The Consuming Agenda of Climate Change and Woke Genderism

"[While Trump's] false [and] outrageous [comments and behaviours were offensive and objectionable, the Harris campaign faced major ideological obstacles]."

"Put another way, the takeover of the Democratic party by progressive, so-called woke issues was devastating to Harris's campaign especially as Trump and the Republicans successfully painted her as an unreconstructed 'left-winger'."

Michael Hirsh; 'Why She Lost', Foreign Policy magazine

"Across the last decade, the defining pattern of national politics has been class de-alignment: a vast migration of working-class voters away from the Democratic Party."

Matt Karp, Princeton University

"America is a failed democracy. Our media failed us, our institutions failed us, our people failed us."

"Worst of all, we now pose a major threat to the planet."

Michael E. Mann, climate science extremist, Pennsylvania University

"We have more liquid gold, oil and gas. We have more liquid gold than any country in the world. More than Saudi Arabia. We have more than Russia."

"We're gonna have to seal up those borders, and we're gonna have to let people come into our country. We want people to come back in. But we have to, we have to let them them come back, but they have to come in legally."

President-Elect Donald Trump

CBS News

 

The U.S. presidential election is now over, and while much of America is pleased, much of it is not. The stock market rose significantly in response to the election outcome. Investors anticipate that the U.S. economy, freshly released from anti-business constraints, largely environmental concerns and high taxes is set to boom. The election results left Democrats and aligned activists in an agony of misery with the realization that the Democrats' social and economic ideas have come to a thudding halt. Woke genderism and extreme climate agendas along with costly industrial policy interventions failed to move the electorate.

Kamala Harris was weighed down by the very ideological mainsprings she supported and spoke so glowingly of as achievements. Her chirpy happy-style along with her evasiveness when questioned and the gushing flow of meaningless words did her no favours. Nor did a tide of voter rejection of the  extreme progressive elements of the Biden agenda that she carried forward.

The Democrats really did believe that its infrastructure spending driving up debt and devotion to climate and clean energy programs would popularize them and bring them to an electoral lead in the polls. They simply failed to recognize that voters, in response to a Democratic agenda they would not support, saw their Republican adversary bathed in a new light of promising delivery from the ideology of woke in all its manifestations.

On the one hand, upper-class voters continued to gravitate to the Democrats, while working class and the middle class support for an agenda that had no appeal for them, dwindled. Their obsessive focus on climate issues and carbon control alienated voters who struggled against inflation and an economy that failed to lift them into economic security.Their concerns over the cost of living and social disruptions were simply never addressed. Polls indicated that climate concerns formed no part of that demographic's concerns.

 

Oil refinery is silhouetted against the setting sun in McPherson, Kansas. Photo: AP

 

The existential hyperbole that environmental doomsayers spouted and the Biden administration catered to had no firm focus in the world inhabited by the average American voter. This is not an attitude solely of the American public exhausted by the constant drumming of climate change alarmism and the costs that accompany it; it is an emerging global phenomenon.

It appears that governments wherever they are located are increasingly feeling a backlash of citizen revolt against irritating and expensive climate change agendas promoted by the West and flouted by the East. America's northern neighbour has seen its Liberal government equally invested in climate change, adversarial to the trade and export potential of its vast reserves of oil and gas, insisting on keeping it in the ground for the sake of the environment rather than producing profit for the sake of the country.

South China News

"This is the revenge of the regular old working-class American, the anonymous American who has been crushed, insulted, condescended to."

"They're not garbage, they're not Nazis, they're just regular people who get up and go to work every day trying to make a better life for their kids, and they feel like they have been told to just shut up when they have complained about the things that are hurting them in their own lives."

Scott Jennings, CNN