Eric Hoffer still instructs

Statism is a new term, a Mark Levin construct, but it was common concern for Hoffer and the millions of those who fought and died in the middle of the last century. Back in the day, it was called Marxism, fascism, NAZIism, communism, socialism and so on. 

Hoffer echoes the voice of Madison regarding Federalist Papers No. 10.  Below are short quotes from a national treasure, Eric Hoffer, but you won't hear about him in school. 

Today, we hear of progressivism and even the term liberalism has been stolen to mask state control. Nonetheless, this new progressivism is the same instinct for power and control, coupled with increasingly ignorant sheeple in our culture.  It is very sad that we are giving away what our fathers lived and died to protect.  The people giving it away don't even know it. Very sad.

"Facts are Counterrevolutionary" Eric Hoffer, Patron Saint of Washington Rebel:

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations - past and present - are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hunger, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia. Thus, we are up against the paradox that the individual who is more complex, unpredictable, and mysterious than any communal entity is the one nearest to our understanding; so near that even the interval of millennia cannot weaken our feeling of kinship. If in some manner the voice of an individual reaches us from the remotest distance of time, it is a timeless voice speaking about ourselves.  Reflections on the Human Condition

And speaking of power ...

Even in the freest society power is charged with the impulse to turn men into precise, predictable automata. When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is the elimination or neutralization of the independent individual - the independent voter, consumer, worker, owner, thinker - and that every device they employ aims at turning man into a manipulatable 'animated instrument,' which is Aristotle's definition of a slave.

On the other hand, every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. The indications are that such an impairment is brought about not by strengthening the individual and pitting him against the possessors of power, but by distributing and diversifying power and pitting one category or unit of power against the other. Where power is one, the defeated individual, however strong and resourceful, can have no refuge and no recourse.  Ordeal of Change(1963)

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Irene sent in a piece from the American Thinker that noted the quiet change of global temperature graphs by UN bureaucrats. The article notes the graphs now in use still don't include the Little Ice Age and rely on Hansen's information; I have visited this bureaucrat's information before.

If you use real data, GISS, which is not standard:

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Sunday, September 6, 2009

UN IPCC Scientist predicts cooling

While stressing, in a speech at the UN's World Climate Conference, that he is not a climate sceptic, Mojib Latif of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University, Germany and author for the IPCC, has nonetheless warned the climate scientists present at the conference, that the earth could be about to enter "one or even two decades during which temperatures cool." ...

If you click on the site, you can find another graph being used. This one ignores sea temperatures, still the trend is down.

I have to hand it to these people, they still "believe" in warming, though we are cooling.

Imagine what would have happened to us were it not for this cooling period?  We are lucky to have an opportunity to shut down industry before the CO2 turns back on again.  Or some such gibberish.