Now the Climate Scammers are Coming for Your Homes

DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

[EyesOfTX]

Seriously, how much WINNING can one nation take? – Believe it or not, the NASDAQ did not close at a new record high on Friday, falling slightly to break an 11-trading day winning streak. But the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrials did manage new record closings, making Friday yet another banner day for investors. The WINNING truly never grows old.

The Enviro-Marxists are now coming for your homes. – As we come to the end of 2019, it is only appropriate that the radical leftist climate change lobby signals its clear intent to deprive you of yet another basic human liberty: The right to own your own home.

After all, 2019 was the year in which the insane Green New Deal introduced by the insane Alexandria Ocasio Cortez proposed to deny you the right to travel by air, own your own automobile, enjoy affordable power and home heating bills and eat beef – due to all the cow farts, you know. It was the year in which, during the summer, the climate alarmists began to mount an organized, global effort to deprive those who can afford them of any vacations that involve long-haul flights. It was the year that a George Soros-funded New York State Attorney General’s office attempted to convince a court to hold ExxonMobil responsible for knowing about “climate change” a full quarter century before anyone actually knew about it, only to be laughed out of the room by the state’s own supreme court.

So, at the end of a year such as this one, you had to figure it was inevitable that the Enviro-Marxist left would end it with yet another assault on free enterprise and Americans’ civil liberties. Hey, it’s what these people do.

Writing at the communist publication The Nation, some urban planner from…wait for it….California – because of course this nitwit is from California – named Kian Goh is now proposing that it would be just a peachy idea for the government to end the basic American right to own private property in general, and single-family homes specifically. Because, climate change, or something.

You can tell just from reading the title of Mr. Goh’s piece – “California’s Fires Prove the American Dream Is Flammable” – that it’s going to be a smorgasbord of Enviro-Marxist fright tactics wedded to openly Marxist policy proposals, and Goh does not disappoint, oh, no. All you really need to know about the piece, in fact, is contained in the subhead that reads, “If we want to keep cities safe in the face of climate change, we need to seriously question the ideal of private homeownership.”

Oh. Sounds legit, right? Well, it does if you are a hopelessly ignorant nitwit who wants to the government to dictate every step you take every day of your life, which sadly describes roughly 40% of the U.S. population today, and about 90% of the employees in the nation’s corrupt news media.

I’m old enough to remember when leftist Democrats pretended to be all for individual rights to home ownership. That was waaaayyyyyyyyyyyyy back in the…wait for it … 1990s when Bill Clinton was forcing Fannie May and Freddie Mac to give mortgage loans to pretty much anyone who wanted one, even to those who manifestly could not afford them. Because, fairness, or something. That, by the way, was also the administration of Vice President Al Gore, the scam artist who has profited perhaps more than anyone on earth from pushing the climate scam during the 21st century.

But that’s all changed now and Mr. Goh is the new left’s poster child. Goh’s basic thesis is to use the issue of California wildfires as a tool to attack private housing. He is especially against building individual homes in rural areas, basically because they’re, er, flammable. Oh, yeah, and he’s also opposed to – you’ll never guess – “cheap energy”, i.e., affordable utility bills:

The growth of urban regions in the second half of the 20th century has been dominated by economic development, aspirations of home ownership, and belief in the importance of private property. Cities and towns have expanded in increasingly disperse fashion, fueled by cheap energy.

His proposed solution is, of course, less individual freedom, replaced by government command-and-control, i.e., Marxism:

To engage with these challenges, we need to do more than upgrade the powerlines or stage a public takeover of the utility companies. We need to rethink the ideologies that govern how we plan and build our homes.

Next, he plays the race card in a transparent attempt to curry favor with minorities:

In and around so many cities, new building technologies, racist lending practices, systemic criminalization of the poor and people of color, and uneven patterns of “creative destruction”—that is, cycles of investment and disinvestment across city centers and suburbs—favored one kind of residential development: single-family houses for those deemed qualified, which typically meant white, middle-class families.

So predictable. So tiresome. So utterly Alinskyite.

The next step in this paint-by-the-numbers leftist climate alarm piece is of course to blame the fires on “climate change” even though the frequency and intensity of U.S. forest fires has in fact fallen since all the climate alarmism as a stalking horse for Marxism began in the late 1980s:

The valorizing of homeownership and property rights results not only in increased exposure to climate-change-fueled fires, but also in our inadequate responses to them.

Then he goes on to signal the next step to come in this Enviro-Marxist campaign to deprive Americans of their rights: The assault on individual rights to own homes on the coast:

Discussions have surged over the last two years about the need for coastal communities to retreat further inland as they face rising sea levels—a seemingly more imminent threat. How should we broach the more uncertain risks of fire?

This dude has your future all planned out for you, you just don’t know it yet.

And here comes the money paragraph, the paragraph in which Goh very predictably exposes himself as a supporter of The Commie, Bernie Sanders, who has chosen to enlist Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and her Green New Deal as his campaign’s mascot:

There are other options, in theory: Rental housing serves many cities around the world well, although we should be wary about perpetuating the power of landlords in this country without delinking ownership from wealth creation. There has been resurgent interest in government-planned and -built public housing, including recent legislation proposed by Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Bernie Sanders that would shore up and invigorate the federal system. The Green New Deal invokes prior eras of government intervention, lending itself to revitalized thinking about the social value of public goods.

The Climate Scam always has been and always will be a stalking horse for the global implementation of Marxist-style socialism. Every suggested “solution” ever offered by any adherent to Climate Change religious dogma has, without exception, involved a Soviet-style command-and-control central government depriving individuals of their rights and prosperity.

The right to own personal property was enshrined by the founders of this country because they understood that it was a crucial tool in maintaining personal freedom. As such, it should surprise no one that the climate scammers would seek to deprive Americans of that key right, along with their liberty and pursuit of happiness.

They are telling you everything they want to do to you, folks – all you have to do is read and listen.

That is all.

[a fool in paradise]

Soviet style skyrises are coming and it’s no joke, workerbees.

[HighSierra5]

While I have strength in my trigger finger,no one is taking my land without casualties.

[Right Wing Assault]

I think we need to break this down into a new development for at least 2500 homes.

I think the owner is the type of person who would really like the idea.

[kearnyirish2]

“The right to own personal property was enshrined by the founders of this country because they understood that it was a crucial tool in maintaining personal freedom.”

When this country was founded the only voters were the taxpayers of the day - property owners. Now young working people realize that owning a home may not be worth the tax burden and loss of mobility in a job market that has workers following jobs like nomads - especially as employers flee heavy local tax burdens.

The left has timed this well in the sense that there is little demand for single-family homes with a young demographic who have no intention of breeding; few of them even see the need for off-street parking for private vehicles they will never own.

[DeplorablePaul]

I guess “do it for the children” as a wedge for communism has worn out. These people never learn.

ps.

The Donald threatens to intervene in the CA “homeless” problem. Clearing the streets of vagrants, arresting drug users and institutionalizing the mentally ill will go over big.

[Bodega]

I agree. No one escapes unscathed from my wrath which will involve defense of my hard earned home ownership.

I keep asking, Why are those Marxists and I include all the Pelosi and Biden and AOC, fans, etc., not considered traitors? If they don’t like our Constitution, Bill of Rights, surely they know other countries that do not have such protections and would be better suited for their political beliefs....

Or, is it conceivable,we are already for the coup that destroys us...the one, you know, that sends us to the concentration camps. I would almost bet we are...well, that is actually how I spent my early years, in a concentration camp run by the Japanese. We’ve already forgotten that, right?

[Bodega]

I agree. No one escapes unscathed from my wrath which will involve defense of my hard earned home ownership.

I keep asking, Why are those Marxists and I include all the Pelosi and Biden and AOC, fans, etc., not considered traitors? If they don’t like our Constitution, Bill of Rights, surely they know other countries that do not have such protections and would be better suited for their political beliefs....

Or, is it conceivable,we are already for the coup that destroys us...the one, you know, that sends us to the concentration camps. I would almost bet we are...well, that is actually how I spent my early years, in a concentration camp run by the Japanese. We’ve already forgotten that, right?

[PreciousLiberty]

There’s a way to take the global warming issue off the table. Start installing next generation nuclear reactors, replacing aging coal plants.

ThorCon and others have low risk designs that don’t need water cooling, and can be sited underground. Virtually no land use (compared to giant solar and wind farms), safe from meltdown and airplane strike, and cheap. Yes, cheap. The modular designs aren’t one-off construction projects, they’re intended to be mass-produced and transported to the site intact.

Intermittent solar and wind require backup, and also extensive grid modification as their contribution rises. Nuclear has neither issue.

By embracing this approach, the Republicans could completely neutralize the global warming issue. Nuclear is the only realistic way to heavily cut CO2 emissions from electric generation, and there’s really no downside. In fact, this would create many new American jobs.

Even better, there’s no need to cut back on our lifestyle or technological progress. Plentiful and cheap power is absolutely a must for the future.

By taking leadership on this issue, we take away one of the few reality-based issues the Dems have. In fact, the Republicans would have the only realistic plan. It would be a giant win!

[mo]

“they” have figured out “homeowners” vote Red....renters vote Blue.

Its that simple in their little minds

[Westbrook]

Excellent and thoughtful post!

[mjp]

The right to own personal property was enshrined by the founders of this country

Individual rights (including right to private property) are absolutes. They are real goods, objective values, right desires, and necessary needs for life proper to a rational being. They are inalienable and are possessed by all individuals. A social system that respects, protects, and defends rights is also a real good.

[Fred Hayek]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

[Widget Jr]

Anyone else find it odd that those who have more influence, wealth, property, and power spend so much of their time looking for excuses for those who have less, to have even less?

[VRW Conspirator]

Kian Goh,

Vanity. This is all about you feeling good about being a hero of the planet. Look at me, look at me! It’s my turn to be worshiped! I am so valiant, I am so brave, so smart.

Short sighted nonsense. You will have to deprive Americans of their God given right to own firearms before you can deprive them of their house.

Of course, I just might be entertained to see a video of you trying to evict someone without taking their guns away first.

Oh, someone else will do the evicting? Coward. Evil bloody coward. Climate Change is a hoax, a con game.

[suthener]

“Individual rights (including right to private property) are absolutes. “

Don’t pay your property tax this year and see how absolute your ownership is.

[buffyt]

We live in a suburb of Austin. At least 99% of the homeless people that I see in Austin are white, not minority.

“he plays the race card in a transparent attempt to curry favor with minorities”

[buffyt]

The original wording of the US Constitution was The right to the pursuit of life, liberty and property. It was from a state constitution. When the US Constitution was written that last word was changed to Happiness.

I learned this at an exhibit at the Library of Congress.

I don’t remember which state, maybe Virginia...

[buffyt]

Who said life liberty and the pursuit of property?
“The pursuit of happiness” is the most famous phrase in the Declaration of Independence. Conventional history and popular wisdom attribute the phrase to the genius of Thomas Jefferson when in an imaginative leap, he replaced the third term of John Locke’s trinity, “life, liberty, and property.”

Why did Jefferson change “property” to the “pursuit of happiness ...

https://historynewsnetwork.org › article
Search for: Who said life liberty and the pursuit of property?

[suthener]

“Anyone else find it odd that those who have more influence, wealth, property, and power spend so much of their time looking for excuses for those who have less, to have even less?”

I realized this when the owners of single family beach front homes fought like crazy to keep condos from being developed near them. They pulled every trick they could think of to keep them out, mostly environmental reasons. It was okay for people who could afford a million dollar home to live on the beach, but not for people who could only afford a quarter million dollar condo.