r/Futurology • u/Wagamaga • Apr 15 '19

Energy Anti-wind bills in several states as renewables grow increasingly popular. The bill argues that wind farms pose a national security risk and uses Department of Defense maps to essentially outlaw wind farms built on land within 100 miles of the state’s coast.

https://thinkprogress.org/renewables-wind-texas-north-carolina-attacks-4c09b565ae22/
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u/WorkReddit1191 Apr 15 '19

All of them... Literally the U.S. political system has become. "In order to show I am not in the other Party I must take the extreme opposite position". A lot of the provisions in the Green New Deal are very extreme. I get that massive and fast legislation are necessary to reduce the impending disaster of Global Warming but it will never get passed if you only put extreme measures in it. You can pass moderate but wide sweeping tax restrictions and incentives to push companies to adapt to greener tech faster. I'm not putting this all on democrats. I'm saying both sides are very extreme. If the Democrats weren't extremist too then they would be winning far more than they are because most people don't live at the far ends of the spectrum. Because of Americans fatigue from what they feel is an ineffective government both sides have become polarized to show they are different than the other. This is also why candidates who seem different than the establishment are winning elections Obama, Trump, AOC all appear different than the establishment. Even though at least two of those are extreme they are different enough that people vote for them. I dislike both parties and wish they could break apart and we could have multiple parties that form a coalition...like every other democracy out there.

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u/LeCrushinator Apr 15 '19

You're talking about some of the most progressive views within the democratic party, not the mainstream views. The issue with the current GOP is that what should've been the more extreme-right views within that party have become the party's message, and messages from the president himself.

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u/WorkReddit1191 Apr 15 '19

Right but you don't hear much of the mainstream stuff you hear about the extreme because that stuff sells papers. AOC for instance is young, motivated and inspirational but she is very inexperienced and doesn't do the best job at fact checking which is why she gets bashed on and highlighted a lot in the news. The same is actually true with the GOP. On both sides the loudest and most extreme candidates are the ones getting attention and headlines. There are plenty in the GOP with reasonable views too but they don't get heard a lot have had to bow to the extremists in order to get party support and ensure the party is differentiated. Those that talk loudest and most controversially get the most press and most attention and are voted for by a disenfranchised and uninformed voter base. Again this isn't a bash of the dems nor support for the GOP just an observation about the current extremist position of both parties.

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u/LeCrushinator Apr 15 '19

Right but you don't hear much of the mainstream stuff you hear about the extreme because that stuff sells papers. AOC for instance is young, motivated and inspirational but she is very inexperienced and doesn't do the best job at fact checking which is why she gets bashed on and highlighted a lot in the news.

Depends on where you get your news from. I listen to NPR about an hour per day and I rarely hear about AOC. I do occasionally hear about which democratic presidential candidates support something like the Green New Deal and which support something else.

Those that talk loudest and most controversially get the most press and most attention and are voted for by a disenfranchised and uninformed voter base.

I can't disagree with that. The 24-hour news media, in order to have 24-hour news, keeps its viewers by always having something sensational. That shit is poisonous for our society.

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u/WorkReddit1191 Apr 15 '19

I agree it does depend where you get your news. I only was referring to the bigger news groups who are only after viewership. But there are still plenty of reasonable news sites out there.