Posted on 10/24/2021 5:13:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber
From someone who's in a position to know, things are about to get really crazy.
Through many years of contacts and acquaintances, Walter Russell Mead has become a quintessential insider to the political establishment. As such, he's privy to the thinking of many people in Washington, including those in the Biden administration.
In a Wall Street Journal piece, Mead lays out the Joe Biden strategy on climate issues. And when I say "Biden," of course I don't mean Joe Biden the man. Unless otherwise specified, I use Biden as an alias for those who installed Biden the man in office and who direct his policies. The only decision Joe is probably allowed to make on his own is what flavor ice cream he's having each day...but for politically correct reasons, it had better not be vanilla.
With that out of the way, we can begin. The Chinese sage Sun Tzu taught that one key to success in war is to know your opposition. Taking that advice, strap on your seat belts and take a drive with me into Crazy Town to hear the Biden strategy on energy.
The nub of their thinking is that pushing the transition from fossil energy to renewables will strengthen the administration's hand both domestically and abroad. On the domestic side, Mead writes, "The Bidenites think the climate offers an opportunity to pry Democratic greens and harder-left progressives apart." This is necessary to give Biden a stronger hand in dealing with China. How so?
The "thinking" goes that the progressive left wants to diminish the military and redirect defense spending to leftish domestic social programs. This does not bode well for confronting China. The greens, on the other hand, are "more centrists in their foreign-policy approach
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I think that many greens and communists are the same person, not different factions of the left. There may be enough of a split to create conflict though.
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This administration breaks it, and then complains that it’s broken. Insane. God help us.
Bkmk
Walter Russell Mead has no clue about what he is writing about, but neither do any other conservative writers on green power (including Alex Epstein, Norman Rogers, etc.).
What the hidden agenda is in green power is called Rent Seeking - the rapacious policy of political advantage of the Knowledge Class Elites at the top in a coalition with the Underclass at the bottom to obtain cheap green power for Blue cities and states, leaving higher priced conventional power for the Middle Class and Working Class Red cities and states. But, you say, conventional power is cheaper and green power is expensive. But energy prices are rigged.
There is a daily advance auction of power in most states and green power gets the first bids. They can pay lower because they are subsidized (the Enron model). This bid rigging leaves conventional power providers at a disadvantage and is putting them out of business -which is the goal of green power.
Mead says green power policy divides people. But this policy was enacted decades ago when states allowed roof top solar power subsidies for the wealthier elites and reduced electricity rates for the poorer families (in California the poor pay 18% to 30% less for power). This leaves the Middle Class in a squeeze of having to pay higher power rates. This is called Rent Seeking - seeking political advantage over a Market based system. This policy of electricity rate setting and solar power for elites divided people a long time ago.
What is happening in California is the Green Power future. They have allowed coalitions of local cities to form power buying cooperatives to put the older regulated utilities out of the electricity generating and selling business. These electricity buyer cooperatives buy mainly subsidized green power, leaving the higher priced power for Red cities and states.
The Biden cabal are vile Marxist globalists. They mean to destroy the American nation and transform what is left into a cog in a one world socialist government run by elites. Policies are designed to destroy capitalism ( starve it with taxes, regulations and unreliable energy supplies, destroy individual liberty and freedom and to cancel as much as the American heritage as possible.
This cancerous, aggressive cabal must be destroyed or the nation will be lost. However very much doubt that the majority of the American population currently free from real want and content to enjoy the decadence around them, really understands what is happening or will do anything about it.
Exxon should cease selling gasoline and diesel in California and New York
Ditto other major suppliers.
In just 3 or 4 days, California would be on it’s knees. California does not need gasoline. California gasoline is toxic to the government.
The government of California must literally die.
IOW, becoming “Green” eventually results in turning “Red”, which inevitably brings the FALL of freedom!
The “Enviromatnetalist” are creating their dream world.
Their arch enemy is the US Consumer. Anything that forces the US consumer to consume less is a win in their world.
Except the greens and the progressives are the same group. Claiming their are sperate groups is total nonsense.
The idea the Biden administration may simply be crazy, rather than malignant, has limited appeal.
The article suffers from normalcy bias.
The days of “policy” are over—we live in the age of kleptocracy.
It is all about the graft and the grift.
Policy is only relevant to college sophomores in political science classes.
Thankfully the only time I was in the “faculty lounge” was to build it. These great “thinkers” never got past solving the worlds problems as freshmen sitting around the living room bonging.
Very cogent analysis.
And Rent Seeking isn’t isolated to the energy sector. It’s pervasive now.
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A succinct analysis of our current situation.
Don’t the democRATs plan to use rainbow colored gay unicorns on their energy generating treadmills hooked to the woke power grid?
LOL!
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