deepredpond

In both Vermont and the nation.

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” C.S. Lewis

Early 1930’s Germany, ecomony in the toilet, millions out of work, their money next to worthless. Their Country had lost the war to end all wars. And loser pays! The representive (Weimar) Republic was incapable of solving the situation. The German people turned to a Fascist/Socialist political party headed by a demigod who promised everyone a job and Germany back on it’s feet. And everyone knows what happened after.

In America 2020 the economy has never been better, unemployment never lower. We finally have a President that puts America, the Constitution, And it’s citizens freedom first. A President who see no need for America to apoligize for anything. A President Conservatives and Republicans have been waiting a long long time for.

Cultural Marxism has been taught in our High Schools and Universities for the past fifty years. I saw the beginings of the indocrination personally back in the late sixties.

But the old standby of class warfare is made difficult when most of the people pushing a “screw the rich” agenda happen to be filthy stinking rich themselves. But there are several other options in the political correctness playbook. And the one that stands out above all others is “CLIMATE CHANGE“

The Green Mountain State is already the Greenist state in America, but that can never be enough. Not when there’s only 12 years to save the planet, or was it 18 months.

Climate hysteria is rampent especially in Vermont.

Meanwhile, the Sunrise Movement, a national youth coalition with more than 10,000 members, has been ramping up its efforts to swing elections in favor of environmentally progressive candidates. Sunrise launched in 2017 to advocate for politicians who support renewable energy; in the 2018 midterms, half of the 20 candidates whom Sunrise endorsed won office. Among them were Democratic Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Debra Haaland of New Mexico, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.

In its current iteration, the Green New Deal proposes a transition away from fossil fuels on a macro level. Among the systemic reform goals it outlines are zero-emissions public transportation, universal health care, guaranteed wages and ending the oppression of “frontline and vulnerable communities” — including “indigenous peoples, communities of color, migrant communities, deindustrialized communities, depopulated rural communities, the poor, low-income workers, women, the elderly, the unhoused, people with disabilities, and youth

And just how is this all going to be accomplished???

Bernie’s all in with the Green new deal. He has Stormtroopers ready. And thousands and thousands of scared shitless young people who believe the world will become unliveable unless we go back to year one.

Some of the 20 million eco-friendly jobs Bernie promises. Especially for Climate changes deniers.

Establishment Democrats, Obama included, have no love for Bernie. Because Democrats are the party of the rich. and unlike Bernie, they don’t really believe their own B.S. .

Establishment Democrats who advocate free healthcare, education and open borders is just their M.O. of beguiling frightened, uneducated people to give them dictatorial powers in order to save the planet and make things “fair”. Which will never happen.

But remember Progressives; you always end up eat your own.

For the next 90 minutes, Batten waded through Extinction Rebellion’s synopsis of the latest climate science. The only viable course of action, the presentation concluded, is mass mobilization to demand radical and immediate change, on par with the civil-rights movement and Mahatma Gandhi’s nonviolent resistance to British imperial rule.

A few weeks later, a woman who had attended the talk in Montpelier went to an Extinction Rebellion meeting in Burlington. She told me that she probably wouldn’t go back to the Montpelier chapter, because she noticed that Batten had been drinking out of a single-use plastic water bottle during his presentation. She then confessed — glancing around the room furtively, as though someone might be eavesdropping — that she drives a gas-powered SUV.

Some past predictions of the coming ecological apocalypse.

• 2019: The U.N. says we have only a few years left because of warming.
• 2008, on ABC, Good Morning America.  By 2015, New York City would be under water, milk would be $13 per gallon, and gasoline would be $9 per gallon.  Very little of Miami would be left.  (They were so close.)
• 2005: After Katrina, we were told hurricanes would be more frequent and severe than ever.  Instead, we had a ten-year lull in serious hurricanes hitting the U.S.
• 1989: The U.N. said we only have a few years left because of warming.
• 1970: First Earth Day.  Billions would die soon because of global cooling and an ice age.
• 1922: AP and Washington Post: Coastal cities would soon be underwater because the ice caps have melted due to global warming.