Many folks here in North Carolina still don’t think that #ClimateChange is real, even though we keep experiencing 1,000-year rain events and our roads, bridges, homes, businesses, farms, and livelihoods are getting washed away. What do you think might help convince them that it’s real, and that Republicans will halt all progress on protecting us?
@CanisPundit I haven’t dared drive anywhere behind the local grocery store. Diverting traffic onto the “still okay” roads is wearing them out, and I have zero faith in our NCDOT “fixes” implemented to keep travel going. People are experiencing HOURS long waits in traffic. If we were told to evacuate, NOBODY COULD.
You mean beyond the store?
Autocorrect at work?
Horrifying.
Folks who say they are tired with politics, need to realize it is politics that will reverse the climate crisis.
We aren’t motivated to develop a global plan in our kitchens.
@cassandra17lina less than half of Republicans believe in climate change, and even fewer believe that human activity is a significant cause. Younger Republicans are more apt to believe in climate change. Maybe try to convince young people to vote, and on election day, let the air out of the tires of older Republicans?
@cassandra17lina as Gawd said to Noah, How long can you tread water❓
@cassandra17lina The only thing I can think of is to vote them out. Replace them with people who aren't anti-science.
@danielbsmith We have three AWESOME candidates running against our feckless County Commissioners. The incumbents have allowed rampant overdevelopment while raking in contributions from developers.
@cassandra17lina
For MAGAs, belief is belonging.
The question is akin to how do you deprogram a cult with 100 million members?
I think it starts with them believing in something greater than MAGA, but I can't see what that could be
@BrentSullivan @cassandra17lina
Multi-generational racism.
@LnzyHou @BrentSullivan @cassandra17lina Yes. The South never surrendered. Not really. They passed on their racism to their children's children's children and current affairs are the result.
@danielbsmith @LnzyHou @cassandra17lina
True to a point. Some of us escaped.
I think I escaped when I grasped that ability is evenly distributed while opportunity has gatekeepers.
My grandparents were unconscious racists--ie they weren't aware of their racism
My parents were conscious of their racism and worked at reducing it.
I'm occasionally aware of vestigial racism in my attitudes and work against it, trying to be anti-racist, as Ibram X Kendi puts it
My kid only others bigots
@danielbsmith @LnzyHou @BrentSullivan It’s not just a southern phenomenon. The Tea Party concept of “I’ve got mine; screw everybody else” has been weaponized nationwide. The cruelty is the point. Follow Dear Leader who makes it okay to vilify women, immigrants, the disabled, the poor, veterans, LGBTQ folks, anyone “other.” The haters never imagine that one day, THEY’LL be in the crosshairs.
@cassandra17lina @danielbsmith @BrentSullivan
Exactly where they will find themselves on November 5, 2024.
@danielbsmith @BrentSullivan @cassandra17lina
My white Detroit-born parents passed their racism off to their kids. Blacks & Jews alike.
Didn’t work with me. From a very young age, I wouldn’t let anyone say N word or other disgusting names depending on race they were maligning.
I view my northern family as white trash. No matter how much wealth my siblings have, their ignorant racism nullifies any success in my eyes.
Oh and let’s add in MAGA.
@cassandra17lina There was a story on Sunday Morning in past couple of years about an island off of Virginia or Carolinas that is slowly disappearing as waters rise. A whole town and community is being engulfed.
Many RESIDENTS interviewed were STILL in denial. They blamed it on simple erosion. (There is increased erosion BECAUSE of rising waters, but they refuse to connect the dots.)
Denial has become part of their identity to the point they can't accept it even as it engulfs them.
@cassandra17lina just “wow”.