Where Was Kamala?

Last week, Dr. Rick Lippin, a friend and the leader of an online group of thought leaders, asked this question:

Would someone please explain to me why Climate Change wasn’t a major issue in the recent Trump/Harris Presidential Election? (It was barely mentioned or covered) Extreme weather if not disasters are now at ALL our doorsteps in the US?

I responded:

It seems like there are only two possibilities: 1) the Harris campaign missed the value of focusing on Climate Change in their issue-benefit calculus. OR 2) The Harris campaign issue-benefit calculus led them to realize that focusing on Climate Change would provoke a response that would have a net-negative effect on their overall campaign. I think the latter.

I think they understood our populations’ current lack of understanding of the implications of Climate Change. I think they were well aware of the tragic human cost consequences of not changing our climate related trajectory. I think they likely thought about it something like this:

• Most of our population doesn’t understand the profound effects of Climate Change.
• It’s in the best interests of predatory-parasitic wealth to manipulate our population away from understanding those effects because a climate conscious population could cost them trillions per year.
• We can’t compensate for our population’s lack of understanding of climate change (or any other critical issue) by engaging in a behavioral-opinion manipulation competition with Trump, Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos et al. They have the money and own the world’s most powerful mass manipulation systems.
• Anything we put out will become a caricatured punching bag sucking up already too short voter attention spans.
• Making climate change a major issue will hurt us not help us. Let’s deal with climate when we get elected.

In other words they calculated that the population could not learn to understand and appreciate what’s at stake in time to benefit the campaign. It was an issue lost due to insufficient population learning.

What struck me most about the question was how it reveals the understandably cynical calculus the left seems to have baked into their voter behavior models.

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