Op-Ed: This is no accident

As we endure a Christmas Season plagued with higher inflation than any time since the Carter Administration and rifer with shortages greater than at any time since World War II, we must remember that this is no accident. Biden's policies restricting the fuel and labor supply while expanding the money supply have intentionally produced both inflation and scarcity.

Environmentalists see a deteriorating U.S. dollar and increasingly scarce resources as a necessary step toward alleviating "Man-Made Climate Change." The biggest problem facing Climate Activists is us; our everyday American expectation for a high standard of living.

Radical Greens see our freedom of movement as represented by the personal automobile as a profligate squandering of natural resources. They see our energy use, heating and cooling our homes and businesses year-round to roughly 70 degrees, as nothing less than a wasteful self-indulgence. They see our consumption of food as gluttonous, and our mechanically-eased relief from physical labor as slothful.

These primly sanctimonious elites see the average American citizen as an irredeemably vulgar parasite whose insatiable appetites threaten nothing less than the ongoing existence of life on Earth. They decry our insistence on maintaining our individual rights to the widest possible freedoms, including the right to earn a comfortable living, bear arms and refuse medical treatments, as being socially-destructive selfishness.

Make no mistake. To those Brahmin Princes who fly in private jets to Global Climate Summits, are transported by limousines to green fundraisers, and reside in mansions which consume more energy than a typical small town, we Americans are their biggest problem. They have every intention of “solving” this problem, by any means necessary.

They assert that our Eighteenth Century Enlightenment notions of inalienable natural rights are dangerously outmoded; a proverbial Will-o-the-Wisp enticing us away from their straight-and-narrow path to sustainability. To them, we Americans think far too much about our own wants, and far too little about the needs of others.

If the biosphere is to be restored, we Americans must be stripped of our privileges, impoverished through inflation, and starved of anything beyond those resources which will meet our basic needs.

Principles of Global Equity march hand-in-hand with their concept that the environment's health requires us each to reduce our consumption of resources. Our freedoms and living-standard must be sacrificed to serve what these true believers deem to be economic justice and global survival.

We who are non-elite Americans are seen as latter-day Serfs. Serfs need not aspire to either political influence or lives of luxury. Like many Europeans who are outside today’s bureaucratic, technocratic, plutocratic and hereditary aristocracies, we Americans can be cared for and managed like any other livestock. Our needs can be provided for by their Socialist Welfare State even as our choices can be restricted. For our own good, our betters can compel us to lead healthier, happier and more sustainable lives.

Like a watermelon, the environmental movement is green on the outside and red on the inside. To them, the environmental crisis can be solved in the same way as can socio-economic inequity, through precisely the same totalitarian restrictions on personal autonomy as those employed everywhere by communists.

As your spending power decreases and your supermarket shelves empty, remember that your circumstances are being intentionally reduced for someone else's vision of the greater good.

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In Maine and then Idaho, Ralph K. Ginorio has taught the history of Western Civilization to high school students for nearly a quarter century. He is an “out-of-the-closet” Conservative educator with experience in special education, public schools and charter schools, grades 6-12. He has lived in Coeur d’Alene since 2014. Email: rginorio@cdapress.com