To save the planet, we have to save democracy, first
By Sid Schwab / Herald columnist
As we look into the gray emptiness of a disappeared world, Puget Sound displaced by choking smog, the future of our planet looks back. Being blinded by smoke is a worthy metaphor for those who still deny climate change. Itll get cooler, you just watch, said Trump this week. Just as the virus went away, like a miracle.
Thus was this column first intended: discussing the most demanding and dangerous challenges we face: climate change and an administration refusing to address it. Then the week happened. Climate change must wait. Until January, this country will continue to ignore it, anyway, no matter what we say or how obvious the need. So, not now.
Because, just in the last few days, Trump and his horribles have made it even clearer that the most urgent first step to saving our planet is to save our democracy; that he and his will do and say anything to prevent it from happening. This isnt new; its just that the potential has been taken up several quanta.
Trump and his collaborators are actively encouraging armed uprising if he loses. And, hes telling us, the only way he can lose is if Democrats cheat. That popular-vote-losing-by-millions president is telling citizens to ignore the polls; if he loses, it was stolen, and they must rise up. You will see a backlash the likes of which you havent seen in many, many years, he told Jeanine Pirro, whos in a four-way tie for Fox news most evil entity.
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