Posted on 05/30/2008 10:11:23 PM PDT by CreativePerspective
For a century, an ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous knowledge class -- social planners, scientists, intellectuals, experts and their left-wing political allies -- arrogated to themselves the right to rule either in the name of the oppressed working class (communism) or, in its more benign form, by virtue of their superior expertise in achieving the highest social progress by means of state planning (socialism).
Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market capitalism everywhere from Thatcher's England to Deng's China, where just the partial abolition of socialism lifted more people out of poverty more rapidly than ever in human history.
Just as the ash heap of history beckoned, the intellectual left was handed the ultimate salvation: environmentalism. Now the experts will regulate your life not in the name of the proletariat or Fabian socialism but -- even better -- in the name of Earth itself.
Environmentalists are Gaia's priests, instructing us in her proper service and casting out those who refuse to genuflect. (See Newsweek above.) And having proclaimed the ultimate commandment -- carbon chastity -- they are preparing the supporting canonical legislation that will tell you how much you can travel, what kind of light you will read by, and at what temperature you may set your bedroom thermostat.
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The most obvious step is a major move to nuclear power, which to the atmosphere is the cleanest of the clean.
But your would-be masters have foreseen this contingency. The Church of the Environment promulgates secondary dogmas as well. One of these is a strict nuclear taboo.
Rather convenient, is it not? Take this major coal-substituting fix off the table and we will be rationing all the more. Guess who does the rationing?
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
They are wateermelons; green on the outside, but red in the inside..
If Republicans had any sense, they'd have allowed California to regulate CO2.
California would have screwed itself so thoroughly that it would have been a good lesson for the rest of the nation.
It's easy for those distant from the real world to preach to the rest of us about how things should or shouldn't be done. We often times even protect them from themselves. The deductability of state/local taxes, for example, creates what is in effect a subsidy for high tax and bloated beuracracy.
Yet how many times have Republicans defended such deductions on the grounds that removing them would be a tax-increase?
Or what about the home mortgage interest deduction?
Again the most liberal states receives the bulk of deductions. And again Republicans oppose removing the deduction.
If you want to cure enviromentalists make them live the life they say we all should live. Same with leftists in general.
I’ve been saying this for over 10 years.
Earlier today was this post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023644/posts
...and my response:
“Science is hereby marginalized by this report. Our future is now officially in the hands of the Grimmists of Environmentalism.”
“There will be no reprieve from insanity.”
“Grimmists” is self coined, and a reference to Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
The Environmentalists haven’t any oversight. Without any oversight whatsoever they are all powerful.
This article by Charles Krauthammer is spot on.
Rush Limbaugh told us years ago that the global socialists had their wagon hitched to the supposedly rising and unbeatable Red Star of the Soviet Union, and as soon as that dream failed, without skipping a beat, they transferred their socialist dream to the extreme ideologies of Environmentalism. It appears to be serving them extremely well.
Earth Day is Lenin’s birthday.
Coincidence or Communism?
Title should read:
Obammunists pick up where communists left off
Not to mention that even if the US would cut back significantly, the developing countries, such as China, India, and others would more than make up for it, because they are not about to cripple their economy based on the “Grimmists” (as you called them) alarmism.
So “conserving” in the US would be futile and would only turn the US into a third world country, run by enviro-dictators, whose real objective is indeed the control and destruction of the US. If they were truly concerned about “global warming”, they would embrace nuclear energy.
Krauthammer sees right through them — real objective is control, using any means possible, right now the “climate change” slogan legitimizes them.
France gets 80% of their energy from nuclear. If the entire world would follow their example and only use oil to make gasoline for transportation, a barrel of oil would go from $130 to $20.
They're not altogether different from the communists who preceded them; most dyed in the wool communists had never worked a "workingman's" job a day in their life.
Ping
It has worked well, and frighteningly so!
With the Soviet Union, the Communists were compelled to acknowledge the absolute failure of their ideologies with the collapse of the country.
With environmentalism, they can conceal their long term objectives behind a false "science" without ever having to truly prove their claims or produce any results.
A big mistake, IMO, is that many people believed this to be the case. Socialism never died, as evidenced by just about any country in Western Europe, and communism while it may have collapsed in the Soviet Union, simply went into hibernation to regroup.
I suspect that John S. McCain may pick up on what Krauthammer is saying since Krauthammer is “inside the beltway.”
Both McCain and business leaders who are preaching “climate change” gloom and doom better wake up before freedom is flushed down the toilet.
Of course, in the “green utopia” water won’t be allowed in toilets anymore.
BRILLIANT article. Didn’t know that about the Carbon Cards. Commie regulations coming here soon, if the Rats have anything to say about it.
Somebody's finally connecting the dots.
Does anyone really think that anti-market environmental legislation, preventing the market from seeking a scarce good, being pushed harder than ever at a time when that good is being controlled by a communist regime to all-time-high prices, is a freaking co-incidence?
Does anybody see that this is economic warfare, plain and simple, and it can destroy an economy?
Ayn Rand said it first in “The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution.”
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