DNC Votes Down Measure For Unofficial Climate Change-Focused Presidential “Debates”

You know that thing Democrats do whenever something doesn’t go their way, where they just change the rules arbitrarily like they’re a 10 year old playing Monopoly with their kid brother?

Yeah, they tried it again.

The Democratic National Committee voted down a resolution at its summer meeting in San Francisco Saturday that would have freed the party’s presidential candidates to participate in unofficial “multi-candidate” forums focused solely on climate change.

The national party committee voted 222-137 against a resolution that would have encouraged candidates to essentially disregard a rule set by DNC Chairman Tom Perez that barred them from appearing on the same stage at the same time during so-called “non-party events.”

Luckily they saw some sense and didn’t pass this resolution, but of course the fringiest of the fringe are irate.

“The Democratic Party needs the energy and motivation of young people to win in 2020,” said Evan Weber, Sunrise Movement political director. “The energy around this issue has been incredibly clear, yet Tom Perez keeps shooting the party in the foot by rejecting that energy and turning it away.”

I find it very telling that they’re reliant on the least informed and least experienced of voters. Trying to change the rules so that the youth can get involved is the same basic principle behind selling alcohol to teens.

Also, COOL IT WITH THE FREAKING CLIMATE. (Pun intended.) It is not the singular issue of this election!! And even if it was, you can’t talk about addressing climate change without talking about the economic positions your solution implicates, the effects on international relations it would have, what sort of impact your proposal will have on disadvantaged groups, not to mention HOW THE HELL YOU PLAN TO PAY FOR IT.

So I guess I’d like to see a debate where I can gauge where candidates stand on those other things so I can understand how those positions will influence their climate change policy, and vice versa.

Oh, that’s what we’re already doing? Great.