Revolutionary Lunatics

Dr. Tom Woods weighs in on the real mindsets of those who cultishly chant about various causes like climate change. And his insights are a warning to those of us who value freedom.

When revolutionary lunatics demand this or that crazy thing, they’re rarely motivated by this or that crazy thing. They’re motivated by a much bigger goal and these lesser things are simply how they get there.

For instance:

The “climate change” people, who inanely blame every weather-related development on “climate change” (even when we have the charts showing that weather phenomenon X has actually been on the decline) and who demand radical changes to human life that will mean the decimation of the developing world and the impoverishment of the middle classes in the developed world, are not in fact motivated by climate change.

If they were, they’d say: we don’t care for the politics of Elon Musk, but his company is doing so much to help us reach our goal. So his good deeds in the private sector must in our calculus vastly outweigh the costs of what he does in government.

And yet, what a surprise: that isn’t what they say.

Matt Walsh is absolutely right [warning for delicate eyes: there’s a bad word in this paragraph]:

Elon Musk has done more than any single human on Earth to promote and propagate “green” alternatives. He has one of the largest electric vehicle companies on the planet. By the Left’s climate change logic, he has saved millions of lives and prevented untold number of hurricanes, tornadoes, and other catastrophes. If they took their climate change bullshit seriously at all, they would celebrate him as an environmental hero. They would happily overlook the MAGA stuff because he is — again, by their logic — doing more than anyone else to save the globe. But of course, they don’t actually believe in any of that climate stuff or care about it at all, which is why they’re in the process of trying to destroy one of the greenest companies in the world.

Can there be any doubt about this?  Tesla dealerships are under attack across the country.  More than 150 dealerships have suffered attacks on one sort or another.  Tesla vehicles are also in the bullseye of these people.  And not only the vehicles but also the people driving them.  A 61 year old woman who was driving a Tesla was punched repeatedly by a man because she was driving a Tesla.  Many of the people driving Tesla vehicles support the idea of a greener planet.

The attacks on Musk and Tesla are about controlling you.

Dr. Woods:

I was especially struck by this recent testimony by a former member of Extinction Rebellion, a lunatic group founded in the UK:

I was in Extinction Rebellion for several years. I produced over 60 videos for them and helped with several protests.

I can tell you directly: It was never about the climate. It was about controlling you.

Specifically, it was about mobilising 3.5% of the population into permanent revolutionary protest in order to trigger a Communist revolution. (Per Trotsky, Sharp, Hallam, Mao)

This was told to me directly by some of the leaders of the organisation. I tried to organise some programs to help businesses lower their carbon footprints without lowering profit margins or impacting the GDP, and I was told in no uncertain terms that *solutions* were counter to the goals of the movement and that I should stop.

It was then that I started to realise their true motives, and understand that perhaps I was being taken for a ride.

I learned that Communist countries have had some of the WORST environmental records in existence. What XR was proposing — degrowth, agitation, “decolonisation,” post-capitalism and every other agitprop buzzword — would effectively drop civilisation back to a pre-renewable era and force developing nations into a protracted industrial age, leading to ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE more carbon emissions than the incremental improvements found by market innovations.

Beijing, China is an excellent example of the incredibly bad environmental record.  In order to host the Olympics there, China had to shut down tons of factories so that the air quality would improve enough to do so.

Some years back, my wife and I visited there for several days.  The only time the sky was blue was immediately after a heavy rainfall.

ER Whistleblower:

After years of pushing against fossil fuels, they were suddenly vehemently opposed to Elon Musk and his EVs. It was mind boggling to witness.

I realised that Musk had singlehandedly done more to reduce emissions than the entire climate activist movement combined. And it’s not close. Mentioning this, I was met with bewilderment and anger.

It was very hard to come away from that experience with much sympathy for the activist left movement. At their best they were devoid of ideas and completely incapable of making meaningful technological or engineering innovations. At their worst, they were actively working against their own stated goals in order to maximise agitation and mobilise discontent toward a destructive revolutionary movement that would ultimately lead to measurably worse outcomes.

Applying Occam’s Razor, it became apparent to me that the goal is Communist revolution, and all these random causes — climate, gender relativism, immigration, BLM, defunding police, Islamisation etc etc etc weren’t about triumphing over injustices, but about agitating blocs of useful idiots into a perpetual state of protest in order to seize power and control in the name of Marxist Revolution.

The ”Summer of Love” of 2020 is a great example of this.  A man dies of a drug overdose while in police custody.  These blind idiots, aided and abetted by people in our own government, were stirred up to riot across the country.  A number of these lunatic revolutionaries were paid, of course.  Busses were provided to take people to where they would “protest.”  Buildings were burned to the ground and the media who were part of this revolution called this being “mostly peaceful.”

Now that Trump is back in office, the brown shirts have been released again.  The “spontaneous” Hands Off movement is being financed by various far left organizations.  They are trying to foment a civil war.

Some people call these lunatics creators and visionaries. They are wrong.  These people are destroyers.  They do not build solutions and, in fact, are incapable of doing so.  If one engages them in a factual debate about an issue, they will quickly devolve into using ad hominem attacks since they have no ability to refute the facts that are presented to them.

True change comes from the builders.  Trump and Musk are builders.  They build solutions to the problems that they see in front of them.  Thank God they believe in freedom and liberty.