Democratic Primaries

ancianita

(36,014 posts) Thu Aug 22, 2019, 01:59 PM Aug 2019

Woke 2020 Does Not Put Jay Inslee & the Pentagon On The Shelf

Last edited Thu Aug 22, 2019, 02:31 PM - Edit history (1)

This is every bit about the primary and general election that we're moving on to.

Inslee's left, but everything he's said and done is not gone.

UNLESS we backburner climate change. Then everything is gone.

UNLESS you see the disasters, you can't understand how climate does not care about your political issues. Climate change does not care about your justice. Climate will only respond to your attention to Earth.

Remember that when not talking about climate change, Inslee had also been ignored -- yes, ignored, in the rush to clay pigeon shoot him down as a one-issue candidate -- about his other accomplishments on

employment,
family leave,
gun control,
women's issues,
utility reconfiguration to clean energy,
permaculture development in agriculture, etc.

Regardless, I still hold that climate change should never, ever be second to the so-called issues of the 2020 campaign.

Because Inslee has had a state to run, he didn't daily hit the campaign trail to remind oblivious Americans, or Americans habitually distracted by their identity issues, or Americans who don't want to think long term, about how climate change work will solve a lot of other "issues" they want other candidates to solve.

At this moment or the short "grace period" climate change gives us, we Americans do not get to benignly shelve Inslee's climate and campaign work without paying dearly.

Before Americans "move on," they need to give Inslee one last review.

1.
Of all the candidates whose issues are PLANS, Jay Inslee STILL stands out as the only one who has already DONE the following in his state:

-- Marijuana laws
-- free college tuition laws,
-- clean energy laws,
-- immigration laws,
-- income inequality and minimum wage laws,
-- family leave laws,
-- union laws,
-- sweeping voter registration laws.

He sued Trump over the Muslim ban and won -- multiple times.

Inslee, like America's Millennials, is still a doer, not a talker.

Sure, the primaries are for people to stand up for candidates with the best ideas and records. And being right is what Democrats do best.

But not just Democrats -- we ALL -- have to learn that being right and DOING right are the real proof of presidential executive know-how.
Right now, Biden, very arguably, fills that slot.

2.
BUT Jay Inslee stands right now as more accomplished than Biden or Sanders or Harris or Warren.
Like the rest of the Democratic candidates, Inslee's been on Rachel Maddow, ABC,NBC, CBS, Bill Maher and all kinds of media interviews. All while governing a state, while the other candidates are not.

3.
Jay Inslee has implemented scaleable models for transforming energy;
he's implemented construction models for the country, and
he vows to re-establish America's international work with other countries doing the same things through the Paris Climate Accord.

As for realistic PLANS, Jay Inslee's Climate Change Mobilization Project is far reaching beyond our borders, and will be taken seriously by America's allies.

Jay Inslee still stands as the only Democratic leader who knows how to do what it takes to stay below the 2 degree Celsius threshhold from which THERE WILL BE NO RETURN, and how to get the funding to do it.

4.
What STILL makes Governor Jay Inslee the best qualified?

As a state governor, he'll run for a third term. The only CURRENT governor who has run for president for 2020.

Inslee is still governor of the #1 ranked state in America. His two terms as governor have been a whole level of executive experience -- "execution" of decisions, law writing, shepherding bills through both parties of the statehouse, implementing and monitoring laws -- experience that none of the other Democratic candidates have. None of them.

Inslee has spent NINE terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, therefore has had a federal knowledge of its processes in serving both national interests and his state's interests -- a breadth of governing experience the other candidates don't have. He lost his House seat because he cared more about DOING his job than KEEPING his job, and voted to KEEP THE ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN.

As past president of the National Governors Association, Inslee still has good relations with a lot of red state governors -- experience the other candidates haven't got.

There is no oppo research on Jay Inslee -- he's clean.

His donor list was clean -- unions, SIX FIRST NATIONS TRIBES, university and tech money.

Inslee's also had the chops for a national debate. AND he's got zingers like "Trump couldn't run a two-car funeral..." "Trump is the #1 threat to our national security," and others. If all it takes is for any of our Democratic candidates not to lose in front of Trump, he'd have handily won the Democratic Party's cause.

Finally, and not for nothing, his YOUTH put him into the same age advantage category as the younger candidates.

Inslee will continue to be a green new deal torch bearer. Inslee has already ...

-- made scalable green projects in his state,
-- developed green banking,
-- assured our allies of our future commitment to foreign energy policy, and
-- signaled markets on how to grow trillions of dollars while decreasing national debt.

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Jay Inslee has put forward Two Big Plans, solid in science and funding sources, one of which he's already implementing in his state as you read this.

He has open sourced both his (domestic) Evergreen Economy Program, and his (international) Global Climate Mobilization Program at his departure from the 2020 presidential race.

In my view, Jay Inslee's departure from the 2020 presidential race is America's loss.

It is my deepest conviction that because of Jay Inslee, there's still time to learn what a first green president can do.

There may be time left to ensure a way for our grandchildren and Earth -- by putting climate change projects first in executive and legislative action -- to have life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness without unnecessary economic or physical suffering. But not too much time.

In my view, to shelve Inslee's programs with the best of intentions, or to kick like a can down the road the climate change manhattan project we must start, is to invite passive acceptance of global catastrophe. Climate change doesn't postpone itself for all the "issues" your candidates have, and no amount of blame gaming this WH occupant will stop it, either.

Or, because climate change absolutely does not care about Americans' political or other concerns, there will come the time to learn how our grandchildren will never forgive our excuses, our bad spending, our crisis management, as we turned away from a global problem we had a short time to solve for them.

They will not forget how we could have taken the time up front to save our economy, our Constitution and the Earth at the same time, justice from bottom to top.

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