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by Nathaniel Ward, The Heritage Foundation
Liberalism has a virulent new strain of political correctness, Heritage’s Helle Dale writes in The Washington Times. “Challenge the belief that the Earth is warming dangerously due to human activity, or criticize any of its high priests, and the wrath of true believers will be visited upon you.”
A few weeks ago, a conservative organization in Tennessee, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, published a study looking into the energy usage of former Vice President and environmental activist Al Gore. “As it turned out,” Dale explains, “the Gore mansion interestingly uses 20 times more electricity than the average American home.”
Liberals, though, could not stand to see their secular religion of environmentalism challenged—and they reacted strongly. Dale continues: “Little did the staff anticipate that by posting the facts of the Gore family’s bloated and certainly hypocritical energy consumption on their Web site, they would create an international firestorm, become the subject of death threats and vicious verbal abuse, and almost see their Web site shut down because of the onslaught.”
Perhaps it says something about the weak intellectual and moral ground on which liberalism stands that its defenders are forced to resort to such tactics. Think about it for a minute. Does pointing out the environmental practices of radical environmentalism’s chief spokesman—facts that are in the public record, after all—really warrant death threats?
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