Next time you hear any leftist spout that Donald Trump poses an existential threat to America, share the recent existence-threatening tripe from presidential candidate manqué John Kerry.
At a recent World Economic Forum climate session, Kerry fretted about the deleterious effect of the accessibility of online “misinformation” on his global climate agenda:
Democracies around the world now are struggling in the absence of [a] sort of truth arbiter. … There’s no one who defines what facts really are.
Truth-arbiter Kerry went on to proclaim FACTS. Here’s just one:
The facts are that 85 percent of the money from the Inflation Reduction Act [IRA] has gone to red states.
That’s weird because on September 25, 2024, the leftist rag Mother Jones reported that “The seven swing states that will decide the upcoming election have received nearly half of the torrent of clean energy manufacturing dollars unleashed” by the IRA “amid stuttering Democratic efforts to translate new factory jobs into political support.”
Of the “nearly $150 billion … $63 billion, or nearly half, will flow to just seven states—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—that form the battleground fought over by Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.”
Seems like there may be some leftist misinformation spreading online either from John Kerry or Mother Jones.
Kerry argues that the transition to renewable sources of energy “is made difficult by ignorance” of “people who don’t want to look at the facts.”
In keeping with their commitment to truthiness and Newspeak, leftist opinions are now “facts,” and those who dissent are ignorant fact-deniers–close relatives to deplorables.
Every John Kerry-affirmed opinion and policy proposal is just incontrovertible “science.” Kerry proclaimed:
This [the green energy agenda] is driven by science. It’s driven by physics. … It’s based on what Mother Nature is telling us every single day.
Kerry’s genuflection to Mother Nature is odd coming from a card-carrying member of the political party that says some women have penises and some men menstruate and “chestfeed” infants.
Not to worry, Kerry has some solutions to resistance to Democrat policies on rapidly transitioning to an all-green economy, the first of which is to “strip away the fearmongering that’s taking place.”
Who has been terrorizing school children for decades with one cataclysmic environmental prophecy after another?
Whose heroine is Greta Thunberg, an unwell young woman with leftist parents who, as a teen, began publicly weeping and gnashing her teeth about the end of the world like some weird pseudo-religious fanatic?
In February 2023, Ken Braun, senior investigative researcher for the Capital Research Center exposed the manifold failed prophecies of Chicken Little Al Gore, which include prophecies about Glacier National Park, the snows of Kilimanjaro, and a 20-foot sea level increase.
In 2009, Gore also predicted that there was “a 75% chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during some of the summer months, could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years.”
And who can forget the infamous prediction by soothsayer Alexandria Ocasio Cortez who in 2019 announced the world will end in 2031.
But Kerry and his climate-freakout collaborators still have a problem: What to do about those pesky online fact-deniers?
An audience member asked Kerry to talk about the “role of climate disinformation on the solutions in the marketplace.” And here Kerry began to expose his antipathy for foundational American principles:
The dislike of and anguish over social media is just growing, and growing, and growing. It’s part of our problem, particularly in democracies, in terms of building consensus around any issue. It’s really hard to govern today. The referees we used to have to determine what is a fact and what isn’t a fact have kind of been eviscerated. … And people … self-select where they go for their news, for their information.
It is not the freedom of Americans to choose—i.e., “self-select”—where they go for news that makes consensus-building difficult. It is the radical—even anarchical—nature of “progressivism” that makes consensus difficult.
It is impossible to build consensus when we have a Democrat Party that uses misinformation to promote pernicious ideas on sex, “gender,” and marriage that destroy individual lives, families, and society; that eviscerates constitutional principles, protections, and structures; that makes a mockery of the concept of equality before the law; that pressures news outlets to bury stories; that rewrites history; that promotes racism and sexism cloaked in the dishonest language of “antiracism” and “diversity”; and that redefines language in Orwellian ways.
Kerry continued with no evident awareness of the radical nature of his ideas:
You know, there’s a lot of discussion now about how you curb those entities in order to guarantee that you’re going to have some accountability on facts, etc. But look, if people only go to only one source, and the source they go to is sick, and, you know, has an agenda, and they’re putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to be able to just, you know, hammer it out of existence.
Would “disinformation” include Adam Schiff’s claim that he had unassailable proof that Trump colluded with Russians?
Would disinformation include the claim about the existence of a “pee tape”?
Would disinformation include the claim that the laptop from hell did not belong to Hunter Biden?
Would disinformation include the claim that COVID definitely did not originate in the Wuhan Institute of Viral Gain-of-Function Research?
Would disinformation include the claim that masks, social distancing, and COVID vaccines would stop the virus dead in its tracks?
Would disinformation include Hillary Clinton’s repeated claim that Trump stole the election from her?
The entities Kerry wants to curb in order to usher in a green economy post haste—a green economy whose effects will be little felt by the extraordinarily wealthy, like the Kerrys, Obamas, Bezoses, and Gateses—are any entities that permit the free exchange of ideas Kerry hates.
Kerry wants ideas he views as “sick” to be hammered out of existence, and if the hammering is hampered by the First Amendment, then America must hammer that out of existence first.
Kerry will hammer in the morning. He’ll hammer in the evening. He’ll hammer all over this land until the First Amendment and inconvenient ideas are gone, baby, gone.
Americans would be foolish to dismiss Kerry’s words as the mad utterings of an 80-year-old leftist. Kerry said aloud the quiet part that leftists of all ages harbor in their dark, know-it-all hearts: To hell with the First Amendment and any other constitutional or legal mechanism that stands in Big Brother’s way of acquiring monopolistic power over everything—including “facts.”
Kerry doesn’t want to tinker around the edges of America’s environmental and economic policies. Oh, no, this self-appointed savior of the world says, “Everything has to change.” And by everything, leftists mean even our Constitution.