Global warming—it’s real and it’s spectacular!
Global warming is real. No question. Now, whether or not we can really do anything about it is a whole different issue that I’m not going to address because I don’t care about the atmosphere. Not my thing. However what does strike my interest are the reasons why so many liberals have attached themselves to this whole new experiment in social engineering visible in the campaign against “Climate Change”. New Deal, Great Society, and…Climate Change. Finally, something has come along that allows liberalism to express itself purely again.
It’s been tough for grass roots liberals to have their true voices heard. They had to follow the dull technocraticism of the Clintons; the anemic platform of Gore and the genuinely uncomfortable feeling that listening to John Kerry speak generates. The arrival of climate change to the national consciousness has created a cause worth fighting for. And, one with real implications!! Now liberalism can finally realize a reinvigoration of policy and speak with the same passion about ideas that they believe in that conservatives do.
You see, liberalism is not such an indiscernible ethos after all. It can seem that way in today’s political scene because so many liberals are deathly afraid of revealing what they believe. Hence, the focus group- influenced syntax that dominated the speeches of Kerry, Gore and now dominates Hill-Dog’s. However, in truth, modern liberalism is a watered down variation of Socialism, and what Marx and other lunatics like Mao and Pol Pot were most concerned with was redefining the bourgeois man. Socialism was to be the answer to man’s excesses; the system that would lessen the types of indulgences that led to the oppression of the proletariat. Of course their redefinition required some really scary shit like collective farming, reeducation camps and the like. What these belief systems and liberalism all have in common is an inherent yearning to diminish man’s wants and consumption closer to what his actual needs are. Modern liberalism is simply a less radical method to achieve this goal. For that reason, in part, the fight against global warming appeals to today’s liberals.
Now of course there are many liberals with a genuine concern for the environment, but liberalism’s rally against climate change would not be as enthusiastic if fighting global warming required an increase in individual consumption. That would go against what leftist thought sees as the problem with mankind and wouldn’t get the emotional response associated with capping our wants. Just check out the differences in eloquence and persuasiveness evident in speeches given by Al Gore about global warming vs. trade or military spending. Global warming elicits more zeal in Al; he bangs his hand on the lectern and pleads for likeminded believers of the world to unite.
Al doesn’t put me to sleep when he speaks so strongly about what he believes in. Recent news suggests he’s a hypocrite since his house requires about as much electricity as West Virginia. Well anyone that believes in anything usually ends up being hypocritical at some point. FDR was a rich aristocrat, but that didn’t mean that his move to force the rich to contribute more during the Great Depression didn’t have merit. Ronald Reagan hated commies, but negotiating with Gorbachev didn’t mean he capitulated to the Soviets and it didn’t mean he was going back on his word.
Conservatives should work to take global warming as a cause of our own. Only we won’t be motivated by limiting individual consumption and protecting the atmosphere. It will instead be our decision to end the vicarious funding we provide to the terrorist groups that blow up our buildings.
Commenting on the inevitable war between the United States and the Soviet Union, Lenin wrongly predicted that the “capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them”. Our current situation is even worse in that we knowingly fund the people that kill us rather than selling away with blinding greed our national security to those who would do us harm. Buying less gas can be a conservative cause too. We should be sick of lining the pockets of various jihadi fanatics. Then again, I am really cheap (euphemism for poor), so everything I just wrote may have been skewed by my aversion to high gas prices.