The Elimination of the Middle Class
Electric cars aren't as much about cleaning the environment as cleaning out the middle class.
When one drills down a few strata into the Biden agenda, one finds a few pay zones capable of producing enough truth to make the well worth completing.
Today, I happened to pull into our local Sam’s Club to fill up my carbon emitting pickup and notice a couple of people pushing a Tesla over to the charging stations in the parking lot. It seemed the Tesla ran out of juice about fifty yards from the station and good old people power was needed to complete the trip.
I immediately thought about the ironic, contradictory situation in California of Gavin Newsom calling for no more internal combustion powered cars to be sold by 2035 and the announcement from the power folks asking people not to charge their EV’s due to a strain on the power grid.
Then I thought about the image of a $100,000 Tesla Model S being charged in the parking lot of a middle-class mainstay, a Big Box Retail Store.
The incongruity of that image made me wonder if the middle class is compatible with an all-electric future and the conclusion, I drew is that the two are entirely incompatible.
The Biden administration is forcing the Green New Deal on America through various avenues, even though there are several significant limitations. First, as California can attest, there isn’t enough generating capacity to service all the EVs now, even though these vehicles form a distinct minority of the cars on the road. If that wasn’t enough, the purchase prices and repair costs are exorbitant as compared to good old dinosaur juice fueled vehicles and then we need to consider the car manufacturers simply aren’t capable of producing enough EVs to replace hydrocarbon burners retiring from the national fleet. Looking to the supply chain, even of the car folks could produce, they couldn’t because there aren’t enough rare earth materials to build enough batteries.
So, as I noted – significant limitations.
Given these constraints, why would Biden and the Secretary of Energy, Scary Spice Granholm continue to push this agenda?
Well, it probably won’t surprise you, but it isn’t really about electricity or electric vehicles.
It is about eliminating the middle class completely.
The aspirations of the American middle class are the primary reason communism never took hold here. I don’t remember which Soviet official said it, but it was said that as long as the happiness and optimism of the American middle class existed, there never would be enough unhappiness to sell communism. The problem was that even though a person in the middle class might never become rich, they all believed it was always possible. Combine that optimistic outlook with a good job and the American dream, and commies couldn’t find a receptive audience anywhere.
It seems that for the authoritarianism inherent in communism to work, one can’t have three classes because it is tough to engender class conflict if there is too much social an economic mobility, therefore, one class must go. The rich aren’t going anywhere, and the poor are already dependent upon government, so the middle class is the odd man out.
To get rid of the middle class, you just attack the things they use every day. Raise the price of energy, food, housing through artificial scarcity created through policy edicts – like forcing everyone who drives to buy a new $60-100K car while oil and gas is prohibitively expensive. Then, if they can afford an EV, when electricity becomes scarce, those prices rise, squeezing even harder. In short, you break the middle class by making them poor and forcing them into public transportation, which of course, is owned by the government.
Pop goes the weasel, now the mobility of the former middle class is controlled.
It is only a short hop to there being only two classes with which to deal.
The move to EVs most certainly isn’t about the environment, it is about subjugating the middle class.
My dad came to this country from tern Europe.. escaped in early 50’s.. he told me many times mobility is key to freedom.. not on transit.. your own vehicle.. Great opinion piece! Look over here.. while left dismantles liberty!
Good points, Mr Smith. It makes me think of the frustration expressed by so many in the pro liberty side about the failure of Americans to somehow rise up against the obvious tyrannical policies from dc. But the same middle class that is a break on communist revolution is the break on any sort of uprising against dc. In short, the middle class and working class still have too much to lose by taking any action. That doesn't mean they are incapable of it or never will. A man faced w a starving family will easily kill for food. DC may succeed in reducing the middle class to lower class but that may be the time it all explodes, when they have nothing left to lose.