If you’ve enjoyed the last 10 months of foolish, science-denying lockdowns and mask mandates, the widespread destruction of businesses and economies, the government telling you what jobs are “essential” and how you are to conduct yourself in your own home, then you must absolutely love the democrats’ climate agenda.
For decades, the climate cultists from the “New
Religion of First World Elites” have attempted to use fear—the
destruction of the planet—and a fake cause—saving the planet—to convince
Americans to vote for democrats and enact the perverse science-denying climate
agenda of the modern left. For a primer on how this would work, look no further
than 2020.
As soon as the Wuhan virus entered the U.S. in early 2020,
democrats across the U.S. saw it as a means to a political end. Of course,
consumed with hatred and obsessed with the removal of President Trump, the 2020
Presidential Election was their primary political target. To help accomplish
this, democrats in politics and the media rampantly spread Wuhan virus fear
porn. Subsequently, democrat mayors and governors across the U.S—encouraged and
enabled by their like-minded allies in D.C. and the media—enacted widespread and
economically devastating lockdowns and accompanying measures.
In spite of the fact that most of these measures were
unproven and unnecessary—time again has proven
this true—the democrats persisted because “orange man bad.” They
also persisted because, to paraphrase David Horowitz, inside every
leftist is a totalitarian screaming to get out. Because of their lust for
political power—because they have made a god
of government—leftists are always looking for the next problem that
their government elites (supposedly) alone can “solve.” Again, the Wuhan virus
provided an excellent opportunity for this.
If you can convince people that they’re going to die if they
don’t do as you say, those in power hold great sway. As C.S. Lewis cautioned
lovers of liberty in the mid-twentieth century, “A hungry man thinks about
food, not freedom.” Today, a corollary to this would be, “A man living in a
pandemic thinks about remaining healthy and alive, not about his liberties.”
Likewise, if you think the planet is doomed if we don’t do
away with fossil fuels or stop eating beef, then you are probably willing to
give power to those who promise to take such things away—by force, if
necessary. After all, if the planet is doomed otherwise, what force to do such
things could be unjustified?
Whether a virus “emergency” or a climate “crisis,” in an
attempt to justify their totalitarian agenda, leftists the world over tell us
that we must heed their so-called “experts” along with their computer
models. Most often, the main role for these “experts” is to give a
Big Government, which is already too willing to encroach on our lives, even
more of a reason for doing so. This is especially true in times of crisis, whether
the crisis is real or manufactured.
Sadly, as 2020 well demonstrated, in such times many of us
are far too eager to become what Lewis called in 1958 “Willing Slaves of the
Welfare State.” Typically, in order for any oligarchy to rise and rule effectively,
it needs some “extreme peril,” something to cure, some desperate need that the
rulers promise to fulfill. As Lewis asked, is this not “the ideal opportunity
for enslavement?”
When a generation lives in fear or dread of some looming
crisis or when a society is made to believe that someone else can provide the
things that it supposedly cannot live without, is this not the opportunity for
those who seek to rule over us to be seen as liberators rather than the
totalitarian tyrants that they are?
Today’s totalitarian left is devoted to scientism,
and their government can well be described as a technocracy. Thus, when the
American left is in power, the motto of the technocrats prevails: “only
science can save us now” or “science
is the way out.” Whether it is a global pandemic, global warming—excuse
me, “climate change”—stem-cell research, the beginning of life, healthcare,
crime, homosexuality and marriage, or even gun control, racism, or economic
policies, the technocrats claim to have the answers.
Scientism almost always leads to a technocracy. “I dread
government in the name of science,” said Lewis. “That is how tyrannies come
in.” What a profound conclusion! How many of us have been duped in the name of
“science?” How many of us cower and yield—or “shelter at home”—because, well,
if the “scientists” (and then the politicians) tell us to do so, then we must
do so?
Sadly, too many of us then grow accustomed to our chains. We
become children, or pupils of the State (like “Julia”).
We continue to elect leaders who perpetuate the cycle of the “Welfare State,”
based significantly on the lies of scientism. Like their agenda to fight the
Wuhan virus, the left’s climate agenda reeks of scientism and technocracy.
There is hardly a cause in the universe that has gotten more
wrong than the climate cultists who, for decades, have proffered a wide array
of climate catastrophes that require immediate, or near-immediate, actions. Time
and again these doomsday scenarios have been proven wrong. These climate cultists have long relied on the deceptive
use of data to push their totalitarian agenda. Daily it seems we are
subjected to “another
global warming fraud.” I suppose everybody needs an
Apocalypse—especially totalitarians lusting for power.
Climate science has become such
a joke that the “faithful” for years now have been led by a child.
However, their dangerous and destructive climate policies are no joke. The left
has shown us what they will do when governing in a “crisis.” However, I fear
that lockdowns and mask mandates will pale in comparison to what will be called
for if the American left’s climate agenda gets the force of U.S. law. We’ve
seen how many businesses the left can destroy in the name of controlling a
virus; imagine the destruction they can wreak if they control America’s energy
policy.
(See this column at American Thinker and Climate Depot.)
Copyright 2020, Trevor
Grant Thomas
At
the Intersection of Politics, Science, Faith, and Reason.
www.trevorgrantthomas.com
Trevor
is the author of the The
Miracle and Magnificence of America
tthomas@trevorgrantthomas.com
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