Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Why the US Is Ditching Coal as an Energy Source || Peter Zeihan" video.

@dinosaurdude5668 Politics kept coal alive. Pete is right, Manchin and McConnell kept it alive, but it wasn’t through their “gravitas”. It was because both were effective politicians with decades of experience. That coal coalition bridged the gap between Democrats and Republicans. This lead to a lot of other bipartisan cooperation. That bipartisan cooperation on other important issues strengthened the importance of Manchin and McConnell as deal makers. It’s sounds funny to say it, but the functioning government we used to enjoy was coal powered! I don’t blame “woke politics”. I blame divisive politics and the current propensity of the GOP to elect maga clowns, both the bomb throwers and the incompetent bench sitters that campaign as maga politicians loyal to Trump. Here’s the thing about the Dems’ woke politics: the Democrat’s own bomb throwing socialists were few and marginalized. The majority of liberal Dems were always closer to conservative Republicans than they were to the leftist fringe. You could say the same about the Republicans. They were closer to the liberals than the loony extreme right. And for over 30 years this is how conservative politicians advanced conservatism, even under Democrat presidents.
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[obligatory Monty Python reference]
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@nat9909 The root cause was the Sioux saying “Not in my backyard”, the same maneuver that rich folk perform when a transit project impinges on their community. The eco-freaks were recruited to help the cause, but at its heart was the same NIMBY politics used by conservatives.
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@nat9909 The root cause was the Sioux saying “Not in my backyard”, the same maneuver that rich folk perform when a transit project impinges on their community. The eco-freaks were recruited to help the cause, but at its heart was the same NIMBY politics used by conservatives.
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