Friday, February 23, 2007
The Ideology of a Thousand Masks -- Socialism
Whether Global Warming, inequality, or anti-Americanism (which can now be considered an official "ism"), the big ism of big state authority continues to use any gripe it can to arouse the "masses" to support the rule of bureaucrats and "philosopher kings."
Some good links in this regard follow:
From Davids Medienkritik:
"...The United States is number one in greenhouse gas emissions primarily because it is the number one economy in the world. With 5% of the world's population we produce 25% of global wealth. And despite being relatively clean and green, Germany leads Europe in emissions, because it is Europe's largest economy. Our emissions are not out of line with the size of our economy. And it's worth noting: the International Energy Agency is forecasting that China, with a smaller economy, is expected to surpass U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2009..."
and The American Thinker:
"...For the international Left today, the EU is the new USSR, the hope of all nations for love and peace on earth, forever and ever. Its first objective is to humiliate the United States --- or to control the US, to make it the tugboat that pulls the rest of the world to socialism. That is presumably what Hillary Clinton meant when she recently called for more "internationalism" in US foreign policy."
