Thread by @mhbx

Quit focusing on the details of the #GreenNewDeal as if that is the field of battle. You are trying to present a posture of "change" while wanting to change nothing that affects your world view &/or (very limited) constituency.
There are real problems to solve.

https://twitter.com/SenateGOP/status/1105886204879351808

All your facts and figures presented in this video are meaningless. Like your calculating how many bottles of water to throw on the forest fire before you'll do anything. Meanwhile, the forest burns, & your calculations are already out of date.

I wish. I wish upon a star (that shows how hopeless we are) that you, GOP, GOP Senate, All so called Political Leaders (this is not a partisan issue) would stop. Stop the shouting & the fighting to realize there is a real problem that requires real deep thinking & response.

Your toy gun solutions, designed to appear like something is happening, I mean you finally did admit the Climate is changing- hooray!, seem more purposed to distract than to understand, must less address, and lesser still to solve the problem.

Here is how we will know that the ground of conversation has actually changed: When our (so-called) leaders, Like these SenGOP folk, start talking in terms of We, & not Them. (& vv.). And better. When the ideas & discussion are not stated in terms of "Republican or Democrat".

One of the GREAT deceptions we live within, It is the air we breathe, and the framework through which all of our most important issues are organized is the notion of "Bi-Partisan". And worse...Dem vs Repub. As if these 2 POV encompassed the range of ways to frame & understand

an issue. Daily, issues are presented as resolved if there is bi-partisan agreement, and fraught if only one party is advancing an idea.
This simplicity is a serious flaw in our ability to think. Much less "think differently". Or as commonly said, "out of the box".

No. The so-called BiPartisan solutions are simply the "box" that we must get past if we are to in fact, and in deed come to grips, in reality, with the magnitude of the issues that are before us. Climate change is a foundational one. And.... there are So, Many, Others.

So #GreenNewDeal may be a pie in the eye contribution to the debate. Rather than engaging it as the target, how about engaging it as an idea...Not complete, certainly not perfect, but an attempt to wonder about the issue(s) in a different light.

Perhaps we will see something new. If we find ourselves, remarkably, willing to look at old, intractable things anew.

Lincoln's great insight is always relevant at this point.

As our times are new, we must think anew. We must disenthrall ourselves from the dogmas of the quiet past. And so we may save ourselves.

It is this, thinking anew, together, or war.
We seem rather to be girding up for war.

Which reminds of another profoundly sad moment from Lincoln: "... and so the war came."

We are at our own unique precipice, facing choices no less consequential, though very different in content, the structure is all too familiar.
Time to break free of the horrible bounds of the worn out bromides re history and actually learn something.

Because, increasingly, it is not a choice we get to make any more-- the "history" of the last 30yrs, is now reifying & simplifying the options we have available, collapsing the range of choices into increasingly shrill and binary terms.

Now What? What's next?

The old question of Hamlet come to speak to us: 'To be or not to be....that is the question."

It may be what we have to grapple with is just this basic. That we have to answer, in a deep way we are unaccustomed to deal with, this very axiomatic question.

What is Next? depends on the answer we come up with.

And besides all that - going back to the GOP video clip - your music is horrid.