Conservatives are mustache-twisting, Snidely Whiplash levels of evil. Except their goal isn’t to murder and rob a woman they’ve tied to the railroad tracks. Their goal is to murder and rob everyone on planet earth.
So, not only are these psychotic maniacs unwilling to take even the most conservative actions to stem the tide of global climate change, but they are gleefully seeking to bring about the end of humanity as soon as possible.
American conservatives and fundamentalists are heavily invested into an “End of Days” mythos – not only are they not avoiding it, they are eagerly trying to accelerate the apocalypse
I am conservative leaning and I think this is reprehensible. These people are mentally ill.
Conservatives will be the end of modern industrial society as we know it. And once things get bad enough I have absolutely no doubt they will blame everything that goes wrong on “leftists” (ie. anyone left of the Strasserites), right-wing terrorism will escalate and half the people will actually either outright support them or at least accept it
Only thing you can really do is to get involved in stopping them. If you’re in the US, that means looking up close house and senate races. Pick one or two close to you, and then support Democrats running in them with both volunteer time and money.
Leave a bit on the table for supporting Biden as well
I’m Finnish so I’m lucky in the sense that we have more than two options when picking a political party, and eg. I vote for a democratic socialist party called the Left Alliance.
On the unfortunate flipside half the country is very conservative compared to the rest of the Nordics, and our new government – who got in power by lying ceaselessly about the previous lefist government (first of its kind in almost 20 years if not more) and what exactly led to eg. our healthcare system collapsing (pro tip: it wasn’t leftists, but our “fiscal” conservatives cutting funding) – has literal neo-Nazis, and the ones who aren’t outright Nazis are so right wing that you wouldn’t really know the difference. So bigotry is now the norm (up to and including MPs and ministers having publicly fantasized about murdering leftists, immigrants and/or gay people) and our new Minister of the Environment is a climate change denialist.
Conservative is a misnomer, really. They don’t want to conserve anything. They are trying as hard as they can to wreck it all.
Too late, fortunately - the wheels of commerce are already in motion, by 2025 the mass market charger + EV rollout will be in full swing (and, itself, sending a lot of money towards grid + generation improvements) and beyond the power of Republicans to stop.
Not to mention, of course, that Republicans in states with a lot of clean energy jobs - and there are a ton of those - are going to be under tremendous pressure to oppose anything that would take them away, even if they voted against them originally.
Those jobs aren’t stopping them yet — it takes not just having people with jobs, but having the political donor class dependent on decarbonization.
All this while the US falls behind the rest of the world in renewable energy. This could have been another moonshot. We could have led the world into a new age.
Holy shit.
Do they just want to die?
checks book of Abrahamic myths - yes, yes they do
They expect to be dead before the worst of it hits the rest of us.
No, no, they expect to be raptured.
