THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume IX, Issue # 205, October 31, 2007
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
CONFRONTING LIBERALISM'S ELUSIVE CAUSES & EFFECTS
By Christopher G. Adamo
POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM & LEFTWING LIBERALISM: CAN THE U.S.A., WITHOUT REAPING DIRE
CONSEQUENCES, CONTINUE TO EMBRACE NAIVE & UNREALISTIC IDEOLOGIES & IMPLEMENT THE PUBLIC POLICIES &
PROGRAMS WHICH THESE IDEOLOGIES ADVOCATE & FOR WHICH THEY PROVIDE THEORETICAL JUSTIFICATION --
IDEOLOGICALLY DRIVEN FORCES THAT ARE AT PLAY & THAT THREATEN TO SEVERELY & GENERALLY DEGRADE THE
QUALITY OF LIFE IN AMERICA
FULL STORY:
The lights came on across Kansas as the sun set on the evening of October 18, 2007, which is, in the minds of most people,
just as it should be. It might therefore be easy to conclude that the decision that day of the Kansas Department of Health
and Environment to refuse a construction permit for a new coal-fired electric power plant was a universally good one,
spawning only happiness and positives for everyone, excepting, of course, those greedy industrialists who wanted to
build the plant.
Health and Environment Secretary Roderick Bremby explained that the verdict was based on the “potential for harm to our
health and the environment” on the basis that such a project would contribute to “climate change,” which is the latest code
phrase for “global warming.”
Over the years, the people of Kansas, as well as the rest of the country, have come to expect that, when they flip the light
switch, the darkness flees. When they open the faucet, water comes out. And if, on occasion, such things do not occur as
expected, a quick call to the public utilities will fix everything in short order. This is still the case in Kansas. So, with each
passing day, the notion is bolstered that the judgment of the state government was entirely sound.
Or was it? Can the nation continue to embrace naive and unrealistic ideologies without reaping dire consequences? Forces
are in play that threaten to severely and generally degrade the quality of life in America. And these forces, though not as
overtly ominous as a crazed clan of turban clad terrorists plotting against America in some distant cave, are no less a
danger to the future of the country.
Moreover, often as not, they wreak their havoc on a more subtle and scattered basis, and are thus not so immediately
obvious as an airliner being flown into a building. Thus, despite the magnitude of the danger they pose, little is done in
advance to stop them before their actions bring about the inevitable calamity.
To the people of Kansas, the power grid is fine, since no shortages have yet occurred. Furthermore, with the decision to
put environmental consciousness ahead of the mercenary interests of those nasty power companies, Kansans can
applaud themselves for being so environmentally aware and friendly. Surely they have done their part to save the planet.
The harsh reality however, is that those who consider the Kansas Department of Health and Environment decision to be a
worthy one, and who have determined to ignore the looming fallout from such a decision, are merely playing the same
game that the American Left has played with America’s well-being on numerous fronts, and from which America has, time
and again, reaped horrendous consequences.
Consider, in the same light, some other Americans whose lives during the past few weeks have not been nearly so orderly
and blissfully uneventful. The horrors visited upon the people of Southern California were, in large part, preventable.
Yet, contrary to time-honored wisdom and understanding of the care of forested areas, environmentalist extremists have
been able to thwart efforts to remove dead wood from the forest floors or to thin the trees in a manner that would minimize
the potential for such devastating fires.
Like the blissfully ignorant people of Kansas, most Californians supported these misbegotten endeavors at negating
man’s impact on the environment. And, up until last week, they could confidently presume their allegiances to be for
the common good.
However, in the wake of the glaring evidence to the contrary, those who are most guilty of contriving the circumstances
responsible for the disaster have, in a sense, telegraphed their awareness of guilt.
By screaming the loudest that the fault lies with “global warming,” “The War in Iraq,” or some such nonsense, they show
the world that they are terrified by the possibility that they might be recognized as the real culprits. The louder they
scream and point fingers in any other direction, the more they hope to deflect notice from the fact that the ultimate guilt
lies with them. And, in this effort, they may succeed.
As long as Liberal programs can be separated from their consistently disastrous consequences by a sufficient period of
time, the perpetrators stand a chance of pointing fingers of accusation at one straw dog or another, thereby escaping
culpability for the disasters they helped create.
Thus the abject failures of America's “education” system are blamed not on the “politically correct” agenda of the
ultra-Liberal National Education Association, but on “insufficient funding.” In New Orleans, all of the misery and
needless suffering experienced by the people, now bundled in discussion under the heading of “Katrina,” resulted not
from the corrupt Democratic Party political machine that misused funds, ignoring the danger and failing to prepare for it,
but from the incompetence of President Bush and FEMA.
Of course, the most stunning example in recent memory, September 11, 2007, is similarly explained away in any manner
possible, other than that Bill Clinton and the “girls” (Hillary, Madeleine Albright, Janet Reno, and Jamie Gorelick) chose
to play “politically correct” games with national security, thus leaving the nation vulnerable.
Likewise, on the day that Kansas begins experiencing “brownouts,” power outages, and the exorbitant costs of shoring
up its energy needs by purchasing emergency supplies of electricity from other utilities, those most responsible for the
crisis will be the noisiest complainants, ascribing guilt to every corporate interest and individual they can target, but
never acknowledging their own complicity.
Nevertheless, until that day arrives, Secretary Bremby and Governor Kathleen Sebelius (a Democrat, of course) can be
expected to loudly extol the virtues of their sensitivity and concern for mother earth.
Not every wrongheaded decision will immediately result in an obvious “day of reckoning,” with such horrific,
recognizable consequences awakening America with the mesmerizing impact of skyscrapers imploding on thousands of
terrified people, or the nightmarish scene of hillsides and entire neighborhoods ablaze. But, just as surely, in every
situation where Liberal ideologues are allowed to set the stage, with total disregard for reality, sooner or later that day will
come.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, & Other Leftists
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
Science, Ethics, & Human Health:
Human Health & Public Policy
American Politics & Political Competition:
Elections, PACs, & Political Parties
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
Liberalism Versus Conservatism in American Politics
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY & POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES:
COMPETING SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Conservatism
Traditional Conservatism: Questions & Answers
Conservatism: Attitudes, Types, & Present Status
Constitutional Conservatism: American & British
Liberalism
Classical Liberalism: Intellectual Foundations
Classical Liberalism: Conservative Liberalism
Manchester Liberalism & Social Darwinism
Modern Social "Liberalism": Statist "Liberalism"
Radical & Totalitarian Ideologies
Radicalism, Utopianism, & Totalitarianism
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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