Why the DNC Doesn’t Want a Climate Debate — It Actually Makes Perfect Sense.
The Democratic party and the nominees are highly intelligent people, they know what’s happening to the climate, they know that climate change will have devastating consequences for their constituents, their country, and the planet as a whole. So why don’t they welcome the chance to showcase their candidates' progressive ideas and further distinguish themselves as the party of the future?
The answer from the DNC chairman Tom Perez is that if they granted the request for a climate-focused primary debate, “they’d have to change their guidelines and say yes to every other candidate’s issue-specific debate ideas that they’ve made central to their own campaigns.” This is 100% pure nonsense. The DNC has full authority to treat the debates any way it likes — whatever guidelines they have are just that, guidelines, and they can be changed. So now that we’ve got that settled, let’s look at the real story.
When you zoom out and look at the big picture it begins to make perfect sense.
