Survey Scrutiny
A Wall Street-funded survey recently conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago shows that the characteristics and attributes such as
Patriotism;
Religious Faith;
Having children; and,
Community Involvement,
have declined significantly since 1998, but the importance of money has grown. While Republicans lead handily in the top three, community involvement is led slightly by Democrats while money seems just as critical to both. I believe the reason for the significant divide in the values of patriotism, religion, and children stems largely from an ideological partition that has widened drastically in the past few years. A breakdown of this survey, politically, is as follows:
Much of the formation of that partition can be explained by a quote from Henry David Thoreau, an American naturalist, and philosopher. From the United States Magazine and Democratic Review in 1837, he said, “The government that governs best governs least.” Therein lays a substantial philosophical and idealized variance between liberal progressives and conservatives. The left has gone farther left in walking towards authoritarian government and socialism, while conservatives agree with Thoreau’s guiding assessment.
This ideological viewpoint is compelling in the varied outlooks on anthropogenic climate change. Political progressives and their allies may fully believe, partially believe, or not believe at all in the hypothesis, but they all assume that implanting the alarm into the public while claiming they have the solitary and exclusive cure, keeps them in power.
Anthropogenic climate change allows for authoritarian control over the citizenry through mandates, environmental policies, and repressive control of natural and industrial resources, and all of it is done under the shelter and pretense of protection - both the environment and their constituency.
In socialism, religious faith is discouraged or denigrated. There should be no rival competing with the government or, in the case of climate change, Mother Nature or namely, Mother Gaia. My article, “The Christian Climate Thorn” lays out that theistic acknowledgment by the climate community and their desire to gather the flock into their fantasized fold.
Naturally, many in the advocate climate change community are made fearful of having children under the guise of an impending environmental apocalypse - even though a stagnation in population growth will be a great detriment as people age and there is no one to take their place or participate in the current strategized “Ponzi” design of social security. The nuclear family is already in very serious trouble.
While there are many other issues involved in the decline of patriotism, religion, and children, the marketing of anthropogenic climate change is certainly one of them. For your furtherance, I link the full survey report as well as an article on it from The Week.
