Climate Change May Usher GOP Into Ice Age

[babylonsister]

Generation Green

Once derided as tree huggers, eco-friendly youth are now the nation's most powerful (and feared) voting bloc. So why isn't the GOP listening?

By David S. Bernstein


Republicans have a lot to say about the immorality of saddling the next generation with our national debt. But when it comes to leaving them a wrecked, depleted, and rapidly warming planet, they are taking the exact opposite line.

That's especially odd when you consider how important that next generation is to the faltering GOP — and how broadly united those voters, known as Millennials, are in their concern over global warming and other energy and environment issues.

GOP leaders claim to be courting these young adults, but that apparently extends only to their use of Twitter and promises of a "hip-hop" party makeover. Meanwhile, they seem intent on not just opposing but wildly denouncing and denigrating this generation's most unifying issue.

Even the most senior Republican leaders, and the top GOP lawmakers on energy and environment committees, keep shooting themselves in the foot by spewing antiquated, anti-science nonsense.

If they continue this type of Neanderthal posturing, the GOP is going to lose something a lot more valuable than its old moderates, like Pennsylvania senator Arlen Specter, who last week switched parties to become a Democrat.

Those who study Millennial politics say that the Republican Party is on the verge of completely alienating the coming generation — just as previous controversial platforms it has endorsed ensured that the party kissed off such huge demographic swaths as African-Americans, single women, and Hispanics, who at present vote overwhelmingly Democratic.

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[lob1]

1. I heard somewhere yesterday, maybe on Keith or Rachel,

that the republican party was born when the Whig party died, and in the beginning, their only duty was to say "no" to the democratic party. It looks like things have come full circle.

[LakeSamish706]

2. I see one very big problem with the Repugs. The far right radicals have taken...

control of the party. My guess is that the moderates will begin to fight back soon to regain control.

[opihimoimoi]

4. The Far Right Radicals can claim the Prize of total Destruction of

THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE ON THE PLANET....THE GOP PARTY

Reduced to ashes...the GOP Ponder their very existence and near future.....its like watching a horror show...they still don't get it...they still in denial as to where to go....they keep going in circles....What is it about the GOP that they cannot see...as in VISION?? are they that MYOPIC???

I guess so as we continue to see evidence of BULLYISM .....

[pscot]

7. The only problem with moderate Republicans

is that none have been seen for the last 20 years. They're as rare as drugstore soda fountains.

[IDFbunny]

8. The nunfundies may split off to the libertarians.

just guessing. The libertarians within the gop are frustrated by the conservative stranglehold.

[AnneD]

3. How convenient, considering their Neanderthal thinking......

So when do I get my DUzzy

[Soylent Brice]

5. i couldn't make it past this:

"...eco-friendly youth are now the nation's most powerful (and feared) voting bloc. So why isn't the GOP listening?"

because they're fucking stupid.

duh.

[tanyev]

6. Ideology uber alles.