My email inbox featured a message from the Sierra Club, as follows:

“Those who want to stay alive should vote for Democrats. Those who are willing to die from a severe heat wave (like the one in Europe at this very moment), by drowning in a flood, from severe trauma in a hurricane or tornado, or from smoke inhalation in a wildfire, can vote Republican.”

This episode is my response. I assert that Democratic candidates do not give voters any reason to get out and vote.

Fixing that problem would be easy enough. There are numerous issues that are favored by supermajorities of Americans. One party or the other has to decide to run on POPULAR issues.