Maggie's Farm

The climate scare is certainly not 'the biggest scam in history'. Not by scale or finance.

Leftists - and far too many rightists too - fail to recognize the core problem with the argument that Trump just doomed the world. I'd expect the left to make this blunder because of what will become obvious in a moment, but one recoils at the simple, blundering, ostensible right for more completely missing it.

That problem is that the Paris Accord and others like it represent moral capitulation. In other words, vacating Paris admits we're too amoral to, in leftist terms, do the right thing, where doing the right thing primarily means admitting we're incapable of doing it ourselves.

Paris represented an admission we're ideally subjects of a higher principle, a principle deployed by force. We're depraved enough we cannot do that good thing ourselves, over here, in our ohm land, by ourselves. We need Paris. Or Koyoto. Or Obama.

The right, being dumb and codependent, doesn't see this at all. The right sees the Paris exit only as a thumb in the left's eye with a side helping of some feckless nod to 'freedom'.

Why is this so? Because the right is utterly blinded to the ways, means, and motives behind scores of principally identical systems it has itself created and now supports in perpetuity.

Statist rightists love force. Just not this particular force, as impotent as it was.