GOP Senator Compares Climate Change Activists To Stalin
Source: Huffington Post
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who once accused those fighting climate change of environmental jihad, has now compared such people, including his Democratic opponent Russ Feingold and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), to Joseph Stalin and Hugo Chávez.
Speaking Tuesday on WRJN 1400 radio in Wisconsin, the longtime climate-change denier said liberals and progressives, like socialists and communists, want to control everything.
The whole climate change debate gives ― and there are all kinds of quotes from adherents of and promoters of climate change ― the reason theyre doing it is its such a great opportunity to control, you know, pretty much, government, and control your lives, he said. I mean, again, I dont know why they want to do it. Theres an arrogance of power there that theyre utopians, that they really think they can create heaven on Earth, and where its failed in the past, those people like Stalin and Chavez and the Castros, the nut cases in North Korea ― by the way, if you want equal results, go to North Korea, you have equal misery.
The arrogance of liberal progressives, he added, is that theyre just a lot smarter and better angels than the Stalins and the Chavezes and the Castros of the world, and if we give them all the control, and they control your life, theyre going to do a great job of it. Well, it just isnt true.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ron-johnson-climate-change-stalin_us_57a240fee4b0104052a0fb1c
Just in case you need a reminder that Trump is hardly the only Republican who is anti-science.
bucolic_frolic
(43,614 posts)Another Obstructionist on everything that makes sense to anyone
AllyCat
(16,293 posts)GOP is running a fake Dem against him in the primary. Feingold will beat this tool if he can get through this primary!
Javaman
(62,546 posts)I'm always amused by nuts who feel it's better to be a "know-it-all" than be correct.
ck4829
(35,102 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,174 posts)the correct choice.
Just like repuke spending.
downeastdaniel
(497 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)Get it right this time. You have three of them. This douche Johnson, that Kochsucker Walker and the Uncle Ruckas Sheriff.
Roy Rolling
(6,953 posts)Other than the murdering of millions of his own citizens they are exactly the same.
ck4829
(35,102 posts)Cults of personality, because we see huge paintings and statues of climate scientists on every street corner
Purges, 'revisionists' who have different opinions about climate change are edited out of history books and photographs
Gulags and prisons, all those people who question global warming are dropped off in Siberian work camps
There's got to be a similarity somewhere, right?
Botany
(70,700 posts).... CO2 has more mass and can hold more energy (heat). The science is done
on this stuff.
http://www.convertunits.com/molarmass/Carbon+Dioxide
http://www.convertunits.com/molarmass/O2
Yallow
(1,926 posts)Even two years ago, some trees didn't burn.
Great!
TomCADem
(17,391 posts)...with a $1 million ad buy. Coincidence?
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