The ‘Energy Transition’ That Wasn’t: Crude Demand Hits All-Time High, Yet Again

https://blackmon.substack.com/p/the-energy-transition-that-wasnt?

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THE PROGRESSIVE “MOVEMENT” ( AKA COMMUNISM ) IS DEAD IN THE USA !

Here is a post mortem from a “Liberal” Website …very detailed but a good read …and GOOD RIDANCE

It wasn’t so long ago progressives were riding high. They had a moment; they really did. Their radical views set the agenda and tone for the Democratic Party and, especially in cultural areas, were hegemonic in the nation’s discourse. Building in the teens and cresting in the early ‘20s with the Black Lives Matter protests and heady early days of the Biden administration, very few of their ideas seemed off the table. Defund the police and empty the jails? Sure! Abolish ICE and decriminalize the border? Absolutely! Get rid of fossil fuels and have a “Green New Deal”? Definitely! Demand trillions of dollars for a “transformational” Build Back Better bill? We’re just getting started! Promote DEI and the struggle for “equity” (not equal opportunity) everywhere? It’s the only way to fight privilege! Insist that a new ideology around race and gender should be accepted by everyone? Of course, only a bigot would resist!

As far as progressives were concerned, they had ripped the Overton window wide open and it only remained to push the voters through it. In their view, that wouldn’t be too hard since these were great ideas and voters, at least the non-deplorable ones, were thirsty for a bold new approach to America’s problems.

https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/the-progressive-moment-is-over?