Hmmm 🤔. The Democrats attempt to rebuild their Party! Can anyone name a Democratic policy position that is popular with normal people?? DEI?? Open borders?? Transgender surgery for minors? Boys playing girls’ sports and sharing locker rooms with them??
Before rebuilding anything, the Dems have to realize that most sane people view the Dem positions as repulsive 🤮. Like any program for recovery, the first step is to acknowledge the problem. I see virtually no sincere efforts by Dems to acknowledge their fundamental issues. Rather, they continue to be energized by their self destructive hate for Trump. Their TDS appears to be in stage four, metastasizing as we speak and bringing today’s Democratic Party closer to a merciful death. It can’t happen soon enough.
They do have policy positions that are popular, but those are typically espoused by the more moderate Dems. The party has decided to follow the lefties in emphasizing the positions you mention, and that is the source of their problems. Unfortunately, the lefties are the most passionate players at the moment, and the Democratic Party is going to have a hard time breaking away from those loser positions as a result.
Witness what the Democrats are trying to do to John Fetterman: members of his own staff are circulating rumors that he is cognitively unwell. Because he has recently issued moderate policy statements, criticized some of the insane Leftist positions of Democrats, and refused to join the “Trump is Hitler” bandwagon. For stating things with which the majority of his constituents agree, members of his own staff are whispering he is crazy. Just how Soviet is that?
Stored energy. I’m neither a scientist nor engineer but I spent several years working with both on developing reliable and cost effective stored energy solutions. A couple of observations. One, people keep waiting for some breakthrough technology that magically make sustainable energy viable everywhere. IMO achieving incremental progress is the better approach and focusing on niche opportunities sustainable/stored energy solutions will yield better results. Rather than the wasteful and impractical all in “Green New Deal” approach.
I think people believe they can "will" the breakthrough into existence by requiring it via law. That, if forced to, industry will find a way and figure it out. Most don't understand the problem, so they cannot fathom that a solution can't be found.
I have no beef with renewables in a free market. I have a massive beef with renewables as currently being implemented, with mandates, direct coercion, and disparate economic treatment skewing market realities.
Re pwr storage: In the 1900's Navy [read: "back in my day"], we used an "Uninterruptible Power System" (UPS) to carry the building load for merely the few minutes it took for the generators to come on line during commercial power outages. UPS was comprised primarily of gigantic battery banks as large as an entire floor of the building. I realize battery technology has improved a thousand fold since then, but the idea of storing enough solar and wind power to serve the vagaries of nature for an entire country is truly mindboggling.
When I first saw *AI Gore* I thought it stood for *Artificially Intelligent* 🤭
Hmmm 🤔. The Democrats attempt to rebuild their Party! Can anyone name a Democratic policy position that is popular with normal people?? DEI?? Open borders?? Transgender surgery for minors? Boys playing girls’ sports and sharing locker rooms with them??
Before rebuilding anything, the Dems have to realize that most sane people view the Dem positions as repulsive 🤮. Like any program for recovery, the first step is to acknowledge the problem. I see virtually no sincere efforts by Dems to acknowledge their fundamental issues. Rather, they continue to be energized by their self destructive hate for Trump. Their TDS appears to be in stage four, metastasizing as we speak and bringing today’s Democratic Party closer to a merciful death. It can’t happen soon enough.
Very well said, totally agree.
They do have policy positions that are popular, but those are typically espoused by the more moderate Dems. The party has decided to follow the lefties in emphasizing the positions you mention, and that is the source of their problems. Unfortunately, the lefties are the most passionate players at the moment, and the Democratic Party is going to have a hard time breaking away from those loser positions as a result.
Witness what the Democrats are trying to do to John Fetterman: members of his own staff are circulating rumors that he is cognitively unwell. Because he has recently issued moderate policy statements, criticized some of the insane Leftist positions of Democrats, and refused to join the “Trump is Hitler” bandwagon. For stating things with which the majority of his constituents agree, members of his own staff are whispering he is crazy. Just how Soviet is that?
Stored energy. I’m neither a scientist nor engineer but I spent several years working with both on developing reliable and cost effective stored energy solutions. A couple of observations. One, people keep waiting for some breakthrough technology that magically make sustainable energy viable everywhere. IMO achieving incremental progress is the better approach and focusing on niche opportunities sustainable/stored energy solutions will yield better results. Rather than the wasteful and impractical all in “Green New Deal” approach.
I think people believe they can "will" the breakthrough into existence by requiring it via law. That, if forced to, industry will find a way and figure it out. Most don't understand the problem, so they cannot fathom that a solution can't be found.
I have no beef with renewables in a free market. I have a massive beef with renewables as currently being implemented, with mandates, direct coercion, and disparate economic treatment skewing market realities.
Re pwr storage: In the 1900's Navy [read: "back in my day"], we used an "Uninterruptible Power System" (UPS) to carry the building load for merely the few minutes it took for the generators to come on line during commercial power outages. UPS was comprised primarily of gigantic battery banks as large as an entire floor of the building. I realize battery technology has improved a thousand fold since then, but the idea of storing enough solar and wind power to serve the vagaries of nature for an entire country is truly mindboggling.
The math simply doesn't work - and that's before we factor in the cost of such batteries and the geopolitics of the materials they use.