Hey there John,
Before they voted on the Big Brutal Bill, we tracked down Republicans in Congress and asked them to look us in the eye and defend their budget bill.
They couldn’t even do that. Some denied the existence of climate change. Others refused to answer questions. Mitch McConnell wouldn’t even look at us. But they passed the bill anyway.
Sometimes we get people asking us why we even bother confronting Republican politicians like this. The answer is simple: they want to hide what they’re doing so Americans don’t realize how badly they’re screwing us over.
The Republican Party knows what they’re doing. They’re selling our right to a livable future so that Big Oil will bankroll their unpopular policies.
Nobody wants their pollution. Nobody wants their more expensive energy bills. Nobody wants them to destroy our futures. But they have millions of dollars to buy out politicians and buy out elections, and so they think it doesn’t matter what everybody else wants. They’re wrong.
We should be furious. Instead, so many of us feel exhausted and hopeless. But here’s a secret. We don't have to feel that way.
Authoritarians, at their core, are weak, and we’re going to exploit that weakness to beat them.
We’re training young people with the skills they need to run powerful campaigns against Big Oil backed authoritarians, and we need your help.
In solidarity,
Team Sunrise