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Like pretty much every other social ill we see emerging around us – at least here in the U.S. – this phenomenon can be traced back to roots in the corrupting effects of political correctness on higher education, which at this point seems almost irretrievably broken.

So-called “graduates” who are ignorant of science, mathematics, ethics and basic logic are easily duped into following debunked fads like Gore’s “climate crisis”. This effect is enhanced when the public (and private) school curriculum is effectively ruled by politically correct thugs and useful idiots who – instead of teaching the subjects they’ve been hired to teach – relentlessly browbeat their students, as well as any enlightened faculty members, into supporting junk science, “social justice”, multiculturalism and their attendant, culturally suicidal policies.

In a sane world Gore would be answering to federal charges of sedition, as he is actively and blatantly advocating the breakdown of national security through incitement to jeopardizing the availability of energy to American businesses and American citizens. His incitement is no different from communist Raila Odinga’s incitement to “protest” his loss in the Kenya election last year (it will come as no surprise that this communist “Agent for CHANGE” was actively supported by Barack Obama – at U.S. taxpayers’ expense, of course).

Like all of the policies that emanate from the left’s Bizarro-world rationale, Gore’s incitement to domestic terrorism will have its worst effects on the poor. This has already been clearly demonstrated by the decreasing availability of food staples following junk-science-driven mandates to produce more Ethanol “biofuel”. It will continue to be demonstrated via the economy-destroying effects such hysterical policies will have in Asia, the EU and, soon, America, as so-called “cap-and-trade” scams siphon off trillions of dollars in GDP to be redistributed as governmental planners see fit. This is Obama’s “spreading the wealth around”, on a global scale.

Gore’s abundantly aware of the net negative effect all of this will have on the masses, of course. At this point any rational person is aware of it as well. But like the rest of his leftist cronies, Gore’s depending on it. This latest ploy is no different from Gore’s support for Clinton’s hypertaxation and expansion of CRA legislation in the 90s.

Just as FDR’s socialist New Deal policies prolonged the Great Depression, Clinton’s and Gore’s socialist hypertaxation stalled recovery from the late 80s’ recession, and would have continued to do so if the Republican Congress hadn’t reduced the capital gains tax in 1997 (resulting in an economic boom for which Clinton now takes the credit).

Mandating expansion of suicidal lending policies was guaranteed to eventually cause millions of low- and middle-class borrowers to lose their homes, destroying the credit system on which healthy capitalism depends in the process. Brilliant, actually.

But who and what are the angry masses taught to blame, thanks to the complicity of mainstream media and the utter corruption of academia? The Market. Wall Street “greed”. Predatory lenders. Capitalism. Conservatism. Anything but the real cause: flawed socialist policies driven by flawed socialist ideology.

Gore, the policies he supports, the criminal hypocrisy he gets away with, and the actions of his mindless minions are all just a growing symptom of an increasingly stupid society. That stupidity is made possible – actively sought, in fact, by “reformers” like Obama’s mentor and political benefactor Bill Ayers – via today’s utterly broken, culture-destroying system of education.

We continue to ignore that at our peril.