What happens when leftism collides with reality?
Recently, Ana Kasparian, co-host of the left-wing program “Young Turks”, discovered about it.
Kasparian has been complaining about the financial difficulties of upgrading her California apartment to permit electric vehicle charging.
Governor Gavin Newsom, who is decided to bring California straight to the ground, has signed an executive order to stop selling gas-powered cars by 2035, and really expensive charging stations may have to be installed statewide.
A apprehensive Kasparian describes the “huge loan” her constructing has to take out to put in the stations.
“I need to do something in response to climate change, that is not my problem. My problem is that we’re forced to make all these changes which might be a financial burden, an enormous inconvenience, with none help,” he says – and starts a tirade about how the government should just “give me money” as a substitute of offering relief tax on things like charging stations.
Well, yes, all of us need to “do something” once we don’t really want to do anything. Her appeal to the government just pay for it is further proof that leftists don’t understand how anything works.
The federal government pays for it… You paying for it.
There isn’t a magic money tree from which the government plucks its favorite projects. The federal government doesn’t have side jobs or part-time jobs where they make some extra money for putting out bad left-wing ideas. All the money comes from us.
![California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order banning the sale of gas-powered cars until 2035.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/NYPICHPDPICT000009348262.jpg?w=1024)
Kasparian also points out that shortly after the gas automotive ban was announced, the state experienced a heatwave and Newsom was forced to inform Californians that their grid was in trouble, so please don’t charge your electric cars. That is one in every of the many explanation why a fast switch to all-electric cars is not a serious proposition, and Newsom is not a serious person.
Interestingly, on this exchange, cenk Uygur, her co-host and creator of “Young Turks”, couldn’t dispute her remarks.
At one point, he tries to softly push away. “I hear all this, but in some unspecified time in the future we’ve got to modify to electric cars,” he says. “The planet is on fire. … So when California says, “Hey, let’s move to electric cars by 2025,” yes, it is going to be tough, but at the same time, prices are coming down.
![Charging an electric vehicle](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/NYPICHPDPICT000009537424.jpg?w=1024)
Kasparian hated it. He understands the real cost of politics, not only the theoretical changes that individuals may have to make.
In one other recent viral video in the same vein, British podcaster Konstantin Kisin of the Oxford Union explains exactly the issue of fighting climate change and why we’d like to face reality: “The longer term of climate will likely be decided in Asia and Latin America by poor individuals who couldn’t sacrifice to avoid wasting the planet.”
Kisin says the trade-off in “fighting” against climate change is solely too high for people around the world who’ve malnourished children and no toilets of their homes.
![Anna Kasparian](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/NYPICHPDPICT000009858706.jpg?w=1024)
Kasparian’s argument that it is simply too high even for people like her, in her almost definitely very nice constructing in California, ought to be instructive to the left. Kasparian is the goal marketplace for these policies and finds them incredibly burdensome.
That is Kasparian’s second try to break free from left-wing groupthink.
She also had trouble with her political allies, claiming that she found terms equivalent to “parturers” and “people with a womb” demeaning to women. Well, they’re. To this end, the leftists called her by name and urged her to stop commenting altogether.
But she shouldn’t. Kasparian is just not a conservative—she’s unlikely to even be a moderate—but she epitomizes what happens when a progressive thinks his ideas through rigorously.
There aren’t any easy solutions to complex problems like climate change, and changing the language in order that 0.01% of the population feels included at the expense of everyone else is insane. You might say.
Woke up conformism puts pressure on people to parrot issues. Kudos to Kasparian for saying enough is enough.
Karol Markowicz is the co-creator of the latest book Stolen Youth.