Tone-Deaf on Inflation: Elites, Deficit Spending and Climate Change | RealClearPolitics
While it seems clear that the Davos crowd and those who attend other self-aggrandizing conferences in places like Glasgow view climate change as an existential threat that must be dealt with immediately regardless of the costs of their plans, everyday people don t seem to be so sure. According to a Gallup Poll conducted ahead of last year s elections, the issue of climate change was ranked second to last among 16 issues deemed very important or extremely important when voting for President in 2020. Despite this inconvenient truth, the political elite seems insistent on reordering the global economy and risking the prospects of structurally high inflation to fix a problem that they apparently believe their constituents are either too dumb or too uninformed to understand.
I’m pretty sure all of us deplorables out here, even those of us who are deplorable by choice rather than by birth, as it were, will not be down with gas at $10/gal., let alone at $20/gal., especially if that means there’s not enough cash left over for dinner out at Arby’s once a month, new socks for Dad, or the cable bill. They ain’t gonna like it and they ain’t gonna stand for it. Of course, it may be too late by then.