McKibben Hypocrisy: ‘We need publicly financed elections’; But approves of billionaire enviro bombing Markey opponent in Mass.

Apparently, the rules of the political game should be changed so McKibben wins.

From Bill McKibben’s essay in The Nation:

… Along with some way to make a third party truly viable, we need a genuine movement for fundamental governmental reform — not just a change in the Senate’s filibuster rules, but publicly funded elections, an end to the idea that corporations are citizens, and genuine constraints on revolving-door lobbyists… One senatorial candidate, Steven Lynch, voted to build the Keystone pipeline, and that’s not okay. Maybe electing his opponent, Ed Markey, will send at least a small signal. In fact, this strategy got considerably more promising in the last few days when California hedge fund manager and big-time Democratic donor Tom Steyer announced that he was not only going to go after Lynch, but any politician of any party who didn’t take climate change seriously. “The goal here is not to win. The goal here is to destroy these people,” he said, demonstrating precisely the level of rhetoric (and spending) that might actually start to shake things up.

One thought on “McKibben Hypocrisy: ‘We need publicly financed elections’; But approves of billionaire enviro bombing Markey opponent in Mass.”

  1. No matter what you do or say, its mot going to change the facts that there has been no global warming for the last 16 years.

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