The Unbearable Lightness Of The Great Reset
I was drawn to some remarks by Democrat Sen John Hickenlooper on CNN discussing the $369 billion BBB-lite bill: It’s the beginning. It’s the beginning of a long, forced march that we’re going to have to all work together on. But it allows us to imagine a successful outcome. I mean, the modelers are telling us that they think it will reduce greenhouse gases — greenhouse emissions by 40% by 2030. That’s 80% of what President Biden committed to during his campaign, and everyone thought that, oh, you’ll never get there. Well, now, all of a sudden –.” In many ways, these remarks are a strange mixed metaphor. They allude to Mao Zhedong's Long March, the first step in his rise to power, which consisted of an extended retreat by Communist forces in 1934-35. The bitter struggles of the Long March, which was completed by only about one-tenth of the force that left Jiangxi (about eight thousand of some hundred thousand), would come to represent a significant episode in the history ...