From a reader:
Attended the Arkansas Political Science Association meeting last night. Was
at a dinner and they had the mayor of Fayetteville, AR, Dan Coody as the
keynote speaker. He babbled on for a long time about sustainability and how
he attended a meeting with Wal-Mart and a big-time Wal-Mart exec got up in
front of a host of their suppliers and told them that if they didn’t get in
line with ‘sustainability’ (aka. Progressive environmentalism) that they
wouldn’t be supplying Wal-Mart (making the Left’s often monolithic view of
corporations as right-wing ideologues so much bunk).
Anyway, the revealing
moment of the speech was where he said (paraphrase): “The days of allowing
people to think they have the right to waste however much they want are on
their way out. That belief has to go.” Oh, and he continually referred to
trying to get a more “progressive” view to the environment adopted
nation-wide. All I could think to myself was that here is Liberal Fascism
in action.
[Name withheld]
(oh, and no surprise that he felt like he was in a room
of fellow travelers, it being an academic conference. Hell, for the most
part, that assumption was dead on)