Freedom and Democracy Are So Passé

The answer is, no. No, we can't. There are some things that cannot be compromised. Among them are freedom and democracy, but just as importantly the defense of these United States.

No one, it seems, can be brought to care about millions of people still living in tyranny and terror. Nor care that such disturbance aren't just mild blips on edge of our national psyche, but have historically led to the rise of the worst sorts of evil ideologies and become threats to those same passé principles of Freedom and Democracy.

The most gauche slip of all is to refer to any ideologies or nations as "evil". That simply does not jive with our modern, enhanced, sophisticated, nuanced understanding of the world. The word "evil" is apparently an antiquated term used by superstitious people who are barely two steps evolved from their cave dwelling ancestors. Now, people are just misunderstood. Nations are simply reacting rationally and logically to the actions of others or the potential demise of their governments by malcontent rebels who just don't get that freedom and democracy are so déclassé when the planet is about to meet its imminent demise.

Freedom and democracy have been tossed aside like yesterday's fashions. "Global warming" is now the cause du jour. In fact, it has surpassed an ideology based on once obscure science and reached the status of a religion, complete with prophets and prophecy of an apocalyptic revelation of the end times of the earth. That's how you know it has reached the status of a religion: prophets and apocalyptic prophesies.

How ironic is it that many of the same people who castigated "evangelicals" for just such beliefs as superstitious, uneducated, exclusionary bigots have themselves become evangelicals complete with all of the ills they prescribe to any other practitioner of religion and faith. If you deny the existence of "global warming", or, at least, disbelieve that it is either a primary result of mankind's activities or that the known historical climatic ages of the earth can be stopped by mankind, you are a blasphemer.

You are a sinner of the worst kind if you don't fully participate by buying energy efficient vehicles that allegedly don't produce carbon emissions or do other environmentally friendly activities such as recycling, composting or eating organic foods. There are certainly many reasons to do things that are "environmentally friendly", including not putting poisons into our own water or soil conserving farming, but these have much more immediate concerns. Such as not contributing to the death or birth defect rate of children. Or, insuring that the soil is capable of continuing to produce food well into the future to support the burgeoning human population and its continuing progress towards prosperity, away from starvation creating, population destroying famine.

The list could go on as to the reasons to do it, but "global warming" doesn't and shouldn't even hit the top ten list of reasons much less reached the status of religious dogma. While man can impact his environment and his ability to survive in that environment, the idea that man is responsible for or can control the global climate is obscene arrogance. Man is no more capable of that than an ant building its tunnels in the yard can stop the torrential down pours of rain.

The religion of "global warming" has elevated man to the status of a god. Man has become the embodiment of the Hindu god Vishnu: both the destroyer and the creator, the sinner and the savior. No one has yet to explain satisfactorily the illogical leap from eons of global climatic change without man's interference, due to the changes of the earth itself and its relation to the sun, to man becoming the arbiter of the coming global apocalypse.

Worse, this pseudo-religion has been elevated to a presidential platform by Sen. Obama with a nod by Sen. McCain. All the while Sen. Obama was exhorting the crowds that this is the generation that will stop the rising tides of the oceans, the junta in Myanmar were massacring non-violent monks and dumping their bodies in the jungle. In Zimbabwe, Mugabe lost the elections and refused to give up power. Instead, he is sending out thugs to murder his opposition and their families, butchering them and setting them on fire in their own houses or in the streets. In Sudan, ethnic cleansing continues, with tens of thousands dead and more displaced.

In Venezuela, Chavez continues to push his nation towards fascistic socialism, sending red shirts into the streets to beat up and shoot any opposition. He is barely held in check from declaring his life long dictatorship. Even that is still questionable since the real test is the next election. The Bolivians are in the same boat, while down in Colombia, Venezuelan interference and support for FARC narco-terrorists has come to full light. Here, in the United States, instead of supporting Colombian democracy and free trade, the Democrat led Congress continues to treat Colombia as if it was actually one of the worst dictatorships on the planet.

In Pakistan and places around the globe, an evil, oppressive ideology has taken shape and has inflicted truly horrific death and destruction on multitudes of "impure" and have directly attacked and killed citizens of this nation, both within its borders and abroad.

Sen. Obama continues to insist that he will attempt some sort of rapprochement with actual repressive regimes like Iran, Cuba and North Korea as if these regimes were worthy of remaining in place. All those who languish under the yoke of that repression are just so much detritus in the shadow of the great apocalyptic "global warming".

Once upon a time, the leaders and would be leaders of this nation would turn their eyes on the unfortunate unfree and state clearly our solidarity with their desire for freedom and their right to life and liberty. It was the continuation of our national imperative. While the world might not have trembled nor instant changes take place, those repressed were given the audacity of hope and nations understood where this nation stood: the leader of the free world, against tyranny and injustice, ready and willing to stand with those who would be free.

Now, there is barely a whisper from the White House. No candidate from the presidency has made it a central platform beyond McCain insisting that we continue to support the fledgling democracy of Iraq. Something that is considered a political albatross and risky to boot. With the last great foe of freedom defeated, the cause of freedom and democracy seems to lack any meaning. These remaining pesky, tyrannical states are too small to give time or thought to much less turn the great strength of our nation towards or even spare them a word beyond comforting, sonorous intonations of meeting with their oppressors to avoid conflict.

Of course, democracy and freedom are hard work. They are messy and occasionally ugly. They do not happen over night and tyrants do not fall without being shoved. Freedom and democracy require vigilant and jealous guarding which in turns requires strength and stamina. When global liberty and the prosperity that goes with it is at hand, we have turned away, unwilling to do the last difficult tasks and see the job done. We are leaving that to the others while we hurry on towards the next great cause; the pop religiosity of Global Warming.

Let the masses help themselves. We're too busy talking about the arctic ice caps that are or are not melting, the latest star to give lip service to the new faith by driving a Prius while living in 5,000 sq ft mansions, taking private jets to the next filming destination and threatening ex-communication on any industry that is not fast enough to genuflect to the ten thousand commandments from the Church of Global Warming.

Would it be blasphemy against the Church and the Chosen if one wondered what has been happening to all those political posters, signs, fliers and other such gee-gaws that go with political campaigns? Have they all been printed on recycled paper with environmentally soluble ink? Did they go to the recycling plant or end up in the land fill with the rest of the garbage?

We are talking about the same people who, mouthing such platitudes, still drive their individual cars to work; alone. Cars that, even if they get 35mpg, still emit carbon emissions. Particularly when they are idling away in the drive thru of their local fast food or speedy coffee chain getting their caffeine in cups that may or may not be made of recycled paper, but inevitably end up in a land fill just the same.

That's another way you can tell that Global Warming is a religion: it is already chock full of hypocrites and inveterate backsliders.

Where, in all of this, are the oppressed, imprisoned and murdered for political tyranny? If you were watching all of this, you would believe that they don't exist. Except, maybe in Guantanamo.

Yes, freedom and democracy are now passé. Calling destructive, mass murdering foes "evil" is gauche. The new cause demands sacrificing not one wit beyond what can be conveniently done in the home by turning off a light switch. Suggesting that condemning industry and technology that has largely been responsible for creating the ability to feed, clothe, shelter and educate the masses will result in worsening conditions for the vulnerable masses is blasphemy that is met with a modern version of Marie Antoinette's mythological reply: "let them eat cake".

There should be nothing more fearful to an American citizen than the slipping of freedom and democracy from its supreme position in our domestic and foreign politics to be replaced by a pseudo-religious cause.