Progressives to Americans: Don’t Be Happy
Commentary
In recent weeks, there have been news reports about surveys showing record low levels of happiness and high levels of depression and pessimism among Americans. Those reports indicate that progressives’ plan for America is working well. They don’t want us to be happy.
Woke progressives remind me of hyperconscious moms constantly hovering over their kids, micromanaging their lives and taking away all sorts of things from their kids on the grounds that “that’s not good for you” even when it really isn’t bad for them.
For example, take the recent brouhaha about government plans to ban (some) gas stoves. It turns out that a lot of Americans like to cook with gas stoves. The Biden administration has been trying to downplay such a ban with Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm claiming that “half the gas stoves that are on the market right now wouldn’t even be impacted.” Assuming she’s telling the truth (pardon the cynicism), her statement implies that half the gas stoves would be impacted. That’s a lot of stoves! And what does she mean by “stoves that are on the market right now”? Does that mean half of gas stoves for sale won’t be affected by the regulations the Department of Energy is contemplating, but that perhaps a much larger percentage of stoves that have already been bought, and so aren’t “on the market,” would be?…