OH Young Republicans "Concerned" About Environment, But Can't Even Say "Climate Change"

[hatrack]

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“There’s disagreement there with Donald Trump,” said Tex Fischer, a 22-year-old conservative Ohioan with a head of unruly hair. “I don’t personally know anyone involved in young, right-of-center politics that doesn’t believe climate change is an issue. “I think conservatives for a long time have been too willing to just let this be a leftwing issue. We can talk about this. Conservatives that care about the environment do exist.”

Fischer heads campus operations for the American Conservation Coalition (ACC), a Republican youth group founded 18 months ago but already with a presence in 125 colleges across the US, holding events and organizing campaigns. In January, 41 state college Republican chairs signed an ACC letter to GOP leaders urging “action on clean energy and environmental issues” to ensure “conservative values are not lost on the next generation”.

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Much like superstitious actors talking backstage at a production of Macbeth, the protagonists in the Temple climate change event dare not mention the subject of their gathering. “Climate change” is not uttered in an hour of discussion, rejected in favour of uncontroversial bromides such as job-creating “energy diversification”, the conservation accomplishments of Teddy Roosevelt and the national security benefits of American-sourced energy.

“We love it when market forces produce a better product, right?” said Chad Forcey, head of a conservative clean energy organization, to vigorous nods as he flicked through slides showing the plummeting cost of solar energy. The Green New Deal, Forcey said, is “ridiculous. They’ve blended it with socialism and identity politics. What we’re trying to do is something a lot more practical.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/11/we-can-talk-about-this-millennial-republicans-take-a-methodical-approach-to-climate-change

[safeinOhio]

1. 4 years ago I was working a few days a week

at a Mall in Ohio. Kid I was working with was the president of the local college Young Republicans. We got in a discussion about Canadian Health care. He went on and on with the Fox news version of how terrible it was and how they didn't like it and they were all coming to the US for health care.

A little later a nicely dressed man came in and we were talking to him. He wanted us to come look at the car he had in a trailer in the parking lot. It was a beautiful 30s Packard with a 100% restore. Very expensive.
I asked where he was from and he said Canada. So, I asked about health care and if he liked their system. He said he love theirs. So, I asked if would rather have our system and he said "Hell no".

The kid quite talking to me after that.

[Ohiogal]

2. Yep, they all parrot Fox news

That’s a great story. If only the closed minded right wing could pry open their brains one in a while....