Commentary

If you haven’t heard of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, I suggest you look into that group of hyper-wealthy people who are, in just a few words, bent on enslaving mankind.

The Forum has a video on its website that promotes what life might be like for the typical urban dweller around 2050. He or she will live in a sparsely appointed apartment and either bicycle or take public transportation to a job. In Orwell’s dystopian novel “Nineteen-Eighty-Four,” protagonist Winston Smith’s job is to rewrite archives to, presumably, align with Big Brother’s narrative. Maybe that’s the job the World Economic Forum is imagining in its video.

Sparsely appointed means no coffee maker, mixer or waffle iron. Should you need one, just tap a few keys and one will be delivered. While you’re at work, it’s possible some people will occupy your apartment for a meeting.

Want to jump an airplane to Hawaii or get away for a skiing vacation, you’d better be among the elite, not the writhing masses.

These thoughts all lead to what a certain Noo Yawk representative with bugged-out eyes is promoting, the New Green Deal. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s actions are just one part of a plan being forced on a free society by people you might see at the World Economic Forum meetings.

They’re trying to return modern society to the Nineteenth Century by insisting on abandonment of fossil fuels.

It’s absurd.

A note from the recent devastation of Hurricane Ian, across the Florida peninsula and up the Eastern Seaboard. Who came in afterward? People with big equipment powered by diesel, chainsaws that run on gasoline, trucks and generators that reliably do their work with petroleum fuels.

Petroleum has an efficient distribution system that works, and it’s powerful and it’s portable. AOC and all the Green New Deal zealots are urging that this system, which is crucial to a healthy economy, be scrapped.

It is absurd to suggest that heavy equipment, wheat combines, trac-hoes, trains, aircraft and other modes of moving people and commodities can be converted to electric motors.

Imagine a farmer hurrying to beat a thunderstorm to his fields who has to stop to recharge the tractor or combine. I see him sitting with the machine plugged in while hail batters his unharvested crops.

What’s happening in America is people who have benefited from a capitalistic system are now thinking that it’s unfair that wealth isn’t evenly distributed, and that socialist and communistic theories make more sense. They think that with such a shift in governmental policies that there will be equality in society AND we’ll still have money, freedom to travel and do things, speak and act like the framers of the Constitution made possible through the U.S. Constitution.

We urge voters during these Mid-Term Elections, to be thoughtful and vote for candidates who reject socialism and embrace liberty and freedom. Socialism is a nightmare that has been put on people through the years and we should attend to the lessons of history so as not to repeat those mistakes.