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The more effective way to get what you ultimately want is to offer everyone the opportunity to achieve it. Imagine if, instead of making their case to the admi
by microcolonel 8y ago
The more effective way to get what you ultimately want is to offer everyone the opportunity to achieve it.
Imagine if, instead of making their case to the administration, the advocates of the FIRST STEP Act felt it was sufficient to criticize the administration, and then give up entirely.
I see no reason why, with the right pitch, the Trump administration would be especially resistant to an effort like this. It's not as though they oppose certain "green" policies because they're "too green"; they oppose them because they are costly for, and unpopular with, their base.
Real people are not your caricatures of them.
- m0zg 8y agoYou make it sound like First Step Act did not originate within the administration. Jared Kushner was the primary driver of it since day one.
- microcolonel 8y agoYes, but it enjoyed broad support, and was progressive in substance. The assumption that the Trump administration would be futile to engage with on what could be construed as a "green" cause seems to stem from a broader assumption that they are incapable of, or resistant to, progressive policy. My point is that if you couch it in the same balanced terms, there's no reason why an equally progressive initiative in energy should be assumed to be futile.
- m0zg 8y agoBut it was the other way around: _the Trump administration_ (of which Kushner is perhaps the sharpest instrument; I had a media-distorted view of him until I watched some interviews -- dude is super smart) engaged with others in a bipartisan way to make this happen.
- microcolonel 8y agoCertainly, I get that; but I don't see why a similar effort couldn't be conducted from the outside in. Clearly it would work better to convince somebody effective within the administration to champion it, but my point was mainly that they're not inherently that resistant to it.