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Went out for a long ski in the woods this morning, and thought about why the @nytimes editorial rankled me so much. It had nothing to do with their picks, and everything to do with the depiction of @klobuchar as 'realist' and @SenWarren as 'radical.' (i.e., 'unrealistic')
In the field I know best, climate change, the 'adversary' is physics. Because we have waited (thanks to the fossil fuel industry) so long to get started, physics leaves us no choice but to move very swiftly. Say, at the speed envisioned by people like @warren or @SenSanders
That doesn't make her radical--it makes her far more realistic, in any meaningful sense of the word, than those who think we still have room for politically easier, less robust approaches. That's not 'realism,' that's the opposite: a kind of pleasant fantasy
Thread here. I'm beginning to worry about the 2020 election. There are so many Dems, and so much passion, that it seems to me great damage could be done unless real care is taken. Some of that is on the candidates, but some of it is on us, and I have a small idea that might help.
The toxicity that defines so much of Twitter--whether it comes from bots or real but entirely unrestrained people--may lead to such bitter feelings and such deep divides that Trump, despite his unpopularity, wins again. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
And if a second Trump term happens, then literally none of the things we care about--federal minimum wage, health care for all, climate laws, immigration reform etc etc etc--can possibly happen. Also, we'll all lose our minds.
