With the national Democratic party convention underway this week in Philadelphia, the party’s national platform has been adopted, one focusing on the rights and needs of workers and an emphasis on green energy and environmentally friendly development.
Two who helped draw up the platform were Charles Hoskins of Vinita and Alberta Swanegan-Owens of Oklahoma City. Hoskins is a Hillary Clinton supporter while Swanegan-Owens is a supporter of Bernie Sanders.
A review shows it does not emphasize the kind of energy expansion as laid out in the platform of the National Republican party convention. Instead, the Democratic party platform focuses more on workers and their rights as well as civil rights, women’s rights, and rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenders, promoting arts and culture, making the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes and promoting trade that is fair to American workers.
Democrats support ambitious public and private investments in science, technology and research, declared the platform. “We will nurture the next generation of scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs, especially women and people of color, to make sure America continues to out-compete and out-innovate the rest of the world with our bold innovation agenda,” continued the platform.
It also stated that “We must help American workers and businesses compete for jobs and investments in global clean energy, high-tech products, internet technology products and advanced manufacturing and vehicles.”
The platform said the party “must make American manufacturing more internationally competitive by making it the greenest and most efficient in the world, including by investing in industrial energy efficiency.”
When it comes to rural development, “Democrats will increase funding to support the next generation of farmers and ranchers, with particular attention given to promoting environmentally sustainable agricultural practices.”
“And we will promote clean energy leadership and collaborative stewardship of our natural resources, while expanding opportunities in rural communities across America.”
It repeated the stewardship claim a paragraph later.
“We will promote collaborative stewardship of our natural resources, while developing clean fuels that will grow our economy, lower our energy bills, combat climate change and make America the clean energy superpower of the 21st century.”
The platform contained no references to the U.S. oil and coal renaissance as mentioned by the GOP platform.
