Obama is in a free fall, the Democrats are under pressure for their rabid ideology, the real unemployment rate (U6) is at 17.5% or one in five Americans and now we get confirmation of what we knew all along – global warming is the greatest hoax and power grab ever perpetrated on mankind!

Liberalism lives in a sort of “bizaro” world where good intentions and ideology dictate that the elitists know better and you are simply a rube who is too stupid to understand and recognize what is good for you!  Essentially, we see this over time from the progressive “New Deal” policies of FDR to Johnson’s “Great Society” programs and the “Redistributive” practices of the current White House resident.  In every case, the intended consequences were to improve life for people, share the benefit of our wealth and prosperity and provide a safety net for Americans from all walks of life. 

However, as we moved from safety nets to “save the world”, the ideas became bigger, the taxes and control by a global governmental structure more obvious and the need to “prove” the case that we are in imminent catastrophic danger more urgent.  Al Gore first used this idea to promote his agenda and generate his wealth, Ban Ki Moon sees the need for a UN treaty that will bind all nations to this policy and Prince Charles tells us we have only a few months before our destruction.  I love this last one because it is his “boys” that created the sham!

But the most interesting fact of all is that when science or the discovery of facts that do not fit the narrative are generated through reasoned inquiry, the liberal needs to square their worldview with the new fact by either a) ignoring the facts, b) attacking the messenger, c) propagandize and d) lie.

Take the New Deal and Great Society programs.  Social Security and Medicare, which were to be modest programs providing a safety net, are either bankrupt or about to bankrupt this nation.  Can the liberal look back at their own history and review the facts that their projections and desire to expand these services created the failure?  No, it doesn’t square with their worldview, so they ignore those facts and obfuscate the issues by attacking anyone who would point this out.

Welfare and public housing were two other “good ideas” that would help the poor, particularly the black inner city population.  For over forty years, these programs have paid and paid in what is arguably the largest transfer of wealth ever in the history of man – some $8.2 trillion dollars, according to a study published by the Heritage Foundation.  And yet, we have no improvement in poverty, education or family dissolution!  In fact, dropout rates are at the highest level in history, out of wedlock births are approaching 50% and over 70% in some communities and incarceration is increasingly the norm on the resume’ of most poor and particularly, inner city populations.

So, as we turn to global warming, we find these same “do gooders” wanting all of us to partake in their Kool-Aid and tax ourselves into oblivion while their science is quoted as proof that we are indeed a world in trouble.  Yet when the skeptics attempted to demonstrate otherwise, these same liberals decreed that consensus had been reached and the proof was in the fact that so many scientists and the global community had agreed that global warming was a threat and needed to be addressed.  The treaties that have been proposed were such an affront to an freedom loving person as to be completely unacceptable.  And of course, the world community would have been able to transfer huge sums from the “rich countries” to the “poor countries” all through a global governmental agency that was to be formed through this treaty!

The problem with this argument all along has been the fact that consensus is not science.  It only takes one person to refute the assumption with the facts and you have a correction to that consensus.  Most people believed that the earth was at the center of the universe.  In fact, Copernicus postulated that it was the sun at the center of the universe.  But it was Galileo that proved the sun was actually at the center of our solar system.

It was with great pleasure that I discovered that some crafty hackers were able to discover the “facts” of the chief scientific community when they downloaded 61 megabytes of emails.  In a sense, you could say that technology proved the global warming alarmists wrong!  And it will be through that same technology that we will discover the depths to which “junk science” is used to prove the case of the ideologue when it comes to climate change and the political implications that go along with such nonsense.  You see, these ideologues will not succumb to the facts when it comes to their worldview and their desire to change that world.  It is after all the resulting outcome of the intended unintended consequence.

Come to think of it, I believe there is another such ideologue who resides in the White House.  But that’s another blog for another day!