The Only Thing

All that I can say about this complaint at Jacobin that Congressional Democrats, too, are climate deniers and must be forced to take drastic action is if the author is looking for sincerity, genuineness, public-spiritedness, or foresight in the Congress, he’s looking in the wrong place. The only thing that matters to the Congressional leadership, Republican or Democratic, is power.

There is no long term remedy for this. Voting the present scoundrels out will only vote new scoundrels in. The new scoundrels may seem good enough now but in a term or two they’ll be just as bad as the old scoundrels were.