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Everywhere you look these days, you see Marxism on the rise. Well, O.K., maybe you dont but conservatives do. If you so much as mention income inequality, youll be denounced as the second coming of Joseph Stalin; Rick Santorum has declared that any use of the word class is Marxism talk. In the rights eyes, sinister motives lurk everywhere for example, George Will says the only reason progressives favor trains is their goal of diminishing Americans individualism in order to make them more amenable to collectivism.
So it goes without saying that Obamacare, based on ideas originally developed at the Heritage Foundation, is a Marxist scheme why, requiring that people purchase insurance is practically the same as sending them to gulags.
And just wait until the Environmental Protection Agency announces rules intended to slow the pace of climate change.
Until now, the rights climate craziness has mainly been focused on attacking the science. And it has been quite a spectacle: At this point almost all card-carrying conservatives endorse the view that climate change is a gigantic hoax, that thousands of research papers showing a warming planet 97 percent of the literature are the product of a vast international conspiracy. But as the Obama administration moves toward actually doing something based on that science, crazy climate economics will come into its own.
You can already get a taste of whats coming in the dissenting opinions from a recent Supreme Court ruling on power-plant pollution. A majority of the justices agreed that the E.P.A. has the right to regulate smog from coal-fired power plants, which drifts across state lines. But Justice Scalia didnt just dissent; he suggested that the E.P.A.s proposed rule which would tie the size of required smog reductions to cost reflected the Marxist concept of from each according to his ability. Taking cost into consideration is Marxist? Who knew?
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The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)pretty miserable at getting their points across compared to loudmouthed hucksters. Or anyone whose income depends on not listening to scientists.
When it really gets bad is when businesses and the public realize that they will have to change business methods, lifestyles, and suffer other major inconveniences to make the changes we need.
Around here we can't get people to recycle cans. Imagine if we made them drain their pools.