The reason so many conservatives don't get the EPA is that they don't get the concept of the private ownership of property. Which is what the EPA is based on, and what the EPA exists to enforce. These conservatives don't like or understand property for the same reason that they don't like or understand liberty or the rule of law. And that is because if you understand and approve of private property, then like liberty or law, it only works if it applies to everyone. And it's that part, the applying to everyone, that they have a fundamental problem with.
What EPA is basically saying is that you can't destroy someone else's property. What the opponents of EPA are saying is that it's OK to destroy other people's property. Because reasons. But the real reason is that to them only the elite should have property. No one else's has any value and no one not of the elite should be secure in their property. No more than they should be secure in their liberty or their rights under the law.
You can see that in the arguments that are being made. They are not making a liberty argument, not making a law argument, and not making a property argument. Instead they make the essentially fascist argument that environmental protections cut too much into economic growth. And that growing the economy is the higher priority, even when doing so means the confiscation and destruction of the property of the citizenry. And the destruction of the citizenry themselves.
Irony being, of course, that it won't result in greater economic growth.
But that irony is ignored because Crony Capitalism. Which in America today is the privileged aristocrats. So instead of the lords and barons of times past, who should not be taxed or regulated because of their special place in society, where they do so much for us, today we have the job creatorsCrony Capitalists who should not be taxed or regulated because of their special place in society, where they do so much for us.
Global warming is just part of the trend. The US Department of Defense thinks man made global warming is not just real, but a major risk to national security. The insurance industry thinks man made global warming is not just real, but a major risk to the economic future. It's real. Everyone except radical ideologues know that it's real. But they are opposed to doing anything about it because Crony Capitalism now matters more to them than the good of the country in the future.
