[Smokin' Joe]

If anything, the "fossil fuels" industry has freed more people than virtually any other. How? Freedom from month long treks to get to the next state (on better roads, too!), freedom from the scrub brush, the wash board, from cutting and splitting a small grove of trees to heat and cook, from oil lamps and fireplace smoke (except when we want them). From disease, being soggy, shoveling stables, hauling ice cut from the lake last winter to keep food from spoiling, from wet feet, the list goes on and on. For some, it has meant economic survival and even independence from daily toil.

If they really want to free the population of something onerous, evil, dangerous, and often harmful, they'd just keep most of what they say to themselves.

For some, the greatest contribution they can make to humanity is to do nothing.

[mjp]

First, the logic of the New Totalitarians begins with the flawed assumption that they are setting out to avert an apocalypse of some kind of another.

One of the most annoying things about climate forecasts is the apparent need to predict catastrophe.

[central_va]

There is a step before Civil War, it’s called secession. Don’t get ahead of the game.

[Born to Conserve]

My ancestors and I agreed to the sovereignty of the several states, not of their federation. It would not be rebellion to fight against the feds for the rights of the states, it would be duty.

[grumpygresh]

“The purpose of this sort of intolerance is to make debate impossible.”

This sentence pretty much sums it up. A conflict is inevitable because debate and compromise is impossible. Either one, or perhaps both sides will be destroyed or both sides will go their separate ways.

The problem with the totalitarian Left is that, at least judged by their rhetoric, they will not allow or tolerate any alternative other than the unconditional submission of their opposition.

[vladimir998]

Thanks for posting this - otherwise I might never have learned about Herman Kahn. I’ll have to read some of his books.