Ralph K. Ginorio-137-Keep Right 12/03/21: This Is No Accident

As we approach a Christmas Season more rife with inflation than any time since the Carter Administration and more rife with shortages of every commodity greater than at any time since World War II, we must remember that this is no accident. Purposefully, Biden's policies restricting the fuel and labor supply while expanding the money supply have produced both inflation and scarcity.

Environmentalists see a deteriorating U. S. Dollar and increasingly scarce resources as a necessary step towards alleviating "Man-Made Climate Change". For Climate Activists, their biggest problem is us; our everyday American expectations 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, our attempts to heat and cool our homes and businesses year-round to a roughly standard temperature of 70 Fahrenheit 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.

In fact, 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 bear arms and to refuse medical treatments, as being socially-destructive selfishness.

Make no mistake. To those who fly in private jets to Global Climate Summits, 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, 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. To these true believers, our freedoms and living-standard must be sacrificed for what they deem to be economic justice and global survival.

We non-elite Americans can be seen as latter-day Serfs, and Serfs need not aspire to either political influence or lives of luxury. Like many Europeans, whose needs are provided for by their Socialist Welfare States even as their choices are restricted, Americans could be compelled for their own good to lead healthier and happier 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'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