“Nor will I ever understand how enough of those people got themselves into positions of sufficient political power to put their wacko energy ideas into effect.“
By being ACTIVIST. It started in the 60s. They literally simply went outside and started screaming. The press, sympathetic , helped in any way they could with careful edits and tight shots. And that’s it and now we live in their world, a fact that eludes most people because they have slowly acclimated to the insanity.
Your kid’s transgender? How nice! Need a cop or a firefighter or a soldier and some government approved variation of DEI shows up? Excellent! Got a space shuttle the exterior of which requires a special tile to withstand re-entry heat but the activist have replaced it with an inferior mix because OZONE HOLE!? Too bad. Go place flowers on the astronauts graves then get your dull brain straight and get with us and STFU! We are noble and anything we do is for your own good.
A huge amount of the insanity was never voted on. It was either the courts or ceded congressional authority to bureaucrats and if one of these authorities says that they can take your kid and literally chop up his or her genitals you will sit down. You will STFU. And you will like it.
Can you even imagine what the activists would be doing if their equivalent of a deviant showing up in their kindergarteners classroom happened? Hint: The press wouldn’t see to use tight shots on that one.
Yes. As you said:
"...By being ACTIVIST..." In drilling down inside the Manhattan Contrarian article links, he directed readers to view the comments here at this government website which was accepting "citizen input" in the form of commentary.
It is honestly one of the stupidestly constructed web pages for commentary I have ever seen, but that is beside the point-but you can't read the commentary (ie scroll through them) you have to download and read each one as a document! Yay government!
I read the dozen top ones, and every single one was a Leftist Climate Alarmist note opining that more needed to be done, and that we weren't going far enough in closing down oil, gas, and coal plants by 2038. But do you see a pattern in this list of comments?
It is all Leftist females, with only an occasional cuck-Leftist "male" in there. Here is an example of just one of the "comments", but they are ALL very similar, obviously organized via some climate group campaign:
LINK: "Regulations.gov (Your voice in Federal Decision Making)
Like the Manhattan Contrarian says: "...The deadline for commenting on the proposed Rule was August 8 2023, although comments have continued to pile in after that date. Many hundreds of them have been received. If you have nothing else to do for the next month or two, you can review the comments at this link..."