Young conservatives “discuss” climate change
by David Atkins
Mike Stark, amateur journalist and documentarian, caught up with a few young conservatives at CPAC and asked them about climate change. Here’s what happened:
What’s remarkable about this is that until the end, each and every one of them simply insisted one of three things: 1) it’s a liberal conspiracy that doesn’t exist; 2) it’s a good thing because it’s cold outside; or 3) there must be some “free market” solution out there somewhere.
Not a single person could come up with a remotely “conservative” answer to what to do about climate change.
That’s because, frankly, there isn’t one and they know it. That’s true of many things, of course, but in the case of climate change it’s so patently obvious that no “free market” conservative approach exists to deal with the problem that it becomes an existential threat to conservative philosophy.
It’s not just Koch money that prevents Republicans from coming to terms with climate change. If they ever did, it would be a tacit admission that their entire ideology is a failed fraud.
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