It's always about power

The midwits at Axios report on a poll of mayors asking what “tools” they want to fight climate change. Guess what? They want more power. Who could have seen that coming. …

More “influence.” More “control.” (I like how mayors want more “control over streets and sidewalks,” but don’t expect that “control” to extend to the homeless encampments making city streets and sidewalks into outdoor latrines.) More “authority” to ban things and control behavior. More subsidies. More propaganda (though they call it “persuasion” here). The point is: for the left, any excuse to acquire more power will do. This is one reason for the durability of climate change as a political cause: it offers nearly endless possibilities for government to acquire more power and control over people and resources. There may never be an issue as good as this for the left.