So, why not believe that the wish can create the deed? People still believe that GM has suppressed technology that would let its cars get 100 mpg, why not believe that the only reason we don’t have cheap, 100% clean power is that until now no one has cared, so we can simply direct it to be so.

North Korea would be the richest state in the world if that were possible.

The irony is that people who correctly see past slavery as an evil, are blind to the crushing effects of slavery by edict at the hands of a central government.

Doctors will be required to work in a medical bureaucracy, at lower salaries than the bureaucrats. Power companies will be required to do the good things specified by an energy bureaucracy, or go bankrupt — their choice.

Don’t worry, they say, after about 100 years of painful adjustment, all will be peace and prosperity. With them in charge. That is their idea of modern thought and historical insight.

Modern Russia is the result of just such an experiment.

Unfortunately, it is not just Obama who believes this. The Democratic leadership in the Congress thinks the same way.

Most of the public has no idea what it takes to create power. They think they are being overcharged for something easy to produce. They think: if only the big corporations could be pried away from the technology they own, energy would be almost free for all. The government has been pushing this line for years.

See also Magic Power

Just as Mao, the Great Helmsman, successfully industrialized China by force of will during The Great Leap Forward, so too will The One lead us audaciously to a new Hopeful, Changed future where non-polluting energy sources replace all carbon emitting and nuclear energy plants.

Certainly The One expects that there will be saboteurs and revanchist thinkers who will attempt to thwart the new way of doing things. Sadly that type of limited, backward looking thinking is all too common among the engineers and technical class as it currently exists. That is only to be expected in a field that has maintained itself as a disproportionately white and male bastion against the progressive forces of diversity for far too long. However once the ranks of the technologist classes have been properly diversified, we can expect to hear a lot less defeatist carping and more enthusiastic production of non-polluting energy sources.

As Trofim Lysenko said when confronted by naysayers who sought to thwart the will of the people: “Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out.” Through similar study, we can be as successful at increasing energy production as Lysenko was in increasing farm productivity.

We’re likely to be squatting in the dark a few years from now as a result.

In the unlikely event that such a global warming scheme does get passed in the U.S., it will simply drive more heavy manufacturing to China and other Asian countries. It may even drive medium to light manufacturing to Asia as well. Of course, congress could pass tariffs and other import restrictions. However, these would simply create considerable inflation in addition to economic stagnation. Every democrat worth their salt remembers that it was this kind of stagflation that did in Carter. So, it is unlikely that these things will come to pass.

Where does energy come from? It’s a social product, the collectivist states. It just happens, a result of the cooperative efforts of social forces concerned with energy. Of course there must be leaders and coordinators and facilitators, but in the final analysis, it is the will and the spirit of the people that causes all things, their needs and desires. The people demand energy.

Blanked out of all this “social action”, of course, is the role of the scientist, the inventor, the designer, any of the individual creative minds that actually created the theories and instrumentalities that made it all possible. There are no Edisons in the collective.

And the costs? Well, society is wealthy. Don’t ask so many silly questions about opportunity or political vs economic decisions or all these other things. The anointed might get the idea you are not “on the team”. A troublemaker. A wrecker. Not a good place to be, you know?

“YES WE CAN” does not allow for failure. We must be alert for sabotuers who want Change to fail. Personal sacrifice will be required of all of us so that the great Change can occur. Recidivist reactionary forces must be hunted down.
Fortunately He understands and is prepared

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s

of course these are NOT military organizations but they will all wear the same color shirt so we will know we are protected from those who do not believe that YES WE CAN! means We Can Do Anything.