Administration (ack) plunking down hard earned corporate tax dollars for a fully realized version of this? (Are you kidding, commie queerbait? Everyone knows you have to fight global warming with tax cuts!)
This won't mean a whole bunch since we're all going to die of toxic birdshit flu and there's a good chance that the planet decides to Not Pass Go and make for another Ice Age. But in the meantime, the prospect of living in a radically different world does not seem to be something anyone among the Loyal Opposition wants to talk about, even though saving America might just be a good thing to run on in the next couple of years, with the fucking android superstorms and all. And as the land and seascapes begin to shift and change around us, what should be a crusade to leverage all of the power of the federal government to prepare us for what's to come will probably end up like a tonight-i'm-gonna-party-like-it's-1999 version of this, but with some job training and tax credits for community college classes the Dems will toss in with great fanfare about staying true to the principles of FDR, Kennedy, etc, blah.
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