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Connecticut Democrat Governor Ned Lamont and the state’s majority Democrat General Assembly seem determined to follow California’s Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom down a neo-progressive rabbit hole.
One of the distinguishing characteristics of neo-progressivism
is its vacuous unconcern with attendant consequences. After the neo-progressive
assault on the internal combustion engine has been completed, radical
environmental extremists in the United States likely will call upon the U.S.
Congress to repeal Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Motion, which states that for
every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Generally, the Law means
that when one object exerts a force on another object, the second object exerts
a force of equal magnitude and opposite direction on the first object.
The law applies as well in the realm of ideas. Every idea,
especially an insupportable one, generates an equal and opposing restorative
idea.
People in Connecticut who own, through no fault of their
own, gas-powered cars are likely to detect a whiff of California in the air.
Like the administration of Governor Gavin Newsom in
California, the Lamont administration, operating under the watchful eyes of
Democrat President Joe Biden, has pronounced a pox on gas powered vehicles and,
unsurprisingly, on fossil fuel extraction.
Numbers in politics matter more than policy prescriptions.
And here in the “land of steady (bad) habits,” Democrat voters outnumber
Republican voters by a two to one margin. The state’s larger cities,
substantial Democrat anchors, have been dominated by the Democrat Party for at
least three decades. Democrats in the state’s General Assembly enjoy a nearly
veto proof majority, and Connecticut’s media has long regarded with a baleful
eye conservatives and their solutions of annoyingly persistent problems.
The central tenant of neo-progressivism is: We want more,
particularly, a larger and more cumbersome government, and you cannot have more
government if you cut spending. Since Democrats in Connecticut control the political,
cultural and media heights, the average Connecticut voter is not likely to
notice that spending cuts will be minimal and in some cases self-elapsing.
Most components used in solar and wind energy, both
supported by the Lamont administration, are manufactured in China. Most of the
refining capacity for rare earth elements, cobalt, copper, and nickel,
essential in solar and wind production, is located in China.
Here are the figures, supplied through a recent book written
by Texas U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, Unwoke:
How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America, a review of which was published
in The Epoch Times: “‘China controls
refining capacity for 73 percent of the world's cobalt, 40 percent of the
copper, 59 percent of the lithium, 68 percent of the nickel, and 83 percent of
the rare earth metals,’ Mr. Cruz said. ‘Every one of those is necessary for
wind and solar power… China is responsible for 80 percent of global solar panel
manufacturing. ... 70 percent of global wind turbine manufacturing, and 77
percent of global lithium-ion battery manufacturing.’”
The fascist ruler of China, Xi Jinping, was recently royally
received by California’s head of state. Not since Cleopatra’s seduction of the
world conquering Julius Caesar in Egypt, was a hero so splendidly feted.
Newsome made certain that the streets of San Francisco over which he once
presided as mayor were cleared of human eyesores. San Francisco’s homeless were
hustled off somewhere. News items celebrating both Newsom and Xi Jinping were
vetted everywhere, and the Chinese President’s lapses – his vicious treatment,
for example, of China’s much persecuted Uyghurs and other Muslims interred in Chinese
re-education camps since 2017 as part of
a "people's war on terror" – were munificently tolerated during his
stay.
Columnists and wits in New England have yet to suggest that
Xi, a human vacuum cleaner, should be feted in other American cities where homelessness
has come home to roost, such as illegal immigrant besieged Chicago and New York
City.
Qui bono? Who stands
to gain from the continuing war on the internal combustion engine, Biden’s
suppurating open southern border, his inflationary spending, his absurd foreign
policy choices – recklessly oblivious to Newton’s Third Law of Motion – if not
Xi Jinping, who has cornered Connecticut’s market on the production of
windmills and solar panel eyesores, while other clean energy resources in the
United States such as nuclear energy production and natural gas production
remain untapped?
Xi’s problematic economy will be boosted by the sale and imports
of products and materials most abundantly available in China, while a narrowing
of energy products lying right under our feet such as natural gas, much cleaner
than dirty coal widely available in China, will make a beggar nation of the
United States as energy costs, owing to a reduction in supply, increases by
leaps and bounds.
Given these economic conditions, it should be relatively
easy for voters in the upcoming 2024 election to compute winners and losers in
what Democrats are pleased to call the economic “competition” between China and
what remains of the free world.
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