Patrick Walker
Nov 7 · 2 min read

I absolutely have to jump in here, at the risk of seeming self-promotional. In reality, I’m mainly applying a piece of crucial Caity Johnson insight to the climate emergency — by far humanity’s most important issue.

In the most highlighted sentence from Caity’s piece, she says, “ The only reason a Trump supporter and a Democrat believe they want Assange prosecuted for different reasons is because they’ve each been fed different narratives corresponding to the values of their respective ideological echo chambers.”

How true! Yet what no one (besides me) is saying is that Caity’s brilliant insight applies to the climate issue. The Republican echo chamber is fed the message that climate change doesn’t exist; the Democrat one, in a far more subtle and sinister way, is fed the message that it exists but isn’t an emergency that we must make top priority PRONTO.

The best illustration of this Dembot brainwashing is the charge chosen for Trump’s impeachment. Anyone serious about the climate emergency would demand Trump’s impeachment for the crime against humanity of ecocide — his aggressively worsening humanity’s worst emergency ever (reflected notably in his insane withdrawal from the Paris climate accord). Yet Democrats choose a Ukraine scandal that has NOTHING to do with major issues that could offend their donors or reflect badly on the party. Democrats’ chosen charge is a deeply sinister form of anti-climate brainwashing.

Here’s the new piece where I say all that and more. If you hate dangerous propaganda — as Caity’s followers should — please read and share it WIDELY. https://medium.com/@patrickwalker_77969/hijacking-the-impeachment-debate-for-climates-sake-8191b8c54ede