It has been a mystery to me for some time how the word shrewdness has been used to disguise deceit and dishonesty; how a politician using misleading statements and mischaracterizations of his opponents positions can, in victory, be called a shrewd politician. This is a lying and intentionally misleading politician, not a shrewd one.
We have a global political ideology at work which is quite comfortable in the Liberal wing of our two-party system. U.S. policy and global initiatives are both drawing on the myth of "global warming" or "global climate change" or whatever they decide to call it tomorrow. How very shrewd of them to take a fact of physics, (climate is always, has always, and will always be changing), and fuel a world-changing movement from it. Call it shrewd if you want, I call it utterly reprehensible. There are many factors contributing to the fall of this great nation but the incredible transfer of power from the people to the government is no more obviously represented than in the "environmental" movement. Animated by a religious fervor that rivals John Brown's they seek to influence the whole world under the banner of compassion while leaving whole countries in ruin in their wake. Their action will bring whole economies to a grinding halt while they are busy re-distributing the collected wealth of individuals to those they deem more worthy or more in need. So they will be undermining the very system of economics that could lift people out of their situations and distributing the diminishing wealth to places of their choosing. Problem is, the whole world will be worse off when the dust clears. But, they will be in charge, and that is, after all, what they really want. How very shrewd of them.
