1970s Leftist: The earth’s temperature is dropping and we’re all going to freeze to death!
1970s Sucker: Oh my God! Well, what should we do?
1970s Leftist: Don’t worry! More regulation, more taxation, and more government will take care of it!
1970s Sucker: OK! Let’s do it!
(fast forward 10 years)
1980s Sucker: Hey, whatever happened to that global cooling thing?
1980s Leftist: Never mind that now! Don’t you know that there’s a famine coming that’s going to kill a billion people?!?
1980s Sucker: What?!? Oh my God! Well, what should we do?
1980s Leftist: Don’t worry! More regulation, more taxation, and more government will take care of it!
1980s Sucker: OK! Let’s do it!
(fast forward 10 years)
1990s Sucker: Hey, whatever happened to that global famine thing?
1990s Leftist: Never mind that now! Don’t you know that there’s a hole in the ozone layer that’s going to give you cancer and burn your face off?!?
1990s Sucker: What?!? Oh my God! Well, what should we do?
1990s Leftist: Don’t worry! More regulation, more taxation, and more government will take care of it!
1990s Sucker: OK! Let’s do it!
(fast forward 10 years)
Present-Day Sucker: Hey, whatever happened to that ozone hole thing?
Present-Day Leftist: Never mind that now! Don’t you know that the earth is heating up and we’re all going to drown with the polar bears?!?
Present-Day Sucker: Now wait a minute…a little while ago, you said that the earth was gonna freeze. What gives?
Present-Day Leftist: How DARE you question me? I bet you don’t believe the Holocaust happened either, do you, you racist, zealot Nazi?!?!?
Present-Day Sucker: No, I just….
Present-Day Leftist: Silence! The Great and Terrible Gore has spoken!
Used to be that we’d have at least a century or two between Doomsday scenarios – now we get a new one every decade.
What a pathetic, frightened little species we are.
