Tom Friedman: Rotten Watermelon

By Chris Rossini

Tom ("The Scholar") DiLorenzo describes a typical watermelon as:

...a totalitarian socialist whose real objective is to revive socialism and economic central planning under the subterfuge of "saving the planet" from capitalism. He is "green" on the outside, but red on the inside, and is hence appropriately labeled a "watermelon."

Tom ("The Swindler") Friedman fits the bill perfectly in his latest piece:

One way to get us to act with an intergenerational perspective is to enlarge the problem beyond climate — to make people understand that this is our generation’s freedom struggle. The abiding strategy of our parents’ generation was “containment” of communism in order to be free. The abiding strategy of our generation has to be “resilience.” We will only be free to live the lives we want if we make our cities, country and planet more resilient.

Reminds one of William Buckley who wanted "a totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores" in order to battle the economic basket-case known as Communism.

Friedman knows the drill. Americans were frightened into submission back then...why not do it again? This time though, the boogeyman will be called Global Cooling, Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Disruption:

What containment was for our parents’ generation — their strategy to fight for freedom against the biggest threat of their day — resiliency will be for our generation against the multiple threats of our day: climate change, petro-dictatorship and destruction of our environment and biodiversity.

Let's always speak-out against the watermelons, and make sure they can't pull off their totalitarian ruse.

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