Who're We Kidding? They Just Really Like Lying

Why is it so hard to find NewAge Leftists who are willing to tell the truth straight-out? Why do they have to play games, be deceptive, try to get one thing while claiming they want another?

For instance, we are all told fighting climate change is about the NewAge aspiration to "save the planet", right? (Let's, for this discussion, leave aside the question of if it needs saving.) All this talk we hear - about we have to go green, and go for cap-and-trade, etc. - is in service to the idea we're going to burn to a crisp if we don't do as the NewAge Leftists say, correct?

Not according to German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer:

One must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy.

Whoopsie! So, to answer our own question, the reason NewAge Leftists will not tell the truth about climate change policy is because they don't want us to know it's yet another one of their socialist plots to "spread the wealth around". That's a pretty good reason to lie, isn't it? Wouldn't want anyone in America - the country everybody wants money from - to get the idea those NewAge Leftists (who claim to care about us more than everyone else) are really attempting to rip us off, for someone else, would they?

Nah, because then they'd also have to admit they see us as a soft touch (and also as soft in the head as they are) which, in this conservative era, might really start to piss somebody off.

And nobody wants that.