Common are the Covert Misdirections

During a couple of recent speeches, President Joe Biden called MAGA citizens, “threats” and “clear and present dangers” as well as an “existential threat to America”. Overseas in, France, recently Biden claimed, "And the existential threat of climate change, which is just growing greater, we're working together to accelerate the global transition to net-zero. It is the existential threat to humanity, among — the only existential threat to humanity, including nuclear weapons, is if we do nothing on climate change.”

The “existential threat” moniker expands to whatever wishful issue is accommodating to gathering votes and partisan notoriety at the time. I highlight a very recent poll in Gallop News. The poll is divided into two segments, Economic Issues and Non-Economic. It would seem climate change is not an existential threat, at least to Americans. While it appears as an issue under the heading “Environment/Pollution/Climate change” the poll votes the matter gets are very minor.

While “The Government/Poor Leadership” leads in the Non-Economic section, in second place, and not far behind is “Immigration”. This would refer to the “Open Border” policy of the current administration.

There is a mergence of these two issues in a story covered by the Wall Street Journal. It also appears in the New York Post where the explanation and delineation are much shorter. The essence of the two articles, as the Post points out is, “The Biden administration quietly funneled $50 million in taxpayer funds earmarked for clean energy to two groups that oppose immigration enforcement.”

The money was secretly directed to two open border collaborators, the “New York Immigration Coalition” and “New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice”. Congress earmarked the money in the contentious Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) signed into law in August 2022. Despite the name of the legislation, it was an, albeit unwarranted, climate change measure.

In a Free Press article entitled We’re all Soviets Now recently-knighted, Sir Niall Ferguson, a renowned Scottish–American historian writes “Look at the most recent Gallup surveys of American opinion and one finds a similar disillusionment. The share of the public that has confidence in the Supreme Court, the banks, public schools, the presidency, large technology companies, and organized labor is somewhere between 25 percent and 27 percent. For newspapers, the criminal justice system, television news, big business, and Congress, it’s below 20 percent. For Congress, it’s 8 percent. Average confidence in major institutions is roughly half what it was in 1979”.

The governmental and institutional shenanigans described herein continue to aggrandize our disenchantment and cynicism with many mishandled or gratuitous matters and the persistent introduction of senseless, divisive issues.

Back to the climate arena, the graph below was created from collaborative research by the “University of Colorado, Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder”, “The World Data Center for Paleoclimatology”, and “The American Geological Society – Journal of Climate”. It differs in everything produced by the current government and the affected agencies of the United Nations – who, as a mutual group, are marketing themselves as communal saviors of the planet.