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Are you just mindlessly trolling here or do you have a point? Climate change is a thing that concerns people. Waste is a thing that concerns people. Is any of this surprising?

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Do those two things concern people as much as you think? I don't see it as a major issue people vote on.

Equating “what people are concerned about” with “what people vote on” is unwise. It’s not as if we all get a direct vote on “should we tackle climate change?”

But hey: “For Democrats, climate change is now one of the two most important issues in politics, according to a new poll.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/02/poll-us-...

And rightly so, because people would vote to tackle climate change and to have travel and economical growth at the same time.

You can have a more expressive voting system than that. People can rank their priorities, etc.

Joke's on them they're getting Biden anyway.

Not a lot of people vote primarily on issues regarding criminal justice or technology (e.g. backdoor encryption) and yet I do think we should care about those things.

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