{"id":50041,"date":"2023-04-16T14:29:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T18:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50041"},"modified":"2023-04-16T14:29:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T18:29:15","slug":"sometimes-the-contrast-is-amazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50041","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes The Contrast Is Amazing"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, The Federalist<\/a> noted:<\/p>\n

According to the contemporary left, it\u2019s \u201cauthoritarian\u201d for local elected officials to curate school library collections but fine for a powerful centralized federal government to issue an edict compelling a major industry to produce a product and then force hundreds of millions of people to buy it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lately, the federal government seems to believe that it can control the tiniest details of the lives of Americans. Covid was a glaring example of this–you can’t work in certain places unless you have an untested vaccine, you can’t go to church, but you can go to a casino, children can’t attend school, etc. Well, the federal government got away with all those unconstitutional acts, so it’s going to try more. Hang on to your car–they are coming for it if it’s not electric.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

President Biden is set to \u201ctransform\u201d and \u201cremake\u201d the entire auto industry \u2014 \u201cfirst with carrots, now with sticks\u201d\u2014 notes<\/a> the Washington Post, as if dictating the output of a major industry is within the governing purview of the executive branch. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing draconian emissions limits for vehicles, ensuring that 67 percent of all new passenger cars and trucks produced within nine years will be electric. This is state coercion. It is undemocratic. We are not governed; we are managed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In fascist economies, a powerful centralized state \u2014 often led by a demagogue who plays on the nationalistic<\/a> impulses of people \u2014 controls both manufacturing and commerce and dictates prices and wages for the \u201ccommon good.\u201d Any unpatriotic excessive profits are captured by the state. All economic activity must meet state approval. And crony, rent-seeking companies are willing participants. Now, I\u2019m not saying we already live in a fascist economic state. I\u2019m just saying the Democratic Party economic platform sounds like it wishes we were.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to let everybody know that this EPA is committed to protecting the health and well-being of every single person on this planet,\u201d the EPA\u2019s Michael Regan explained<\/a> when announcing the edicts. No one is safer in an EV than a gas-powered vehicle. The authoritarian\u2019s justification for economic control is almost always \u201csafety.\u201d But the entire \u201csafety\u201d claim is tethered to the perpetually disproven theory that our society can\u2019t safely \u2014 and relatively cheaply \u2014 adapt to slight changes in climate. If the state can regulate \u201cgreenhouse gases\u201d as an existential threat, it has the unfettered power to regulate virtually the entire economy. This is why politicians treat every hurricane, tornado, and flood as an apocalyptic event. But in almost every quantifiable way, the climate is less dangerous<\/a> to mankind now than it has ever been. And the more they try to scare us, the less people care.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So let the Chinese communists worry about keeping their population \u201csafe.\u201d Let\u2019s keep this one innovative, open, and free.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elections matter, and the 2024 presidential election REALLY matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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