Morning Reads – Thursday, June 27, 2019

So when progressive or left-liberal court rulings throw out decades (centuries?) of precedent it is progress but when conservative court rulings do the same it is calamitous? Explain.

As for the “solr panels in southwest Georgia!” nonsense folks should understand … conservative voters aren’t against renewable energy. Being against new technology – which is all renewable energy is … and some of it isn’t even new as windmills and dams have been around for ages and even solar panels are decades old – well no. If that were the case you wouldn’t see conservative folks ridin’ those newfangled horseless carriages and using telephones instead of the old reliable telegraphs and tradin’ in the old victrolas and RCA phonographs for the moving picture boxes. What conservative voters are against is using renewable energy as an excuse to implement a global command economy. And thanks to AOC’s green new deal – and its universally enthusiastic embrace by the mainstream media and other progressive entities – there isn’t even any plausible deniability anymore.

That solar energy plant is in southwest Georgia because the decades-long debacle that is the Georgia Power “regulated monopoly” triggered a backlash that caused the creation of a MARKET-BASED alternative energy policy that was supported by non other than former Tea Party star Debbie Dooley (among other conservatives). Were Democrats and their allies willing to adopt a similar approach nationwide not only would they encounter very little resistance but they’d find a ton of support. The problem is that market-based alternative energy plans isn’t what they want. Their ideology is “capitalism destroys the environment so socialism is needed to save it”. Exhibit A here (and an example of why Representative Ilhan Omar recently attacked our own government in order to defend the Venezuelan dictatorship: https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/5574 ).

Stop wedding renewable energy to left-liberal economic, social and foreign policy and even the folks in Texas – or at least the ones employed in technology and engineering instead of oil and gas – will get behind it. Keep doing so and even a lot of the folks who hate what fracking, drilling and spills do to the land, air and drinking water are going to stay away.