I find it ironic that the very groups that elected Obama in the first place will fanatically stymie his attempts to get anything done that is “shovel ready” towards his goal of renewable energy. It’s slogans, nothing more. As soon as there will be some difficulty with quick implementation, ready for short-spanned news consumers, he’ll change the goals into something more newsworthy. He doesn't really believe it matters anyway.
Also - these types of fights “fund” the left in the first place - they provide fodder for advertising campaigns for NGO’s, lawyers to “fight the power” - these are their cash in trade. It will be fun watching the semi-pragmatic democrats going to war with the loony left who fight all construction anywhere and everywhere.
There is that famous line that the best thing to do when your enemies are infighting is to do nothing and wait. I am garbling it exactly but you can understand the intent. The problem with letting them fight it out is that they don’t really have any concern for the general productivity or freedom of the society. They are blind drunk King Kongs stomping thru Manhattan leaving destruction in their wake.
As the collapse and stagnation of the Great Lake states into the Rustbelt shows, leftists work from an economic and political version of Milton’s “it's better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.” They would rather dominate in a crippled, poor and unproductive society than be equals in an effective, wealthy and productive society.
They will block projects like power transmission and power generation simply to force people to deal with them. They will invent reasons why people have to consult with them and give them veto power over new projects simply so they can have some power and position. They’ve positioned themselves to only gain by putting the breaks on development.
The situation is identical that of the mandarins versus everyone else in the final decades of failing Chinese dynasties. The mandarins mandated vast amounts of ritual and paperwork purely to justify their own positions. Unable to contribute materially, they instead created positions of power based on saying no more than saying yes. As a result, the governments of the dynasties grew progressively more paralyzed and incapable of action. Eventually they fell to internal revolt from the hinterlands or foreign invasion. The mandarin dead wood got cleared out and the process started all over again.
We are headed toward this revolt from inside and invasion from our south.
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