Fits with my notion that the Democrats were premature in going with "the world is flat."   More politically accurate to just see the world as "flattening" and the President's policies in many ways just early good defensive plays to keep trend from reversing.  We no longer have the cold war to justify/excuse taking money from our rich to fund affirmative economic actions just within our boarders.  The inconvenient truth about the "flattening" of the world and US being the primary super power whose model is being challenged or borrowed around the world.  And how is Paul Wolfowitz these days?

I have to disagree...I see global warming zealots as religious zealots..so making the claim its all about the money is akin to churches only saying their sermons to collect the tithes.  There maybe a few who are solely motivated by the money and power, but overall they believe the lies.

I have been mulling this over here and there for a year or so, and I think I've gotten some good (but vague) idea - at least I can't formulate it well in words.

I started by saying offhand on my blog that Global Warming was clearly going to be the latest Homeless Crisis.  I thought it was cute, but something about it stuck in my mind as if telling me there was more to it than being glib.

Now, I think it does connect to the whole program and goes back to other thoughts I've had about the Cold War and post-Cold War.

The same people and entities pushing this Global Warming crusade are the same ones who pushed the Homeless Crisis crusade.

And we can start to get the bigger picture if we think about the similarities in who was being attacked in each and what they might have been connected to before the Homeless Crisis.

What I have as a working hypothesis that what we have witnessed is this:

after these people had to admit defeat in their aspiratoins to believe (and convince others) that Communism was a viable, ethical alternative to the ills of industrializated capitalism --- once they were forced to admit the Soviet Union, Cuba, China, North Korea, the Eastern Bloc, and so on were much worse off both economically and ethically than what they had been blasting for decades in the US and those who immitated us ----

they decided to drop the ideological debate.

They decided to go Derridian - rather than offering up alternatives and a sound ideological defense for those alternatives -

they viewed their job as just to de-construct Western industrialized capitalism.

Enter - the Homeless Crisis.  This crusade was launched by the same groups at around the time the Soviet Union was collapsing and it looked like the evil American Empire of fat cats and military industrial complex was going to shine in glory of not just being the winner - but proving that its way provided a better life for its people and was so much LESS oppressive.

How could such a nation claim this victory if --- despite its riches, it was so easy for even solid working class families to end up sleeping their cars if they had just a little financial hiccup?

Then enter Clinton, and as Bernard Goldberg has noted well, suddenly the Homeless Crisis went poof......as I guess these groups thought the early attempt to solical medicine was a sign of good things to come (which didn't).

But, regardless, then enter Bush, and Global Warming rises up full throttle to do what? 

Attack the very same entities these same groups have been attacking going back to the 1930s at least:  big business, industrialization, capitalism, and conservatives who support them.

All that is missing in the committment to a real social ideology - meaning a firm, complete system of thought from which they work.

And as someone noted above, they seem to be actually trying to turn Global Warming into an expansive ideology/religion.

The world bank, takes our money and gives it away. It is not a profit making enity. Paul Wolfowitz is the president of the world bank. Jimmy Carter saw fit to send him to the pentagon. If JC liked him, you know he is a socialist at heart. Seeing as he is willing to jump on the energy and global warming band wagon, to gleen more money from us, the USA, all for the sake of distributing that money to the poor countries is a communist act, IMHO that is.

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