i'm not going to like kamala harris, and i'm not going to like her because she's about three slots too far right for me to consider voting for, which has generally been the case for me with most democrats. harris, biden, clinton, obama, gore - all conservatives. i won't vote for conservatives.

i endorsed kerry, because he was actually a liberal. i did endorse hillary clinton, but i think it was a mistake.

i have otherwise not suggested voting for the democrats at any point since 1996. i usually endorse the greens, but made exceptions in 2004 for kerry and 2016 for clinton because i felt it was actually worthwhile, and i think i was wrong in 2016. in 2024, i am again endorsing jill stein.

however.

i have to acknowledge that, maybe - maybe - kamala harris might be the planet's last chance. we have now blown past 1.5 degrees and are on the brink of tipping into negative feedback cycles. time's up. she has yet to demonstrate as much, but she might still do so. i need to hear her make a very clean break from biden's pathetic and failed climate policy in order to deduce that she is, and i'll tell you what i want to hear.

i believe it was naomi klein that first pointed out that the economics of neo-liberalism were in direct conflict with the kind of of government policy required to address climate change, and that this was fundamentally a baby boomer problem. the correlation between the boomers lingering on past their welcome and best before date (to the point that a senile boomer had to literally be forced to resign at the last minute) and the fact that government has failed to address climate change as a serious issue is not a coincidence. the washington consensus put in place by bill clinton has been an absolute death sentence for the planet because it takes the tools government needs to address the problem away from it.

i read something recently that suggested that biden has succeeded in building seven charging stations. so much for positive tax incentives as a serious government policy. it's a joke. it's been clear for a long time that, in order to get some people in government that are willing to have government actually do things, a complete generational overhaul was going to be required. biden was never going to articulate the manhatten project style economic policies that are required to aggressively transition the country.

i have yet to hear kamala harris present her climate strategy. i've yet to hear her present any policy at all. 

i want to hear her come out and clearly state that she is going to spend trillions of public dollars on transition, and that she is going to go into debt in order to do it and that it doesn't matter how it gets paid for one day, what matters is that it gets done. further, i want to hear her say that she is going to declare the issue a national security emergency (because it is) and use executive orders to fund it if congress is going to remain stupid. if i hear that very specific thing, i might endorse her.

there's not going to be another chance to do this.

this is it.

time's up.