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Oh so he's going to start running on an anti-capitalist platform and start trying to implement the radical societal changes we'll need to see to stop us further fucking up the planet?
It doesn't matter if you're "smart" enough to see the impact of climate change if you're stupid enough to do nothing about it.
Don't worry, right after he's reelected he'll start a committee to encourage creation of a congressional sub-committee to get to the bottom of this new radical leftist divisionary idea of 'climate change' and propose a committee based on their findings to propose non-binding legislation to be voted on by 2050 only to get shot down by all republicans and whatever number of democrats are needed to ensure none of that ever happens. Mission Accomplished.