Fuck those people then. The democrats should not allow a small portion of the population to dictate something as important as climate policy.

The only way this argument makes any sense is if we assume the democrats are spineless and useless. Which they are, but still.

I don’t buy it. It feels like these vague arguments are used against any progressive policy. “We can’t tax the rich cause then they’ll leave the country!”

If fossil fuel workers are so stubborn that they will refuse to vote for a party that wants to transition them into green energy jobs then their votes aren’t worth it. If the democratic party allows the workers of a single industry to determine their climate policy then they are revealing themselves to be spineless and useless politicians.

Democrats could minimize these issues if they communicated better. If they just said “fracking destroys our communities and hurts americans. We are going to invest in green energy and training fracking workers to transition to different industries”.

It’s like how they aren’t pointing out that undocumented migrants are regular tax paying people, and deporting them would be horrible. Instead of doing that they’ve moved further to the right and now are campaigning about how Trump blocked their awful border bill.

Democrats only have themselves to blame. They have absolutely no idea what they are doing.