When I was in college in the 1970s, I recall hearing people say, “We’ll have solar energy when the Rockefellers own the sun.”

Nothing’s changed too much in half a century.

Big Money Still Controls Planet’s Energy

I met a guy yesterday you told me, “We live on this planet at the generosity of the forces of nature.  These privileges can be withdrawn at any time, and without notice.”

I thought that was clever.

A Metaphor on the Natural Forces that Support Human Life on Earth

Everyone living in the United States benefits from our federal, state, and local governments in many dozens of different ways, from roads, bridges, tunnels, airports, banking insurance, help for veterans, national forests, public schooling (K-12), firefighting, criminal justice, fuel pipelines, subsidies for social goods, national defense, elections, etc.

All progressives really want to add to the list is free college education and universal health care.

Of course, we would also like to see corrupt Supreme Court justices like the one shown at left go to prison, but that’s already covered in “criminal justice.”

Progressivism