Robespierre leader of the reign of terror in the French revolution was himself a victim of that revolution.
Climate Depot have a great quote from an article lamenting: One big loser in this election? Climate policy.
You had billionaire Tom Steyer spending $57 million from his own pocket trying to convince voters to care about global warming. You had the League of Conservation Voters pouring in another $25 million into various races, more than it had in the previous two elections combined. All the while, some media outlets suggested that recent natural disasters — from Superstorm Sandy two years ago to the ongoing drought in the West — might push climate issues to the fore. Ultimately, none of it mattered much. Congress’ indifference to climate change will remain as solid as it’s ever been for the next two years — and maybe longer.’
So, neither money, nor the support of the most powerful elected politician (Obama), nor support of masses of the Dinosaur press, nor fearmongering with hyped up natural weather could sway the voters [like they used to] to vote for pro-delusional politicians, so who was the winner?
The real winner in my opinion will be shown to be the internet, and the real loser is the dinosaur media & dinosaur establishment that fed on, hyped up & ultimately stoked up the delusional fears of a small number of academics on climate.
Just over ten years ago, before the 2003 start of the crash the once “Mainstream” media, if this election had been run with a strong pro-Democrat media, it was a certain Democrat victory. But today, our views on politics are not dictated by a small elite group of liberal-leaning journalists. Journalists who saw their role in life as telling everyone else what to think. Today, our views come direct from other people on social media where in their shear scale, the main influence is no longer a few newspapers or TV channels, but a multitude of smaller sites and media commentators like me.
We have gone from a group of people called journalists, paid to look like they care, paid to be lobbied by every big campaign, paid to then pour their vile into the ears of the electorate, paid to say how everyone else acting for the highest altruistic motives were “lackys in the pay of big business”, now we have become a democracy of the people, ordinary people like me who don’t get paid by anyone, who really do care about our subject and who would tell you without fear or favour what we think.
In the great scheme of things, I know this site on its own has almost no effect. But when you take all the bloggers, all the social chit-chat all the “have you seen this” emails and add them together, that internet politics is now far far more important than the old dinosaur media it replaced. Indeed, the internet is not a single channel. There’s Twitter, facebook, email, text, blogs, RSS, … those are just the ones I use and I’m a luddite for social media.
The internet is the real winner here.
The irony of course, is that the internet was invented by left-leaning pro-climate-delusion academics who saw it as a way of increasing their power by spreading their view through sites like Wikipedia. Now their “Free-love”, Liberal baby has grown up and become decidedly right wing and very fed up with the Liberal delusionist non-science they hear from the dinosaur establishment.
Like, the US, in the UK, UKIP have found that whilst the dinosaur media, dinosaur academics and dinosaur public sector are about as hostile as it can be on their immigration policy. The internet has enabled the views of those actually affected by immigration to bring UKIP to the brink of real power in the next election. That could never have happened before 2003.
The dinosaur media have lost their power to stop people thinking for themselves.
It is a revolution, but like all revolutions, it isn’t just changing the balance of power within society. Because when the balance changes, the whole dynamics of politics changes and that brings social change. What that will be I can only guess, but that it will come is a foregone conclusion.
And so I will end with a sobering tale.
Maximilien de Robespierre was the head of the Committee of Public Safety in the French Revolution and sent to the guillotine numerous people including King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette. Robespierre was guillotined in 1794 after he gave a speech warning against the what he perceived to be government excesses and human rights violations.
From which I draw the conclusion and warning to the Republicans & anyone else claiming “victory” from these election: those who win out in the early phases of a revolution, may themselves end up as the loser as the revolution progresses.
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