Sentences with phrase «normal political process»

Protecting the climate is a task that seems to be beyond normal political processes.

So they are drawn to solutions that are imposed outside of normal political processes, such as state or mayoral takeovers, rule by «expert» panels, appeals to the authority of «science,» or cries of what «justice» demands.

Moreover, these administrators are to be largely independent of the normal political process and effectively sealed off from public opinion.

The potential divisiveness of such conflict is a threat to the normal political process.

1And let me be clear, outside events affecting the normal political process are by themselves a very BAD thing, no matter the outcome.

What I think Steve was trying to say (and I know he said something like this on numerous occasions in other forums as well as in an email to me on Wednesday, July 14, 2010) is that deciding what to do about climate is a choice that is value - laden (as all choices are) and that the normal political processes for each society must come into play in deciding what to do.