The author hits this one out of the ballpark.
Posted on 05/15/2007 5:32:41 AM PDT by radar101
Global warming can be interpreted in a number of ways. Matter-of-factly, it is the environmentalist, save-the-earth, sine qua non of the day. From a political perspective, it is a hot potato, one that astute politicians and corporate chiefs must handle carefully to avoid being tainted as anti-green, and thus viewed in the same light as ax-murderers. Practically and philosophically, however, global warming is really about vast new restrictions on freedom.
Global warming is the liberal-socialist God-send, the equivalent of the coming of the Marxist messiah. It is a manufactured problem, the truth of which cannot be tested or doubted, serving the interests of academics, technocrats and bureaucrats, whose only resolution is a huge expansion of government regulatory power. More important, the jurisdiction of that new power will be the very substance of life, carbon. Once carbon caps are in place, there is no theoretical limit to the amount and type of human activities the government will be empowered to regulate. In essence, global warming has become a backdoor method of instituting a kind of dictatorship of the human masses—Marx’s proletariat—i.e. you and me.
Who would have guessed it: Carbon caps succeed where Stalin, Mao and collectivism failed. In fact, as American liberals, pining for ways to make themselves relevant again, realized long ago, energy regulation is the key to the European welfare state: tiny cars, tiny apartments and high unemployment all endured for the greater “good”.
American society used to have some built-in resistance to liberal balderdash posing as moral good. No longer. This resistance has weakened as critical thinking skills have declined. American students rank below international average in testing in science, math and problem solving. The result is intellectual apathy and the growth of secular, anti-humanist, quasi-religious beliefs. Marx considered religion the people’s opium. He never could have guessed a religion called global warming would help his cause.
Which of course is the idea behind the gw scare/scam in the first place. Deep down in every liberal lies the soul of a would-be dictator. There are millions of little Pol Pots running around on the left lusting for unlimited power to reorganize the world. All they need is a little power, and they'll multiply the new killing fields to the nth degree.
With most Americans in 401K’s and in the market somehow, Republicans are acheiving Marx’s vision - workers owning the means to production.
Amazing, the more they blow the global warming trumpet, the higher gas prices go. Nobody ever said the Devil was dumb, just damned.
The author hits this one out of the ballpark.
-Eric
Bingo. April 22, 1970 was the first Earth Day, and that was the day it happened.
Google the name Ira Einhorn...
green on the outside and red inside
Buddy, can ya’ spare a carbon credit?........
A Marxist revolution from the top down.. it just might work.
Also the hundredth anniversary of Lenin's birth.
They had 365 days to choose from, they picked Lenin's birthday.
I'll use it next time, though.
Damm that nails it~!!!!!!
Limit growth until we stop having kids. The West must Die, it’s a virus
Holy cow... I never thought of it that way. I guess the biggest difference here is that it is done by freedom and choice- and not 'fair and equal' at the point of a gun.
These people are Watermelons. Green on the outside and Red on the inside.
Ask yourself also "How were the images of the 1970 Earth Day demonstrations in the US portrayed in the Soviet media?
Were they portrayed as "Demonstrations of concern for the environment", or were they "Children of the War-mongering Running Dog Capitalistic Lackeys celebrating the birth of Comrade Lenin"?
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