Why do Democrats Really love Global Warming?

Simple, it gives them a chance to be Democrats, i.e., a chance to be part of a herd. Of course, a herd needs a leader and so Democrats must always have one. No one ever made this point more innocently and more accurately than George Clooney when he recently said, "when Obama walks into a room you see a leader". Never mind that Thomas Jefferson and the Republicans instantly transformed all of human history by founding America to be free of leaders. To Democrats, the need to be joyously and caringly led in a spirit of community, by a benevolent leader, feels deeply profound regardless of what its real meaning might be. It moves their very soul in a way that is virtually indisguishable from their confused need to be part of a loving family.

The animalistic Democratic herd instinct played out in history until it was gainsaid, at least temporarily, by Thomas Jefferson. One might have thought the success of America would have put a permanent end to the collectivist mentality that produced Caesars, Czars, and Kings, but instead it just spawned new creative forms of herd gov'ts that purported to be superior to the older failed forms, and superior even to Jeffersonian freedom. Theses included, primarily, Nazis, Communists, Fascists, Socialists, Liberals and American Democrats. But the collectivist herd mentality of the Democrats just never established any intellectual principles, let alone a country, that worked very well no matter what form it took. Freedom was the obvious intellectual victor. In Jeffersonian America , at least, the wisdom of the masses replaced the genocides of the elite, but that did not change millions of years of evolutionary history that left many human beings with the herd genes of their animal ancestors, and a relatively small rational brain with which to discipline those genes for a modern age which features freedom and individual liberty.

So what's a innovative Democrat to do? He must find a new rationale for a powerful central gov't that can bring the herd together once again, and global warming provides the perfect rationale. Yesterday, Sen. Harry Reid alluded to it this way: "renewable forms of energy are all around us just waiting to be utilized". He seemed like an earnest Girl Scout leader describing to all the summer campers the meaningful communitarian fun they were going to have while joined together around the camp fire doing gov't projects to utilize all the wonderful new forms of energy. Could the herd have a higher more inspiring reason to follow along? Harry Reid and the Democrats seem to have topped even Karl Marx, and just when you thought it could never happen again, let alone here.

But, because global warming appears to be just another gimmick around which another herd gov't can develop , it makes no rational sense to thoughtful and freedom loving Jeffersonian Republicans. For example, if scientists agree that the