Massive fossil fuel subsidies far exceed renewable energy subsidies, healthcare, infrastructure, or defense spending. 

Burning coal is one of the highest producers of greenhouse gases and other pollutants.

The environment is different from other issues. While other areas can be corrected for future generations, there is a strong and growing consensus among scientists that if we reach certain tipping points, there is no turning back. Future generations will judge us very harshly.

Jeff Roby recently passed away. He wrote and maintained the Green Party of Florida website and wrote many insightful articles over the years giving the big picture. Jeff  Roby was a lifelong fighter for justice. His dearly beloved wife Rose bravely carries on.

The author of this fine article was Jeff Roby who recently passed away. He wrote and maintained the Green Party of Florida website and wrote many insightful articles over the years giving the big picture. The New Progressive Alliance will later post a tribute with links to many of his writings.

This is not a troubling long term trend that will not end well. 

Jeff Roby is a Florida activist who also publishes in the The Green Party of Florida. 

It's only taken a decade, but intellectuals seem at last to have realized where the sticking point lies when it comes to getting Progressive policy enacted. It's not about "the system," as so-called "60s radicals" were so fond of complaining. (Today they're known as establishment Democrats.) 

...They're refusing needed funds again

Yes, they're holier than thou again

Stupid Dems are here again!

You can't make this stuff up. Candidates of the same party that criticizes Progressives for our (supposed) "purity tests" are refusing contributions from the most energizing member the Democratic caucus has ever--or likely ever will--see. A member whose uncompromising policy initiatives and refusal to bow to anyone who doesn't like them are the example the party has needed for... well, ever.