‘Climate hushing’ has swept the Democratic Party. New polling suggests it’s a mistake. Climate change might not be a top priority for voters, but keeping quiet about it might backfire.

https://grist.org/politics/climate-hushing-democrats-polling-primaries-voters/

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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 53d

Wow, what a fucking shocker - the DCCC is fundamentally out of step with understanding public sentiment once again. 🙄

Xerxos@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 53d (1 reply)

These god damn spineless Democrats should be voted out immediately!

silence7@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 53d

Quite a few states have not had their primary yet. Lots of opportunities to pick a different Democrat

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 8 pts · 53d (6 replies)

So this article has two sources, neither or which were readable on my device because of paywall or such.

Is there any actual stats on how often the DNC talk about climate change?

Even if you think they should talk more, their policy platform has very demonstably, through actions louder than words, been about green power, phasing out gas and coal, and empowering the EPA.

EDIT: Thanks to a source provided by another commenter we can see the number of mentions largely haven't changed by either party in over a decade. LINK HERE

silence7@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 53d (5 replies)

The DNC, no. There isn't even a public membership list.

There are statistics for elected Democrats in Congress though. And they really did largely stop talking about climate.

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 0 pts · 53d (4 replies)

So your article source is the same as the second source in the article in the post.

EDIT: No, sorry, my mistake, it just attempts to reproduce the data. Good source.

Looking at the raw files it appears they mentioned it a fuckload of times, though.

silence7@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 53d (3 replies)

The amount has dropped a lot though

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 0 pts · 53d (2 replies)

According to the data in the link, it was averaging 3 digits in 2021, almost a third of the current rate.

silence7@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 52d (1 reply)

Are you looking at absolute numbers or at fraction of press releases? Because there is a big difference between the two

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 1 pts · 52d

Oh okay, my apologies, clearly them mentioning climate change to the press 3 times as often is them refusing to talk about it at all. /sarcasm

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 53d

It may not be a priority for Democratic voters, but it is a priority for the majority of voters.

If you want to win votes and save lives, policy to mitigate the climate catastrophe better be in your top 5 priorities

zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 52d

So, neglecting the environment, that thing that we need to stay alive...that could backfire? Ya don't say.

philipp_@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 52d (1 reply)

Not talking about it much before the election doesn't mean not taking action after. It's stupid but fight over policy comes after the election in the flawed democracy that the US are.

silence7@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 52d

Not talking makes it a lot harder to take action. The Democratic party isn't some autocracy; it's really hard to get something to pass if you don't talk about it first.