{"id":126844,"date":"2025-03-11T18:35:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T18:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/young-people-want-better-than-biden-but-what-choice-do-we-really-have\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T18:35:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T18:35:03","slug":"young-people-want-better-than-biden-but-what-choice-do-we-really-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=126844","title":{"rendered":"Young People Want Better Than Biden. But What Choice Do We Really Have?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"article-title-block_33a6c3d27af261d7131e7df2ebae47ce\" class=\"article-title \">\n<div class=\"article-title__container\">\n<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-the-nation-dek article-title__dek\">\n<p>The Sunrise Movement has been hesitant to endorse Biden, and we are far from alone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<aside aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad-block ad siderail-ad float-r-w-3 break-r-4\">\n<p>                                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/advertising-policy\" class=\"ad-policy\" target=\"_blank\">Ad Policy<\/a><br \/>\n                                    <\/aside>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"907\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GettyImages-2158183184-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-509005\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GettyImages-2158183184-2.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GettyImages-2158183184-2-275x173.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GettyImages-2158183184-2-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GettyImages-2158183184-2-810x510.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GettyImages-2158183184-2-340x215.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GettyImages-2158183184-2-168x106.jpg 168w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GettyImages-2158183184-2-382x240.jpg 382w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GettyImages-2158183184-2-793x500.jpg 793w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">NEW YORK, NEW YORK \u2013 JUNE 18: People participate in a \u2018Climate Justice Means Free Palestine!\u2019 rally outside of the Citibank headquarters on June 18, 2024 in New York City. Multiple arrests were made after climate and pro-Palestine activisst held a youth-led climate justice protest outside of the Citibank headquarters in solidarity with the people of Palestine, amid Israel\u2019s war against Hamas, due to the bank being largest foreign financial institution in Israel.   (Photo by Michael M. Santiago\/Getty Images)<span class=\"credits\">(Photo by Michael M. Santiago \/ Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside id=\"issue-aside-block-block_c25c4abc7ebdda5890f4809c68f344b1\" class=\"issue-aside-block  float-l-w-2\">\n    This article appears in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/issue\/july-2024-issue\/\">July 2024 issue<\/a>, with the headline \u201cVote for the Planet.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">The only vote I\u2019ve regretted was my first. In 2012, I was so furious about the Democratic Party\u2019s failure to make meaningful progress on climate change that I used my first-ever ballot to cast a protest vote against President Barack Obama. Rather than forcing my way into the Democratic Party\u2019s big tent, I sat outside it.<\/p>\n<p>That protest vote is on my mind as two startlingly unpopular presidents vie for another four years. Can I stomach a vote for Joe Biden, a man who promised jobs that would be good for the planet and workers\u2019 wallets and delivered the funds for a supercharged domestic clean-energy industry, only to blow all of his goodwill by bear-hugging a far-right leader who is wanted by the International Criminal Court? And what do my personal compunctions matter as the country faces the possibility of another term for Donald Trump, a convicted felon who has vowed revenge on our democracy\u2019s bedrock institutions?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not alone in asking these questions. The Sunrise Movement, the environmental youth organization I\u2019ve had a hand in building over the past seven years, recently announced that it wasn\u2019t yet ready to campaign for Joe Biden. The coverage of this has been billed as a scoop for revealing Biden\u2019s weakening support. It\u2019s not. Sixty-nine percent of young people disapprove of the president\u2019s job performance\u2014and they are far from alone.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the news rankled the pundit class. <em>New York<\/em> magazine columnist Jonathan Chait questioned the point of a climate group that doesn\u2019t line up behind the only party that believes its issue is real.<\/p>\n<p>This logic is sound, even if it elides the fact that climate change was not a priority for the Democratic Party until the grass roots demanded it. To Chait, withholding an endorsement is immature. If young people can\u2019t reward politicians who make real progress on the issues we care about, why should those politicians work with us at all? The answer is that while politics is transactional, physics drives a harder bargain.<\/p>\n<p>If we think of Biden\u2019s record on climate change as an Econ 101 test, we can score him on two measures: the supply of fossil fuels that drive up global temperatures, and the demand for clean-energy technologies that don\u2019t. Thanks to Biden\u2019s Inflation Reduction Act, solar installations are skyrocketing, and the costs of electric vehicles are plummeting as demand grows. It\u2019s in regard to fossil fuel supply that the president\u2019s record is mixed. Last year, Biden broke a key campaign promise when he approved the Willow oil project in Alaska. And while it\u2019s commendable that the administration paused liquefied natural gas exports earlier this year, the United States remains on track to \u201cproduce more crude oil than any country, ever,\u201d according to the US Energy Information Administration. The more of that crude that is burned, the hotter our country will get, and the more people will suffer as a result of fires, floods, and heat waves, no matter the demand for clean energy.<\/p>\n<div id=\"current-issue-block_987700bd5b127fee99d1daf5652dd3d5\" class=\"current-issue  float-l-w-2\">\n<h4 class=\"current-issue__title\">\n                    Current Issue<br \/>\n            <\/h4>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/issue\/april-2025-issue\/\" class=\"current-issue__cover\"><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cover2504.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of April 2025 Issue\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>For the pundits who try to wave this all away, consider the recent warning from the secretary general of the United Nations: \u201cWe need an exit ramp off the highway to climate hell.\u201d Indeed, scientists at the UN\u2019s World Meteorological Organization have announced that there is an 80 percent chance the globe\u2019s temperature will temporarily surpass the target set by the world\u2019s governments at the Paris climate accords within the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever is elected president in November will be in office, presumably, the majority of those five years. He will have enormous leverage in either stanching the rising seas or abetting the dominance of fossil fuels for the rest of the decade. This is the strongest point made by Sunrise\u2019s critics: Regardless of how much or how little President Biden has done on climate, who exactly is the alternative to him?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a fair question. It\u2019s also fair to consider that Biden\u2019s support for Israel\u2019s war on Gaza is a major sticking point for young people, forcing not just us but all people of conscience to question our votes in November.<\/p>\n<p>But rather than thoughtfully engage us on these issues, commentators like Chait scold climate activists for not staying in our lane. Evidently, it doesn\u2019t occur to these critics that young people are fighting for a livable future not only for ourselves, but also for those in Israel and Palestine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cta-block_21243cb872f858cc6e886b68a397f673\" class=\"cta float-l-w-3\">\n<p>I, too, am suspicious of the tendency to link every issue to every other in the name of damning the whole system. At best, it gestures toward solidarity: that I will have your back when you have mine. At worst, it\u2019s inimical to strategy, which demands focus.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, politics is a negotiation. Like any negotiation, it pits people with different kinds of power against each other. This is what I did not understand in 2012. My power does not come from standing outside the tent, but from organizing to bring more progressives into it.<\/p>\n<p>For those still asking what Sunrise is for: It\u2019s to show young people that politicians respond to power\u2014and so we must find what makes us powerful. Chait and his ilk seem intent on finger-wagging us out of politics. That would serve the pundit class. It will not serve the country.<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-end-\" class=\"article-end \">\n<div aria-hidden=\"false\" id=\"article-editor-note\" class=\"article-editor-note-1 tn-editor-none-module\" data-nosnippet=\"\">\n<div class=\"article-editor-note-blocks\" id=\"editor_note\">\n<p><span style=\"\\&quot;font-weight:\"><br \/>Donald Trump\u2019s cruel and chaotic second term is just getting started. In his first month back in office, Trump and his lackey Elon Musk (or is it the other way around?) have proven that nothing is safe from sacrifice at the altar of unchecked power and riches.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\\&quot;font-weight:\">Only robust independent journalism can cut through the noise and offer clear-eyed reporting and analysis based on principle and conscience.<\/span> <span style=\"\\&quot;font-weight:\">That\u2019s what <\/span><i><span style=\"\\&quot;font-weight:\">The Nation<\/span><\/i><span style=\"\\&quot;font-weight:\"> has done for 160 years and that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\\&quot;font-weight:\">Our independent journalism doesn\u2019t<\/span> <span style=\"\\&quot;font-weight:\">allow injustice to go unnoticed or unchallenged\u2014nor will we abandon hope for a better world. Our<\/span> <span style=\"\\&quot;font-weight:\">writers, editors, and fact-checkers are working relentlessly to keep you informed and empowered when so much of the media fails to do so out of credulity, fear, or fealty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\\&quot;font-weight:\"><i>The Nation<\/i> has seen unprecedented times before. We draw strength and guidance from our history of principled progressive journalism in times of crisis, and we are committed to continuing this legacy today. <\/span><span style=\"\\&quot;font-weight:\"\/><\/p>\n<p><b>We\u2019re aiming to raise $25,000 during our Spring Fundraising Campaign to ensure that we have the resources to expose the oligarchs and profiteers attempting to loot our republic. Stand for bold independent journalism and donate to support <\/b><b><i>The Nation <\/i><\/b><b>today.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\\&quot;font-weight:\">Onward,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\\&quot;font-weight:\">Katrina vanden Heuvel<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\\&quot;font-weight:\">Editorial Director and Publisher, <em>The<\/em><i> Nation<\/i><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-end__authors\">\n<div class=\"article-end__author\">\n<h5 class=\"article-end__author-name\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/authors\/matthew-miles-goodrich\/\">Matthew Miles Goodrich<\/a><br \/>\n                    <\/h5>\n<div class=\"article-end__author-bio\">\n<p>Matthew Miles Goodrich is the chief operating officer of the Sunrise Movement.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <!-- Tag ID: thenation_incontent_2 --><\/p>\n<section class=\"collections collections--col-0\">\n<div 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