'Sack the voters' and go directly to Banana Republic. Andrew Bolt

• The left hoped the climate guys would carry a totalitarian social ideology across the finish line.

"Age business writer Paddy Manning is wavering in his support for the democracy of the market place:

Can capitalism deal with climate change? It’s an article of faith for this column that a relatively free market operating in a democratic system will respond more quickly and effectively to climate change than a centralised dictatorship.

Faith is needed, because climate change is proof of colossal market failure.

Behold the Trojan Horse.

• Actually, Paddy, what you are railing against is the realisation by politicians that the voters will punish them

for climate alarmism that comes with a big bill. It’s not capitalism that’s “failed” you, but democracy, with voters refusing to endorse the policies you prefer. Those who see in this an argument against capitalism

• simply confirm that, as ever, the anti-capitalist movement is at heart anti-democratic.

Climate alarmism is just the latest refugee of the Western totalitarian."...

• "Sack the Voters," by Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun Australia, 4/4/10 via Tom Nelson

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