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04-04-2008, 05:03 PM
Apocalyptic Liberals
Daniel Greenfield
April 3, 2008
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/2479
QUOTE: ""I think if we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a
chance of saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have
an ecological society under socialism. I don't think it's possible under
capitalism." Judi Barri, Earth First "
"We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and
basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died
and the rest of us will be cannibals. Civilization will have broken
down."
--Ted Turner
Millennial fever is a well known phenomenon. The last time it happened
around 1000 CE, portions of Europe decided the apocalypse was nigh,
began selling their possessions and preparing for the end.
Around 2000, the media and people with fallout shelters managed to
convince a sizable amount of the public that the Y2K bug would cause
everything from nuclear disasters to bank failures were imminent. Of
course none of that came about.
While liberals like to paint a picture of conservative Republicans as
crazed doommongers eagerly anticipating the apocalypse, it's liberals
who have given us the two great apocalyptic panics of the last 50 years.
"Not doing it is suicide. Just like dropping bombs on each other,
nuclear weapons is suicide. We've got to stop doing the suicidal two
things, which are hanging on to our nuclear weapons and after that we've
got to stabilize the population."
--Ted Turner
When liberals don't like a policy, they turn it into a giant boogeyman.
The liberal response to the cold war was to run around screaming for 30
years that the nuclear missiles were about to fall and wipe out the
entire planet. Endless tedious novels, movies and songs were produced
based on the premise that we were all about to die. At the heart of that
obsession was the idea of "Nuclear Winter", a concept which had as
little credibility as human centered global warming does.
Nuclear Winter and the liberal understanding of Global Warming had one
important thing in common, they were both pseudoscientific theories that
postulated that humans could somehow destroy the earth for our sins,
those sins being the sins of fighting Communism and buying consumer
products. In a certain light of course both Nuclear Winter and Global
Warming were the punishment for a single sin, capitalism. It isn't that
liberals don't like their luxuries, their large homes, their luxury
goods and their cars. It's just that they don't like the idea of
widescale prosperity or a system where there is no real deprived
underclass. And so is born Global Warming, which proclaims in short that
if we don't start driving up the cost of products fast so as to price
them out of the range of working people, the world will end.
"We already have too much economic growth in the United States. Economic
growth in rich countries like ours is the disease, not the cure."
Paul Erlich (Al Gore advisor)
The same liberals who routinely pooh pooh the idea that Islamic
terrorism is a grave threat despite the thousands dead, expect us to
believe that the real threat involves the extinction of the non-extinct
polar bears. Forget fighting a war, they cry, the real problem is that
if we don't do something soon, we'll be all reduced to eating each other
soon enough and wandering the land trying to bite out each other's
brains.
If conservatives like their war movies, it's clear that liberals like
their Science Fiction.
For thousands of years of recorded history the earth has gone through
warming and cooling periods. The fossil records back it up. We've gone
from hippos in the Thames to Londoners buttoned up against the cold,
long before the Industrial Revolution came along. Humans can kill each
other, we can wipe out entire forests, but we can no more destroy the
earth than we could win a boxing match with an elephant.
Liberals know that too.
"If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a
killer virus to lower human population levels." Prince Philip, WWF
The goal of Nuclear Panic and Global Warming was to create within
Americans a twinned sense of great power and impotence through the
belief that we were so powerful that any wrong move by us will destroy
everything including ourselves. The goal was to make us believe that we
were a bull and the world was a china shop and that any use of our power
would destroy everything.
That in a phrase sums up the liberal mindset on every American issue
from foreign policy and national defense to industry. America is just
too dangerous. The only solution is to diminish, to shrink within
ourselves, to feel guilty and ashamed for everything we've done and for
everything we're set to do.
And at the heart of that is the real faith of liberalism, not in hope
but in fear. Forget the positive slogans and the upbeat messages. Behind
them all is the propaganda of naked raw fear. And the message is simple,
"Stop what you're doing or we'll all die."
"Stop showering. Stop using toilet paper. Stop carrying plastic bags.
Stop drinking bottled water. Stop driving. Stop flying. Stop going
anywhere except to global warming rallies. Stop doing anything. Just
stop. Stop. Stop. Stop."
There's nothing positive left about the environmental movement which
runs as much on guilt and fear as any middle ages cleric. It's become a
horde of Chicken Littles crying that the sky is about to fall, not
because they believe it, but because they want us to believe it. They
need us to believe it so that we're afraid.
"I think if we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of
saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have an
ecological society under socialism. I don't think it's possible under
capitalism." Judi Barri, Earth First
Problems require solutions. Frighten people with a seemingly plausible
threat, never mind that it doesn't exist, and you can harness the power
of nightmares to implement your agenda. It's what liberals have
repeatedly accused conservatives of, and they should know because they
are the biggest practitioners of it.
There is nothing positive about liberalism. Subtract the guilt and fear
and nothing is left. All liberalism comes down to is government control,
social conformity and political terror. And to get the public to accept
those three, you need a grave threat. You need to convince them to
ignore the social crises and real threats created by their policies and
focus on the nightmare they have created. You need to recirculate and
distribute that nightmare wholesale to the public through TV shows,
books, movies and films.
You need to convince the public that they're going to die, that their
children will starve and eat each other. unless they vote a liberal in.
You need to convince them that they're at fault. That they're guilty.
That their very existence is a toxic plague. And then they'll bow their
heads, hate themselves and surrender to a higher power. Not God. But the
men in charge.
Welcome to socialism.
"Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social
and environmental." Dave Forman, Founder of Earth First!
--
Warmest Regards
Bonzo
"CO2 variations show little correlation with our planet's climate on
long, medium and even short time scales." R. Timothy Patterson,
Professor Of Geology, Director Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Center,
Carleton University, Canada
Daniel Greenfield
April 3, 2008
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/2479
QUOTE: ""I think if we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a
chance of saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have
an ecological society under socialism. I don't think it's possible under
capitalism." Judi Barri, Earth First "
"We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and
basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died
and the rest of us will be cannibals. Civilization will have broken
down."
--Ted Turner
Millennial fever is a well known phenomenon. The last time it happened
around 1000 CE, portions of Europe decided the apocalypse was nigh,
began selling their possessions and preparing for the end.
Around 2000, the media and people with fallout shelters managed to
convince a sizable amount of the public that the Y2K bug would cause
everything from nuclear disasters to bank failures were imminent. Of
course none of that came about.
While liberals like to paint a picture of conservative Republicans as
crazed doommongers eagerly anticipating the apocalypse, it's liberals
who have given us the two great apocalyptic panics of the last 50 years.
"Not doing it is suicide. Just like dropping bombs on each other,
nuclear weapons is suicide. We've got to stop doing the suicidal two
things, which are hanging on to our nuclear weapons and after that we've
got to stabilize the population."
--Ted Turner
When liberals don't like a policy, they turn it into a giant boogeyman.
The liberal response to the cold war was to run around screaming for 30
years that the nuclear missiles were about to fall and wipe out the
entire planet. Endless tedious novels, movies and songs were produced
based on the premise that we were all about to die. At the heart of that
obsession was the idea of "Nuclear Winter", a concept which had as
little credibility as human centered global warming does.
Nuclear Winter and the liberal understanding of Global Warming had one
important thing in common, they were both pseudoscientific theories that
postulated that humans could somehow destroy the earth for our sins,
those sins being the sins of fighting Communism and buying consumer
products. In a certain light of course both Nuclear Winter and Global
Warming were the punishment for a single sin, capitalism. It isn't that
liberals don't like their luxuries, their large homes, their luxury
goods and their cars. It's just that they don't like the idea of
widescale prosperity or a system where there is no real deprived
underclass. And so is born Global Warming, which proclaims in short that
if we don't start driving up the cost of products fast so as to price
them out of the range of working people, the world will end.
"We already have too much economic growth in the United States. Economic
growth in rich countries like ours is the disease, not the cure."
Paul Erlich (Al Gore advisor)
The same liberals who routinely pooh pooh the idea that Islamic
terrorism is a grave threat despite the thousands dead, expect us to
believe that the real threat involves the extinction of the non-extinct
polar bears. Forget fighting a war, they cry, the real problem is that
if we don't do something soon, we'll be all reduced to eating each other
soon enough and wandering the land trying to bite out each other's
brains.
If conservatives like their war movies, it's clear that liberals like
their Science Fiction.
For thousands of years of recorded history the earth has gone through
warming and cooling periods. The fossil records back it up. We've gone
from hippos in the Thames to Londoners buttoned up against the cold,
long before the Industrial Revolution came along. Humans can kill each
other, we can wipe out entire forests, but we can no more destroy the
earth than we could win a boxing match with an elephant.
Liberals know that too.
"If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a
killer virus to lower human population levels." Prince Philip, WWF
The goal of Nuclear Panic and Global Warming was to create within
Americans a twinned sense of great power and impotence through the
belief that we were so powerful that any wrong move by us will destroy
everything including ourselves. The goal was to make us believe that we
were a bull and the world was a china shop and that any use of our power
would destroy everything.
That in a phrase sums up the liberal mindset on every American issue
from foreign policy and national defense to industry. America is just
too dangerous. The only solution is to diminish, to shrink within
ourselves, to feel guilty and ashamed for everything we've done and for
everything we're set to do.
And at the heart of that is the real faith of liberalism, not in hope
but in fear. Forget the positive slogans and the upbeat messages. Behind
them all is the propaganda of naked raw fear. And the message is simple,
"Stop what you're doing or we'll all die."
"Stop showering. Stop using toilet paper. Stop carrying plastic bags.
Stop drinking bottled water. Stop driving. Stop flying. Stop going
anywhere except to global warming rallies. Stop doing anything. Just
stop. Stop. Stop. Stop."
There's nothing positive left about the environmental movement which
runs as much on guilt and fear as any middle ages cleric. It's become a
horde of Chicken Littles crying that the sky is about to fall, not
because they believe it, but because they want us to believe it. They
need us to believe it so that we're afraid.
"I think if we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of
saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have an
ecological society under socialism. I don't think it's possible under
capitalism." Judi Barri, Earth First
Problems require solutions. Frighten people with a seemingly plausible
threat, never mind that it doesn't exist, and you can harness the power
of nightmares to implement your agenda. It's what liberals have
repeatedly accused conservatives of, and they should know because they
are the biggest practitioners of it.
There is nothing positive about liberalism. Subtract the guilt and fear
and nothing is left. All liberalism comes down to is government control,
social conformity and political terror. And to get the public to accept
those three, you need a grave threat. You need to convince them to
ignore the social crises and real threats created by their policies and
focus on the nightmare they have created. You need to recirculate and
distribute that nightmare wholesale to the public through TV shows,
books, movies and films.
You need to convince the public that they're going to die, that their
children will starve and eat each other. unless they vote a liberal in.
You need to convince them that they're at fault. That they're guilty.
That their very existence is a toxic plague. And then they'll bow their
heads, hate themselves and surrender to a higher power. Not God. But the
men in charge.
Welcome to socialism.
"Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social
and environmental." Dave Forman, Founder of Earth First!
--
Warmest Regards
Bonzo
"CO2 variations show little correlation with our planet's climate on
long, medium and even short time scales." R. Timothy Patterson,
Professor Of Geology, Director Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Center,
Carleton University, Canada