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Thursday, April 4, 2013

One Weird Trick for Getting Republicans to Care About Climate

Start with false premises, add traditional values and stir.
New survey results suggest that with the right spin, even Republicans can be convinced to support climate action.  It's a truism at this point to observe that Americans are deeply polarized—along party lines—on climate change. The surveys that have attested to this reality are, by now, too numerous to count.  But beneath that depressing surface, there's a less appreciated and more hopeful reality. If it were somehow possible to strip away the overlay of angry political rhetoric—not to mention doing something about all the scientific misinformation that is constantly being broadcast and rebroadcast by the likes of Rush Limbaugh—a bipartisan political consensus on climate change might really be possible.  To Read More….

My Take – What I find incredible is these people know they are framing these questions to get the answer they want in order to sway legislators to their view.  In short….they are perpetrating fraud….. and they know it.  The other thing that bothers me is how stupid legislators actually are when it comes to polls…..and they know it.  Neither seems to be able to help themselves.    Someone ought to write a book and title it “Consequences of the stupid listening to the corrupt”.  

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