The Cynical Politics of Global Warming and Its Hobgoblins

The Cap and Trade recently passed by the House (but read by no one)deals with energy, taxation and the socalled solution to global worming. For those who need ammunition to fight this bikll in the Senate, a 2008 article by the Center for Vision and values,will provide some ammunition Visit:
"“Cynical politics” may be a redundancy, but it is hard to imagine a mo1re cynical political issue than global warming (GW). In his 1992 book Earth in the Balance, Al Gore called for a “wrenching transformation of society.” Leftists, with their elitist penchant for social engineering, didn’t need any convincing. The challenge for Gore was the inconvenient truth that, in a democracy, a would-be central planner needs to get the masses on his side, too. To do that, he borrowed a strategy encapsulated in H.L. Mencken’s statement, “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” Apocalyptic GW became Al Gore’s hobgoblin of choice."
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