Progressive Senators On Climate: 'We Accept Nuclear Power As Part Of The Solution'

This is where a sharp person would enter the address of someone who owes him money.

Or, you know, possibly we came to the conclusion that more nuclear power was preferable to more coal plants our own, after a reasoned thought process, before we'd even fucking heard of Barack Obama.

Yes, concievably, we reasoned it out all by ourselves, several years ago, influenced, perhaps by the large number of mainsteam, and even radical, environementalists who were also capable of doing a reasoned risk analysis based on new information and who had concluded that without more nuclear we were inevitably going to burn more coal and that was bad.

Maybe all of us did a reasoned risk analysis and decided that global warming was a vastly greater risk than nuclear power before we ever even knew what this interesting guy who had given a great speech at the 2004 convention, but about whom we knew very little else, thought about the topic.

Maybe we reasoned it all out that way as the result of having a fundementally pragmatic worldview. Possibly, after years of observation of our politics and society, we had come to the conclusion that ideology should define desired outcomes rather than the policy by which outcomes are are achieved. Maybe our years of watching ever-more rigid ideologues fuck up the country in ever more dire ways convinced us that people who think ideology must dictate policy seem to invariably end up insisting that whatever outcome occurs as a result of their ideologically determined policy was necessarily good solely because it was the result of an ideologically driven policy--no matter how crappy the outcome really was.

Maybe we concluded that having all of our opinions dictated by our ideological belief system like some robotic Stalinist or mindless dogmatic medieval cleric was idiotic and destructive before we ever heard of Barack Obama.

Indeed, it is even possible that many of us formed a great many opinions in that fashion, opinions and then, when this candidate came out of nowhere saying things that were very much in line with what we'd been thinking for years, we supported him because we shared his views and continue to support him because his views and policies are in line with the ones we had had for years.

Maybe that's how it happened, and maybe that's why self-described "progressives" who smugly dismiss us as cultists piss us off to the point of distraction.