Why is it so hard for meteorologists to predict the weather?
Because the climate is always changing. Always has. Always will.
Is the Progressive brain too arrogant, or too insecure to accept the fact that the global climate has always been changing and will always change, no matter what we do?
The only other plausible explanation is that the authors of the Progressive “Man Made Global Warming Climate Change” movement know that the climate is always changing, and are cynically marketing their socialist “progress” wrapped in a cloak of green-activism.
Regardless, it’s an ingenious strategy that simultaneously preys on a citizen’s guilt and fear, while providing them with a mechanism to absolve themselves.
Let’s dissect this for a moment, shall we? For the sake of this exercise, imagine an average American named Richard.
1) Richard feels guilty about the pollution that accompanies his very existence.
2) Richard feels guilty because he has a job that pays enough for him to raise a family and take them on vacation, when there are other people in the world living in huts. Richard is not a jerk, so thoughts like this cross his mind all the time.
3) Richard, like most people, fears the unpredictable and unknown, because it reminds him of how little control he has in this big uncontrollable world. It doesn’t get much more unpredictable and unknown than the future.
4) Progressives tell Richard that he should feel guilty, because his existence is ruining the whole world, and that the future looks bleak.
5) Progressives tell Richard that his success comes at the direct expense of the people living in huts.
6) Progressives tell Richard that he can absolve himself of his guilt only if he agrees to live a Progressive-Green lifestyle, and spend a significant portion of his salary on green taxes and carbon offsets.
7) Progressives tell Richard that this will secure the future by saving the world, and the hut people.
8) Richard accepts the premise of his guilt and absolution, because it gives him a subconscious sense of control over a completely uncontrollable and frightening world.
An optimist would hope that the wisdom of the American people would be strong enough to see through this marketing gimmick.
The first clue that something stinks in this movement should have been apparent by the name change they undertook from “Global Warming” to “Global Climate Change.”
Global warming is empirically questionable, but climate “change” is not.
9) Bill, Richard’s neighbor, meanwhile acknowledges that vast disparities of life are primarliy the fault of despotic leaders who derive a perverse enjoyment in subjugating their fellow man and denying them the freedom that Americans take for granted. Bill undertands that poverty could be cured by the embrace of freedom and capitalism, but for some unexplained reason, the rest of the world chooses not to do so.
Bill thinks to himself, “My country has set the standard for what could be. Other countries could imitate our example, but won’t. I don’t know why.”
10) Bill explains this to Richard, who is relieved to know that the confusion and helplessness he feels was placed there by someone who didn’t want him to think for himself and whose ultimate goal was to control him, his life and his family’s future.
11) Richard becomes a conservative.
Richard is a stupid dick.
I’m with Tommy.
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