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Assume, for the moment, that climate change is a real and existential threat, or at least is potentially so. 

Yes, I know, but stay with me now. I said assume. You can do it. 

With that said, also assume, as is manifestly the case, that one's level of knowledge is insufficient to know exactly the ways in which the changing of the climate will manifest itself. Perhaps there will be shifts in rainfall patterns, or storms, or warming or cooling in ways that are too complex to accurately predict. 

But you want to convince people to ACT RIGHT NOW to avert what you believe is a genuine threat. What do you do?

Well, climate change alarmists decided long ago on a simple strategy: keep making apocalyptic predictions, attribute every disaster to climate change regardless of the real cause, adjust the data to make conditions now seem more dire, and constantly push people into a steady state of anxiety. 

Simultaneously, you paint a rosy picture of what benefits will stem from making "investments" to mitigate the change, such as "green jobs" and economic booms. 

In other words, you tell what you consider to be "white lies." 

As long as you control Pravda, you can keep making bad predictions, and people will not notice that the previous ones didn't come to pass—or at least the people who are inclined to believe "experts" and prestige media. 

By now, it is safe to say that no pronouncement from "expert" Mount Olympus has ever come to pass, except in the vaguest way possible. Over the decades, hurricanes have become less, not more, frequent, and this is consistent with past trends showing hurricane activity waxing and waning with various climate cycles. 

Islands have not been swamped, as the UN has warned us time and again. The world didn't end when the UN's favorite climate fanatic told us it would, either. 

The UN Secretary General wades out into the ocean and declares the Maldives will soon be underwater. Instead, they turn into a high-end resort with billions of dollars of infrastructure invested since that declaration, and a new airport is being built. 

Once you start paying attention, you notice that every incidence of arson magically transforms into climate disaster, and that every dark warning seems to evaporate to be replaced with a similar one, with the dates moved. 

Teens who the United Nations celebrate as the next Joan of Arc move on to other causes, but new ones pop up to keep the whole panic going. 

It all becomes tiresome, because it is very obvious that everything being told to you is a lie. It is said not to communicate a truth, but to get you scared enough to do what they want. The magic "green" jobs never arrive, energy prices skyrocket, your economy deindustrializes, and everything seems worse than it need be for no benefit.

But people comply. Because they believe the "experts."

Then you look back on COVID, which was supposed to be the pandemic of the century, and notice that everything told to you about that was a lie. Sure, it was bad, but the death toll amounted to not much more than a bad flu year, and the one Western country that didn't go along with the panic actually had fewer deaths, long term, than those which went all-in on pandemic fascism. 

Kids turned out not to be "resilient," inflation from massive money printing raised prices by 25%, government fraud exploded, and people got sent to jail for surfing alone. Government officials turned out to have funded the creation of the virus, and lied about its origins, and that six-foot social distancing thing was just made up. 

The head of the CDC turns out to be a total ditz, and Anthony Fauci, who was compared to Jesus, turned out to be a psychopath. Cuomosexuals turned on him because he treats women badly, and nothing was as we were told. 

Sure, COVID was bad, but the lies were worse. 

Now think about "the border is secure." "Biden is sharp as a tack." "Tim Walz is your goofy dad." "Men can get pregnant."

Everything, it seems, is a lie. And even things which may or may not be a lie, you simply cannot tell, because the elite lie so much, and every time they do, they demand you hand them money and power. 

Perhaps all they care about is money and power?

So now we are at the point where the very elites we count on to keep track of the state of the world and give us advice—not orders, but advice, as we live in a democracy—turn out to be sociopaths. 

This is a disaster. Ordinary people need to run their own lives, not become experts in climate change, disease, crime control, city management, transportation, housing, or foreign policy. We need people whom we can trust to keep track of these things and keep us up to date, so when decisions must be made, we have the best advice possible. 

It may not be perfect, but ordinary Americans bought into the Marshal Plan because we trusted our elites. Bretton Woods turned out pretty well, and no committee of ordinary voters would have come up with that and have been able to negotiate it. We need those elites, but we need GOOD ones, not sociopaths. 

Unfortunately, all we seem to have are sociopathic liars, who no longer believe in democratic choice, but in bullying us into "doing the right thing." And if they are wrong? No skin off their noses; they have all the power, privileges, and money that comes from being at the top of the pyramid. 

Anthony Fauci was the highest-paid federal employee and now has the highest pension in history, despite coordinating the biggest public policy disaster in human history. He is loved, applauded, and rich, while kids have lost years of education, and trust in public health professionals has plummeted. 

We don't trust the elites because they are untrustworthy. Hence, we have Trump. He, too, may mess things up, but any worse than the current lot? At least we know where he stands. For all the talk about him lying, he seems to do exactly what he says he would, even under enormous pressure. 

Lots of people hate Trump, which is fine. But everybody who allowed elites to lie again and again and justified it should know that you made Trump necessary. 

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David Strom 12:00 PM | January 21, 2026
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