by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
While I love them dearly, talking to my conservative relatives can be frustrating at times. Take, for instance, global climate change. They tell me on one hand that, in the end, technology may solve the crisis and, yet, when the free market comes up with things like ESG to facilitate that very thing — they get really, really angry.
So, it seems as though the only acceptable solution to global climate change for conservatives is, much like the gun violence crisis — no solution.
The only thing that most modern conservatives care about at the moment is “owning the libs.” That’s it. Over 200 children could die in a mass casualty event involving an AR-15 and conservatives would shrug, say “thought and prayers” and then piviot to this or that thing that they felt the libs had screwed up.
The earth could grow so hot that it was obvious that life on earth would soon be extinguished and conservatives would pivot to talking about the border crisis or the excesses of the Trans movement.
It’s shit like this that I find very troubling. It definitely seems that the absolute need to “own the libs” could very well force the existential choice of autocracy or civil war in late 2024, early 2025. That definitely seems to be the endgame for that particular urge on the part of Republicans.
I don’t have a ready answer for you. It just seems like we’re fucked.
