I have a different view. Yale grad so he isn’t stupid, decided young that he wanted to be a noted fish in the pond so went with the Godless leftist conspiracies of the day as his mantra. It has served him well.
Rush Limbaugh’s ideas of environmental issues being a religion ring true with John effing Kerry as a prime example. Normal folks don’t need the applause of man to feed a voracious ego. They are content with life as God has provided and their abilities warrant.
John appears to be happy supplanting God as a lesser entity than himself and the Kudos of a complicit public feed the need. Does he recognize truth, or is he in a State of blissful ignorance?
You wrote “John appears to be happy supplanting God as a lesser entity than himself”
I agree with your observation. The man has a monstrous, out-size ego. But doesn’t thinking that he is bigger than God strongly indicate a man with serious mental problems?