Partisan media and politicos parroted the accusation, and the Biden campaign doubled down.
For the sake of fairness and accuracy, it’s worth reviewing the situations in which the Biden administration, Democrats, and their allies have fought would-be dictators and defended freedom, democracy, and diversity of viewpoints in recent years. . ) Like what:
*Antifa’s relentless anger, riots, riots, and legal warfare against President Trump for “collusion with Russia,” since his election and inauguration and after his term in office.
* Closures of schools, parks and restaurants, “social distancing” and “mask warnings,” “safe and effective” vaccine mandates with approved vaccines with a minimum of “emergency use authorizations” and endless misrepresentations and censures by Biden and Democratic officials. governors and “journalists” – on the call for Covid prevention.
Open our southern border to millions of “undocumented non-citizens,” mostly Latin Americans, but also to Chinese agents, drug traffickers, sex traffickers, terrorists, and disease carriers.
* Billions in “student debt forgiveness,” forcing taxpayers to repay huge loans to graduates struggling to land six-figure jobs despite having prestigious degrees in gender studies or networking.
* Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and Environment Social Governance (ESG) programs, from K-12, college to law school, and into government and corporate arenas – to ensure that every component of the society reflects racial, ethnic, and gender proportionality, but never viewpoint or political diversity.
These and many other authoritarian movements have had a negative effect on American society, its freedoms, its health, and its prosperity. Worse, many progressives and leftists hope to pave the way for obedience to more dictatorial mandates enacted on the call to save our planet from the supposed cataclysms inflicted by fossil-fuel-induced climate change.
Few will question the fact that President Biden has ordered federal workers to use public transportation, ride bikes or rent electric cars for business trips, and hold virtual or in-person meetings.
In fact, these regulations may not apply to personal jet globetrotters like climate czar John Kerry, and electric cars commonly move emissions from their tailpipes to fauncooked countries where toxic pollutants and children’s hard work accompany the extraction and processing of raw materials to make EV batteries. At least some of the federal personnel will now suffer from the inconveniences imposed on us commoners.
However, the Biden team’s endless torrent of dictatorial executive orders, regulatory mandates, and twisted legal reinterpretations on force generation, vehicles, appliances, agriculture, housing, and other issues are already impacting our industries, our livelihoods, and our basic rights and freedoms. .
These dictates aim to force us to convert everything we have lately run on coal, gasoline, diesel or vegetable fuel into electric models. The U. S. will soon need 3 to 4 times more electric power than it needs, and even more to force the AI revolution. .
But the same bureaucrats are shutting down coal, gas, nuclear, and hydroelectric generators – ensuring that electricity will be in short supply, generated primarily by weather-dependent wind turbines and solar panels, backed up by massive grid-scale battery systems, and thus unavailable or unaffordable during the coldest and hottest days, when electric heat or air conditioning becomes a matter of life or death.
In fact, just the batteries needed to safeguard the nation’s electric power would cost up to $290 trillion (13 times the GDP of the U. S. )!in the U. S. in 2021)! Add to that the prices of wind, solar, and transmission power, and the juice needed to run your all-electric system. Home, business, hospital, school, or transportation will likely charge 30 to 40 cents per kilowatt hour, 12 to 15 cents on average. Americans are paying now.
It’s a prescription for repeated blackouts, economic disaster – and unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats micromanaging every aspect of our lives: what size home we can have; how warm or cool we can keep it; what cars we can drive and how far, or whether we too will be forced to walk, bike or take a bus; how many trips we can take in jetliners, in our lifetime; what foods we can eat (hint: not beef); maybe even how many new clothing items we will be “allowed” to purchase each year!
The ecological effects will be equally horrific and widespread in the United States and abroad.
Wind and solar installations, transmission lines, and massive battery complexes would encompass millions of acres of habitat and now-picturesque farmland. A single proposed solar installation in Virginia would involve 3,000 acres of panels on 21,000 acres (more than Washington’s domain). DC). It’s just one of dozens of Virginia solar projects, in addition to onshore and offshore wind projects.
The installations “will power millions of homes,” supporters insist. Perhaps – but only when the wind is blowing and sun is shining at optimal intensities … maybe 15-30% of the year in northern latitudes, considering winter snow and sunlight, clouds, nighttime, zero wind and other factors.
Many local citizens and other citizens don’t need those large facilities in their backyards; destruction of habitats and landscapes, killing of birds and bats, fitness problems and related disturbances and electricity prices; or become energy colonies for progressive urban centers. They have already blocked more than 500 wind and solar projects, for environmental and other reasons.
That’s why Michigan, California, New York, and Illinois have already enacted laws that give state bureaucrats land-use power: the ability to exert eminent domain and other forces on local governments that need to slow down or prevent huge, heavily subsidized commercial wind power. turbines, solar power, transmission lines, and other “green” projects. Most likely, others will continue (depriving rural communities of their rights, the value of their assets, and their autonomy) to serve the interests of the corporations that fund Democratic policies.
Most likely, the federal “deep state” will seek similar legislative authority, or simply assert its authority, to enforce President Biden’s national program on carbon-neutral “renewable energy. “
The UN’s and Biden’s “30×30” plans to “conserve” (prohibit development) 30% of the land and water of the United States and the world until 2030 will massively accumulate all those effects and usurpations of power. Boundaries up to 30×30, wilderness areas, parks, refuges and other movements will be evolved and desecrated to the bottom with wind, solar, transmission lines, mining, biofuels and other “green energy” projects.
Meanwhile, international climate alarmists and bureaucrats are telling African and other impoverished nations how much they will be “permitted” to develop and improve their health and living standards – using only “sustainable, renewable” wind and solar power. It’s dictatorial colonialism at its worst.
And in the midst of all this, China, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and other emerging countries burn more coal, oil, and fuel (and emit more greenhouse fuels) than the most evolved countries combined. This means that the economic suicide of the United States and the European Union on the altar of climate will not make the slightest difference.
What could a dictator Trump simply do? Reverse or rescind those dictatorial decrees. Stop accelerating wind and solar projects. End bogus environmental justice, DEI, and ESG programs. Return America to power, independence, and affordable power. Build the wall and immigration. Above all, respect the law and the Constitution. What a revolutionary, what a tyrannical. . . and refreshing. . . !
Paul Driessen is a senior policy advisor to the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org) and author of books and articles on energy, climate, environmental, and human rights issues.