[✔️] September 16, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

👀 Richard Pauli richard at theclimate.vote
Thu Sep 16 04:10:14 EDT 2021


/*September 16, 2021*/

/[Monumental carbon storage ]/
*Wildfires shutter Sequoia National Park and threaten famous ancient trees*
Growing wildfires in the Sierra Nevada forced the closure of Sequoia 
National Park in California on Wednesday as blazes sparked by lightning 
strikes threaten the park’s groves of giant sequoias, home to some of 
the tallest and oldest trees in the world.

Sequoia National Park is home to Giant Forest, a grove of ancient giant 
sequoias, including the 275-foot General Sherman, the world’s largest 
tree by volume, according to the National Park Service. Though wildfires 
are part of the natural regeneration process for sequoias, experts say 
intensifying blazes fueled by climate change are instead destroying them.
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Beyond their benefits, Nelson said the trees themselves are natural 
wonders that are one of the few living artifacts from ancient history.

“What’s special about them is that a 3,000 year-old tree was there while 
Indigenous people were here tending them,” she said. “The same time the 
Roman Empire was flourishing and people were building viaducts.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/15/sequoia-trees-wildfire/



/[Congress is trying]/
*Congress Is Debating Its Biggest Climate Change Bill Ever. Here's 
What's At Stake*
September 15, 2021
Jeff Brady
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This legislation would bring extraordinary changes to the country's 
energy sector. It would lead to huge reductions in the climate-warming 
greenhouse gases the U.S. emits and change the kind of car many 
Americans drive.

A key element is a $150 billion Clean Electricity Performance Program, 
or CEPP, that would pay utilities to switch from greenhouse gas-emitting 
electricity sources, such as coal and natural gas, to non-emitting 
sources such as wind, solar, hydropower and nuclear.
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/15/1036954961/congress-is-debating-its-biggest-climate-change-bill-ever-heres-whats-at-stake

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/[Congress tries to save the day - just how close comes from Dave 
Roberts. ]/
*A close look at the clean energy legislation offered by House Democrats*
The CEPP and tax credits and labor standards, oh my.
David Roberts - Sept 15, 2021
After months of anticipation, Democrats have begun to reveal pieces of 
their upcoming Build Back Better Act (aka the budget reconciliation 
bill), including the key clean energy provisions.

On Monday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee began markup of its 
full set of recommendations for the bill. Meanwhile, the House Ways and 
Means Committee released its draft tax package for the bill, including 
the clean energy tax credits.

As negotiations around the reconciliation bill move forward, I’ll have 
more to say about the politics, economics, and larger implications of 
all this Democratic energy policy. For now, I just want to get the 
specifics on the record.

For one thing, there’s a lot of policy here, and it will take some time 
to think it through. For another, it will be important to track what 
gets added and (more likely) cut when the bill goes to the Senate, so 
this post can serve as our baseline for comparison...
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Now let’s see how much survives the Senate
Like I said, there will be more to talk about as the bill is negotiated. 
For now, I’ll leave you with three observations.

First, is this enough? Ha ha, no. No climate policy is ever enough. This 
is far short of the $10 trillion that would be needed for a true Green 
New Deal. It’s far short of the $6 trillion bill Sen. Bernie Sanders 
first proposed, back in June. It is, from a climate perspective, a 
ludicrously low level of investment and mobilization.

Nonetheless, this is what the lamentably small group of climate-focused 
legislators were able to squeeze from a chaotic process. This is a 
reflection of the relative weight climate carries in the House.

Second, this is the high-water mark, so enjoy it while it lasts. Sens. 
Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) are going to try to hack down the 
overall level of spending, and Manchin has already signaled his 
intention to go after some of the energy provisions, including the CEPP. 
I have no idea what will happen in the Senate — my brain is tired from 
trying to predict — but given that Manchin is involved, it’s likely to 
be unpleasant.

Third, I know this isn’t helpful right now, but damn is it stupid for a 
wealthy democracy to make policy the way we do. Because every policy of 
any size has to be crammed through the budget reconciliation process, it 
all ends up in the tax code, a complicated skein of credits and 
loopholes that encourages rent-seeking and keep armies of lawyers employed.

This is not how any energy wonk, including the energy wonks on 
Democratic congressional staffs, would write policy if offered a blank 
sheet of paper. It is kludge upon kludge, a Rube Goldberg mechanism 
reverse-engineered to conform to anachronistic budget rules administered 
by a parliamentarian-cum-shaman.

But it is what’s possible now. American democracy is staggering, barely 
upright, and people of good will are scrambling to do the best they can 
under the circumstances. There’s no time left for infighting. Let’s just 
get this thing over the finish line.
https://www.volts.wtf/p/a-close-look-at-the-clean-energy?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMzY4NzE5OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDEyMTQwOTQsIl8iOiI4QWdWYyIsImlhdCI6MTYzMTc1MzQ1MywiZXhwIjoxNjMxNzU3MDUzLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMTkzMDI0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.h4Q2l41GDojOGm8PdHV8vTTubOpZ7r6JIfRGZxIwz34&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#play



/[TV to save the day!]/
*Late-Night Shows Are Teaming Up to Tackle Climate Change*
Seven of TV’s most popular late-night programs and hosts, including 
Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon and Samantha Bee, plan to address the 
subject on the night of Sept. 22.
On Sept. 22, seven of the network and cable late-night shows will take 
part in Climate Night, during which each of these programs will have a 
focus on climate change and produce their own original content on the topic.

The shows that plan to participate in Climate Night are “The Tonight 
Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and “Late Night With Seth Meyers” on NBC; 
“The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” and “The Late Late Show With James 
Corden” on CBS; “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” on TBS; “Jimmy Kimmel 
Live” on ABC; and “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” on Comedy Central.

Samantha Bee said in an interview that she could not recall another 
occasion during her tenure as a late-night host when so many of programs 
coordinated their efforts like this...
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“And really, what’s a more compelling cause to combine forces on than 
the climate, which we require in order to do our shows?” she said. “We 
need to not be submerged underwater in order to have successful 
late-night shows. The need is great.”...
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Bodow said his request to each program was: “Please do your show the way 
that you do your show. The shows have different styles and vibes, and 
that’s how they’ll approach this. There’s plenty to talk about.”

Bee said that, despite the inherently comedic tone of these late-night 
shows, they could still offer a constructive platform to address such an 
ominous topic.

“It’s a really overwhelming conversation to have because so much has to 
happen, so urgently,” she said. “I do think that we, individually, each 
do a great job of breaking down stories in ways that are palatable. 
Comedy is a great delivery system for actual information.”

She added: “And I expect, probably by the end of the show, we will have 
solved the climate crisis. So that’s exciting.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/arts/television/late-night-climate-change.html




/[Poignant audio from children about climate chaos and the future]/
*Opinion*
***‘He Just Cried for a While.’ This Is My Reality of Parenting During a 
Climate Disaster.*
One New Orleans mother on Hurricane Ida and what comes next.
Produced by Cristal Duhaime, Christina Djossa and Derek Arthur
Edited by Kaari Pitkin and Paula Szuchman
Engineered by Isaac Jones
Original music by Isaac Jones and Carole Sabouraud

Two days before Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana in late August, 
Sarah DeBacher was trying to get her kids to stop dawdling and start 
packing. She needed them to understand the urgency of why they had to 
evacuate their home in Holy Cross, a neighborhood in the Lower Ninth 
Ward of New Orleans.

When her younger son, Charlie, 7, asked what might happen if they didn’t 
leave, DeBacher told them that during Hurricane Katrina a man had 
drowned in the house they now live in. She hadn’t planned to tell her 
kids this grim fact — it just slipped out.

Listen to DeBacher, an educator and mother, wrestle with the hard talks 
she’s been having with her kids about climate change these last few 
weeks while displaced from their home. She wonders what should come 
next, for her family and all of us.

Clip from audio:

        Sarah Debacher
        There’s an intensity to spending time with kids that is just
        exacerbated however many umpteen times when you’re in a
        stressful situation. I knew from past evacuations, you really
        can’t wait until within eight hours or even 12 hours of
        landfall. You’ve got to get out sooner. And they just weren’t
        cooperating. Who knows what they were doing — playing with the
        dog, teasing the chickens, harassing me about having somebody
        come over to play on the trampoline. They didn’t want to go.
        There was just complaint after complaint. I just kind of lost my
        cool and said, this needs to happen and it needs to happen now
        because we have a limited period of time to get out. If we stay
        and it’s a Category Four, something really awful could happen.
        And I think Charlie said to me, what is the awful thing that
        could happen? And I said, well, we could drown in our house.
        Robin was like, whoa. And I immediately was just like, oh,
        Sarah. Way to go. I didn’t realize that someone died there when
        we bought the house. There were some volunteers that had come
        over to help us actually remove Hurricane Katrina graffiti, is
        what everyone called it. But it was — these were the spray
        painted marks that the National Guard or whichever of the
        external agencies, they were going house to house and then they
        would mark it. And on the side of the house it said, one D.O.A.
        [MUSIC PLAYING] In the Lower Ninth Ward, it wasn’t like a slow
        rise of water — it was pretty abrupt. There was someone who had
        stayed, a man who the water came up over him.

        When the storms have come since then, it’s definitely made not
        staying in the neighborhood an important move for me. Because
        even though billions of dollars have been invested in the
        federal levees after Katrina, you can’t really hear something
        like that and imagine it in your house and not feel a little bit
        afraid. So I’m imagining that Charlie —

        Charlie was scared.

        The desired effect was not to traumatize them. The desired
        effect was not to — I just wanted them to help. And I wanted
        them to do so with a level of urgency that I knew existed.
        [MUSIC PLAYING] I just really wanted them to grab their favorite
        lovies and a couple of changes of clothes. We left at 10:30 at
        night, and I just drove. We stopped once to get gas, and we
        arrived in Atlanta at 6:30 in the morning...
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        Everything looks good?

        Kelly
        I just didn’t want you to worry. I don’t see any evidence of
        leaks and nothing is smelly.

        Sarah Debacher
        Wow.

        Kelly
        So it all looks good in there. The backyard has a lot of branches.

        Sarah Debacher
        Did you happen to see my chickens?

        Kelly
        Yeah. And the chickens— we came in the backyard and they were
        all running around. We’re still in the back yard now. We were
        about to give them water.

        Sarah Debacher
        What do you miss about home?

        Charlie
        Like, our friends and everything that’s at home. Sort of.

        Sarah Debacher
        Yeah. What do you miss about school?

        Charlie
        I’m not sure — just school.

        Sarah Debacher
        I hear you. The way that my boys have handled the evacuation has
        been kind of fascinating, because on the one hand, they’re both
        just like, oh, this is vacation. This is great. And yet one
        morning, shortly after the storm hit, Charlie had a bit of a
        meltdown. And he sat at the bottom of the stairs in my parents’
        basement — which by the way, they find bizarre, because there
        are no basements in New Orleans. And he just was inconsolable.
        And when I asked him what was wrong, he said that he just wanted
        to go home.

        He just cried for a while, and I held him. And a bag of Legos
        arrives, and everything was fine again. So I feel like my work
        has been to kind of try to mitigate the bad. But I don’t
        necessarily think the right way of doing that is to be like, oh,
        look over here, shiny thing, all the time. [MUSIC PLAYING]
        Because while you’re distracting a child from something that is
        actually happening, you deprive them of the opportunity to go
        through the range of emotions. To have a meltdown in the middle
        of it. Charlie was just beside himself bawling, and I think the
        fact that he was able to recover was in part because I held
        space for him to fall apart.

        I think mine’s coming later.

        Charlie
        There’s a lot of different things, and I am not like a climate
        change activist myself. So I mean, I’ve studied a lot about
        climate change in school. But like, I don’t know how chemicals
        work and how we can stop carbon emissions.

        Sarah Debacher
        I think one of the challenges for schools — and this was one
        that I experienced after Katrina — is that the state learning
        expectations, academic standards, standardized testing, school
        performance scores, et cetera and so on, those are not aligned
        with the needs of kids right now. Nor are they aligned with the
        needs of teachers. Teachers do not need to be grading a kid’s
        drawing of their Hurricane Ida experience with a sentence
        underneath it that says what it was like for them. And does it
        have a subject and a predicate? And is it capitalized, and does
        it have a period? That is not what kids need. What kids need
        after a trauma is the resources and the infrastructure to
        explore their curiosity.

        Someone nearby to ask the right questions and push them to find
        deeper, more substantive, meaningful answers. And then when they
        can’t come up with that, they just need someone to be like,
        that’s cool. Charlie do you have anything you want to say about
        what—

        Charlie
        Never get rid of Legos.

        Sarah Debacher
        Never get rid of Legos? About what grownups should be doing to
        help kids prepare for or handle climate change?

        Charlie
        I don’t know. I don’t know. I’m not sure.

        Sarah Debacher
        As these kinds of disasters and the effects of climate change
        force us to contend with this more frequently, I think we need
        to get into a regular practice of talking about what’s
        happening. Which kind of sucks, because what we want to do when
        it’s not happening is just breathe and play, and not deal with
        it. I don’t want to talk about like potentially having to move.
        I don’t want to get a hurricane kit together. I don’t want to —
        waah! But I think we need to get into the habit of talking about
        climate change and its impacts intergenerationally, kids and
        parents. If we’re always in response and reaction mode, I just
        don’t think we’re going to be able to make the progress in the
        amount of time that we have available to us. [MUSIC PLAYING] Can
        I ask you— can you pause for one second while I ask you a kind
        of serious question?

        Charlie
        Yeah. OK.

        Do you know that a lot of scientists can’t believe that we’re
        going to be dealing with...

Christina Djossa
Sarah and her kids are back in New Orleans now. Robin and Charlie head 
to school on Monday. As of September 13th, power has been restored to 
nearly 95 percent of Louisiana’s residents. Most public schools in New 
Orleans are slated to reopen by September 22nd — more than three weeks 
after Ida struck.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/opinion/parenting-climate-change-hurricane-ida.html




/[Changing West]/
*Growing Uncertainty in the Central Valley*
California produces much of America’s food—and now a drought and a 
pandemic have put the system on edge.
By Anna Wiener
September 15, 2021
https://www.newyorker.com/news/california-chronicles/growing-uncertainty-in-the-central-valley
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/[Calling out the troops..]/
*National Guard helping out at Mercy hospitals in Bakersfield*
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — The latest COVID surge is leading to Kern 
County hospitals needing staffing help to treat an increase in patients.

Bruce Peters from Mercy Hospital said that Mercy hospitals have been 
receiving help from the National Guard from their strike team of 27 
people. The help is comprised of paramedics and emergency medical 
technicians to help with the COVID surge...
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Kern Public Health reported there are 675 new cases of COVID and five 
new deaths on Wednesday. 1,510 deaths and 132,282 cases of COVID have 
been reported in Kern County since the pandemic began.
https://www.turnto23.com/news/coronavirus/national-guard-helping-out-at-mercy-hospitals-in-bakersfield



/[Rant from Rolling Stone magazine]/
*Our Summer From Hell*
Cue the round of media wondering if this is the moment people “wake up” 
to the climate crisis. If this is what waking up looks like, we’re screwed
By JEFF GOODELL /.../
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/Now, as the world floods and burns, the price of our willful ignorance 
and denial is becoming clearer. Are a few devastated towns along the 
Gulf Coast and waterfalls in the New York City subway system going to be 
what wakes us up from that? I hope so. But I fear that just as there is 
no “us,” there is also no “waking up.” If the pandemic has proved 
anything, it’s that the reservoirs of stupidity and self-destructiveness 
in the American mind are deeper than even the most cynical among us 
could have imagined. So maybe the best thing we can do right now is not 
pretend we will “wake up” to the monstrous reality of our time like some 
character in a fairy tale. Maintaining a habitable planet is going to be 
a long hard fight, and if this summer from hell has shown us anything, 
it’s that this fight has only just begun.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/hurricane-ida-destruction-climate-change-1220436/


/[government causes anxiety]/
*Study: More than half of young people think "humanity is doomed"*
It’s the first study to find that climate anxiety is connected to 
government inaction
By KATE YODER - -  SEPT 15, 2021
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The largest study of its kind shows that the environmental crisis is 
causing widespread psychological distress for young people across the 
globe. In a paper released Tuesday, researchers from the United States, 
United Kingdom, and Finland found that 45 percent of teens and young 
adults say climate anxiety is affecting their daily lives and ability to 
function. It's the first study to suggest that young people's emotional 
distress is strongly linked to their governments' failure to respond.

"This study paints a horrific picture of widespread climate anxiety in 
our children and young people," said Caroline Hickman, a co-author and a 
researcher at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom, in a statement.

Three-quarters of those surveyed said that the "future is frightening," 
with more than half believing that "humanity is doomed." Nearly 4 in 10 
said that they are hesitant to have children. ...
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Some 58 percent of those surveyed said that their governments are 
betraying them and future generations. That number was particularly 
high, 77 percent, in Brazil, where deforestation and fire in the Amazon 
rainforest have risen under President Jair Bolsonaro.

The results lend credence to lawsuits in which young people have taken 
their governments to court over climate change, arguing that political 
leaders have failed to protect their futures and their right to a 
healthy environment. Because government inaction is so psychologically 
damaging, the report argues, it could be considered a violation of human 
rights. Young activists in Germany saw some success with this logic 
earlier this year. In April, the country's highest court said that parts 
of Germany's emissions reductions laws were unconstitutional since the 
goals were too vague and offloaded the burden onto younger generations...
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The study uses "climate anxiety" as a catch-all to describe the many 
emotions that people feel when confronted with the facts about climate 
change: worry, fear, anger, grief, despair, guilt, even hope. These 
feelings, the authors write, are a rational response. But they are often 
disregarded by others: Among the 81 percent of respondents who said they 
talked to people about their concerns, nearly half said they were 
ignored or dismissed.

And while climate anxiety is often seen as a personal problem with an 
individual solution ("take action!"), the study suggests that action 
really needs to come from those in power.
"I grew up being afraid of drowning in my own bedroom," said Mitzi Tan, 
a 23-year-old from the Philippines, in a statement accompanying the 
study. "Society tells me that this anxiety is an irrational fear that 
needs to be overcome — one that meditation and healthy coping mechanisms 
will 'fix.' At its root, our climate anxiety comes from this deep-set 
feeling of betrayal because of government inaction. To truly address our 
growing climate anxiety, we need justice."
https://www.salon.com/2021/09/15/study-more-than-half-of-young-people-think-humanity-is-doomed_partner/ 


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[Preprint with The Lancet]

*Young People's Voices on Climate Anxiety, Government Betrayal and Moral 
Injury: A Global Phenomenon*
23 Pages Posted: 7 Sep 2021
Caroline Hickman
University of Bath

Elizabeth Marks
University of Bath

Panu Pihkala
University of Helsinki

Susan Clayton
College of Wooster

Eric R. Lewandowski
New York University (NYU) - Langone Health Center

Elouise E. Mayall
University of East Anglia (UEA)

Britt Wray
Stanford University

Catriona Mellor
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

Lise van Susteren
Independent

Abstract
Background: Climate change has significant implications for the health 
and futures of children and young people, yet they have little power to 
limit its harm, making them vulnerable to increased climate anxiety. 
Qualitative studies show climate anxiety is associated with perceptions 
of inadequate action by adults and governments, feelings of betrayal, 
abandonment and moral injury. This study offers the first large-scale 
investigation of climate anxiety in children and young people globally 
and its relationship to government response.

Methods: We surveyed 10,000 young people (aged 16-25 years) in ten 
countries. Data were collected on their thoughts and feelings about 
climate change, and government response.

Findings: Respondents were worried about climate change (59% very or 
extremely worried, 84% at least moderately worried). Over 50% felt sad, 
anxious, angry, powerless, helpless, and guilty. Over 45% said their 
feelings about climate change negatively affected their daily life and 
functioning, and many reported a high number of negative thoughts about 
climate change. Respondents rated the governmental response to climate 
change negatively and reported greater feelings of betrayal than of 
reassurance. Correlations indicated that climate anxiety and distress 
were significantly related to perceived inadequate government response 
and associated feelings of betrayal.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=4822679


/[great minds in discussion video this Monday]/

The Climate Psychology Alliance of North America presents

*A CONVERSATION ABOUT CLIMATE: "HOW WE GOT HERE, AND WHERE TO NOW?"*
With Bill McKibben and Sally Weintrobe
20th September 2021 at 2:00pm EST/ 11am PST

*This event is free of charge*
Join us for a not-to-be-missed conversation between American 
environmentalist Bill McKibben and
British psychoanalyst Sally Weintrobe about her brilliant new book, 
Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and 
the Culture of Uncare, in which she explores the psychological and 
cultural forces behind the rise of the climate bubble, inside of which 
people ignore the climate crisis. She reveals the paradigm shift 
necessary to move from the current dysfunctional culture of uncare 
toward a culture of care necessary for a sustainable world.

**This will be a 30-minute conversation followed by a 30-minute Q&A with 
a select group of journalists **

Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, has written extensively on the 
climate crisis, from his prophetic “The End of Nature” (1989) to 
“Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?” (2019).

Sally Weintrobe, psychoanalyst and longstanding member of Climate 
Psychology Alliance UK, writes about the mental health dimensions of the 
climate crisis. She edited and contributed to the book Engaging with 
Climate Change (2013).

Registration at: 
https:/www.eventbrite.com/e/a-conversation-about-climate-how-did-we-get-here-and-where-to-now-tickets-167954700029
This event will be recorded and accessible post-event at 
www.climatepsychology.us
-- 
We respectfully remind you that the comments made by individuals are 
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Visit our website www.climatepsychologyalliance.org
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=4822679



/[The news archive -  "Beyond crazy is a better description...a village 
cannot reorganize village life to suit the village idiot.  It‘s as 
simple as that//"  - a radical video interview]/

*On this day in the history of global warming September  16,*

September 16, 2009: On MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show," former 
fundamentalist Christian Frank Schaeffer explains right-wing science denial:

“…[T]he mainstream--not just media, but culture—doesn’t sufficiently 
take stock of the fact that within our culture we have a subculture 
which is literally a fifth column of insanity that is bred from birth, 
through home school, Christian school, evangelical college, whatever, to 
reject facts as a matter of faith… [W]hat we‘re really talking about is 
a group of people that are resentful because they‘ve been left behind by 
modernity, by science, by education, by art, by literature.  The rest of 
us are getting on with our lives.  These people are standing on the 
hilltop waiting for the end.”

Further, Schaeffer noted:

“You don‘t work to move them off this position.  You move past them.  
Look, a village cannot reorganize village life to suit the village 
idiot.  It‘s as simple as that.  And we have to understand, we have a 
village idiot in this country, it‘s called ‘Fundamentalist Christianity.’

"And until we move past these people—and let me add, as a former 
lifelong Republican, until the Republican leadership has the guts to 
stand up and say it would be better not to have a Republican Party than 
have a party that caters to the village idiot—there’s going to be no end 
in sight…

“There is no end to this stuff.  Why?  Because this subculture has as 
its fundamentalist faith that they distrust facts per se.  They believe 
in a young Earth, 6,000 years old, with dinosaurs cavorting with human 
beings.  They think that whether it‘s economic news or news from the 
Middle East, it all has to do with the end of time and Christ’s return.  
This is la-la land.

“And the Republican Party is totally enthralled to this subculture to 
the extent that there is no Republican Party.  There is a fundamentalist 
subculture which has become a cult.  It‘s fed red meat by buffoons like 
Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and other people who are just not terribly 
bright themselves and they are talking to even stupider people.  That‘s 
where we’re at.  That‘s where all of this is coming from.

“And it‘s becoming circular.  It‘s becoming a joke. Unfortunately, a 
dangerous joke because once in a while, one of these ‘looney tunes,’ as 
we see, brings guns to public meetings. Who knows what they do next.  
It‘s a serious thing we all have to face, but the Democrats and sane 
Americans just have to move past these people, say, ‘Go wait on the 
hilltop until the end, the rest of us are going to get on with 
rebuilding our country.’”

He concluded:

“Look, in the year 2000 I worked for John McCain, to try to get him 
elected in the primaries instead of George Bush.  But John McCain sold 
out by nominating Sarah Palin who comes directly from the heart of this 
movement and carries with her all that baggage. So, he sold out.  I 
don‘t see anybody on the Republican side of things these days who has 
the moral standing to provide real leadership, or who will risk their 
position to do so.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IaAsBjoaj8

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