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Just because a leftist organization or two tell us that a nominee is cool - doesn't mean that we just need to line up a clap hard like bunch of conformists bots. Thread. 1/ https://twitter.com/JustSchmeltzer/status/1339046990928248837
Granholm on paper is a better nominee than some of other Biden's recent selections because of her commitment to renewable energy, experience w auto industry, and support for #noKXL & #NoDAPL campaigns, but 2/
Graholm has always been entrenched in the Clinton's centrist axis of the party lining up vs progressive pick in the primary https://www.mlive.com/capitolchronicles/2008/04/granholm_adopts_clinton_math_s.html 3/
She is a classic neoliberal who also always aligned herself with hippie-punching centrists 4/ https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/29/us/centrist-democrats-warn-party-not-to-present-itself-as-far-left.html
More importantly, she also comes from the same state that has been in the intersection of cruelty of environmental racial injustice (See #Flint water crisis) 5/
Flint water crisis didn't happen in a vacuum - that happened b/c of years of of systemic racism tied to governing policies of both Democratic and Republican governors. 6/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/02/08/heres-the-political-history-that-led-to-flints-shocking-water-crisis/
Appreciate the good thoughts from climate change groups predominated with white progressives on Granholm. And also encouraged by appointment of Ali Zaidi. But, always good to keep perspective. 7/
And, it is important to note the role money, fundraising and corporate connections that are playing into nominations. Otherwise, just clapping hard b/c a lefty org told us to do would be less than bad takes. Let's leave that kind of conformist behavior for the right-wing. 8/
