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Like a number of commentators, Ive been struck by how people on the right know, just know, that Obamacare has been a dismal failure. More than 15 million Americans have gained coverage, costs are well below predictions, and employment growth has accelerated since the job-killing law went into effect but they know none of that, because all they hear from their preferred information sources is tales of disaster.
Some things Ive been reading lately remind me that theres another major Obama initiative that is the subject of similar delusions: the promotion of green energy. Everyone on the right knows that the stimulus-linked efforts to promote solar and wind were a bust Solyndra! Solyndra! Benghazi! and in general they still seem to regard renewables as hippie-dippy stuff that will never go anywhere.
So it comes as something of a shock when you look at the actual data, and discover that solar and wind energy consumption has tripled under Obama.
True, it started from a low base, but green energy is no longer a marginal factor and with solar panels experiencing Moores Law-type cost declines, were looking at a real transformation looking forward.
You can argue about how much this transformation owes to federal policy. But only a combination of rigid preconceptions and sheer ignorance can explain the way right-wingers still go around sniggering about Obamas green-energy promotion. Far from being a bust, that policy was at least a contributing factor to an energy revolution.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/14/invisible-green-triumphs/?smid=re-share&_r=0
lindysalsagal
(20,785 posts)He's fixed so many things, but you don't notice them when things are going well.
I look forward to his post-presidential autobiography where I can hold in my hand all of the accomplishments he didn't brag about.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Hekate
(90,978 posts)Cha
(297,935 posts)thanks n2doc
Andy823
(11,495 posts)Than the BS spread by so many about how he is a "do nothing" president.
Thanks for the post.
tclambert
(11,087 posts)Seems like the wronger they are, the louder they get.
Cosmocat
(14,583 posts)You get to be wrong, almost literaly about everything.
You get to never have to admit about being wrong about nearly everything.
You get to arrogantly dismiss the folks who are most often right ,as being wrong on everything.
If I had no concience or regard for reality, I would maybe get the appeal of that.