What is Drying up the World's Rivers?

Eisenhower should have warned us about the Political-Educational-Scientific-Media-Entertainment-Big Tech-Military-Industrial Complex!

(Of course, if he did, people would have thought he had a stroke and was emitting word-salad or speaking in tongues! Kind of what we think of Biden...)

I absolutely 100% believe that grants have been a major factor in this. One of the best books on the subject I have read, by Christopher Horner “Red Hot Lies” describes this dynamic in detail.

When access to the teat of grant money to be sucked at by scholastics is controlled by political strings, and those who don’t hew the political line are excluded from grants, then the dynamic takes on a life of its own.

Not only do the people who toe the line get the money, but those who DON’T toe the line have EVERYTHING taken away from them, even things that don’t have anything to do with the “line”. Basically, it quarantines them and makes them persona-non-grata in their field.

Only the biggest names can survive that, and even then, they only manage to survive. They don’t flourish.

You hit it spot on.

Trying to determine what one's "fair share" of water is is a dangerous road to travel.

A few years ago, the overseers of the Commiefornia plantation decided that we could only use 55 gallons of water per day per person per household.

So far, we have refused to comply with that ridiculous law and our overseers have not enforced it.

But, I'm sure that will change eventually. They are already planning on putting meters on our wells and charging us for our water. We already pay for the electricity and filters to pump that water out of the ground. I'm sure the technology to restrict our consumption will be part of those meters even though there is probably as much water under our feet as their is in our rivers and lakes.

Yes, wells do dry up. But that's not necessarily caused by consumption but by virtue of the fact that underground aquifers change direction just as our rivers do.

Gold prospectors use old maps to see where rivers used to flow and search for gold in dry river beds.

There is as much water on this planet as there has ever been. It couldn't be any other way.

Some people may think rain comes from outer space but, if it did, it would've gotten there in the first place because it evaporated to there.

Oh yeah. It is the Leftist use of language to control the narrative.

They didn’t like “Liberals” so they changed it to “Progressives”.

They didn’t like “Homosexual” so they changed it to “Gay”.

They didn’t like “Global Warming” so they changed it to “Climate Change”.

They didn’t like the use of the color blue to describe Republicans and red to define Democrats (because “red” is “oh-too-close” to linking Democrats to Communists, which is uncomfortably close to the truth for them) so they contrived back around 1980 in the media to make that switch thinking it wouldn’t be noticed. It was, but they controlled the narrative so it was a fait accompli.

We could go on an on along those lines.

It is one of the things I despise most about the Left, is their use of language to control the narrative.

And they do it deliberately. They changed the lexicon from “Negro” to “Black”. Then, when it suited them, they changed it from “Black” to “African American”. Then, they changed it from “African American” to “People of Color”.

All done to enable them to wall off people they want to isolate, because those people aren’t privy (or don’t care) about “the rules of usage”.

Most substantial, plain-speaking, honest people don’t care about “the rules of usage”. They care about the underlying concept and aren’t as concerned with what the “lexicon du jour” is.

If “vase” describes a vessel meant to hold flowers perfectly well, those down-to-earth people will still call it a “vase”, even if unsubstantial, manipulative people want to call it something else for some purpose.

If there is a cleavage point between Leftists and Conservatives, the twisting of lexicon is a purely Leftist notion, because they really believe that changing the name of a “thing” makes it something else. (We know that a vase is still a vase)

Leftists employ this as a tool to both conceal failure on their part of some kind (the inability to sell “Global Warming” effectively) to using words to keep people they oppose off balance.

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