You know what wins in electoral politics?
Coalitions. Messy, annoying, disappointing, grudging coalitions.
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This is a perfect example of what electoral victory looks like in real life: not awesome, not everything any of us would want, a parade of miserable disappointments ahead, but disaster averted — and maybe, maybe even moving the giant glacial ice sheet of society an inch in a positive direction.
@inthehands wait, so is the motivation to accelerate climate change to make it easier to move “the giant glacial ice sheet of society” in a negative direction?
@ShadSterling
This is a non sequitur?!
@ShadSterling
Ah, on reread, I think it was just a throwaway joke mixing the metaphorical glacier with the literal ones? If so, apologies for being dense.