In recent weeks, there have been news reports about surveys showing record low levels of happiness and high levels of depression and pessimism among Americans. Those reports indicate that progressives’ plan for America is working well. They don’t want us to be happy.
Woke progressives remind me of hyperconscious moms constantly hovering over their kids, micromanaging their lives and taking away all sorts of things from their kids on the grounds that “that’s not good for you” even when it really isn’t bad for them.
Another well-loved consumer product that progressive elites believe isn’t good for us is the gasoline-powered automobile. The Environmental Protection Agency is trying to force Americans to buy electric vehicles by raising to unattainable levels the fuel efficiency standards on American-sold cars. But many Americans are happy with their gasoline-powered autos. They like the longer driving range on a tank of gas and the quicker time to refill instead of recharge. They also like not being vulnerable to electricity brownouts/blackouts that could render their vehicles temporarily unusable. They also like the idea of not being dependent on minerals mined by slave labor in China and other foreign countries.
Americans like relatively cheap, reliable energy and all the economic wealth that such energy has generated, yet progressives insist on subsidizing more expensive alternative and intermittent sources of energy. That callously ignores the fact that making Americans pay artificially high prices for electric power leaves them less able to afford other products. Indeed, progressive policies have kept us poorer than we need to be. But to the progressives, too much prosperity is a bad thing and belt-tightening is good.
According to woke progressives, the reason we allegedly need to curb our use of gas stoves, gasoline-powered cars, and relatively cheap energy is the threat of climate catastrophe posed by carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels.
The animus against meat and dairy is just plain weird. We are mammals, our babies are nourished with the food most natural to our species, namely milk. (And who doesn’t love a good ice cream cone on a summer day?) As for meat, it’s more than a cultural fixture; it’s tied up in our zoological taxonomy: We are predators—our eyes are located in the front of our heads, as is the case for carnivores and predators, and not on the side as is the case with herbivores. And yet the woke elite tell us that what’s good for us is bad for us. Actually, there’s an underlying message here: Human life itself (at least, life beyond limits deemed acceptable by the misanthropic neo-Malthusian woke mob) is bad—a point that radical greens make explicit when they characterize humans as “vermin,” “a cancer,” “a plague,” etc.
The existential question about this woke movement that seeks to lessen Americans’ prosperity, freedom, and fertility is: When are the millions of people who currently vote for such leaders going to wake up to the lies they’ve been told about how we’ve had it too good? When will they awake to the self-defeating absurdity of believing that virtue consists of the decidedly un-American agenda of having an “enlightened” government chip away at our God-given rights of life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness? What a great day it will be when the American people wake up from the mass hypnosis that has them believing the political ideologies that say we need less of the things that we like and that have enriched our lives—everything from gas stoves to liberty to children.
The Bible says, “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20). And woe unto them who fall under the spell of those who turn reality upside down. It’s no sin to enjoy life, folks.