“Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.”  Of course, that’s what Rhett Butler said to Scarlett at the end of Gone With The Wind.  And I have come to the conclusion that the sentiment expressed by Clark Gable so many years ago should be our response to the ever-increasing, ever-crazier, and ever-louder demands and rants of the Left.  Have you ever noticed that so-called Progressives are never happy, even when they win?  Il Duce Obama was not in favor of same-sex marriage when he was elected in 2008.  And then he was.  The LGBT community kept telling us that it wasn’t demanding the right to marry, but simply the right for partners to visit one another in the hospital.  One morning, it all changed.  The Left not only favored gay marriage, they demanded it immediately, and they denounced anyone who failed to agree.  So they got gay marriage.  Were they happy about that?  Oh no!  That wasn’t enough, so they went on to trans-gender rights.  Let trans people change gender on demand, or else.  Let naked biological men parade around young girls in Ladies Rooms and female locker rooms, or else.  Let male athletes hijack women’s sports, or else.  The climate change fanatics are no different.  They rant, without evidence of any kind, and indeed in the face of contrary evidence, that the Earth is on fire, and we only have 12, or 10, or 7  years to live.  We must “transition” to renewable energy now, or else.  Transition means close industries, fire workers, and turn them into penniless wards of the State.  See how it works?  Shut down coal plants, or else.  Shut down oil production, or else.  Buy only electric cars, or else.  For years we’ve tried to have a dialogue with the people on the Left, but they’re only interested in one opinion – theirs.  Your opinion doesn’t count, and more than half of so-called journalists recently admitted that they see no reason even to report the fact that there are differing opinions.  Well, I say it’s time to fight fire with fire.  It’s time we challenged these crazy bastards, because that’s exactly what they are.  It would be one thing if the demands of the Left were based on actual fact, but they’re not.  The Left exists in a fantasy world, and its demands are based entirely on lies, mistakes, and deceptions about their real intentions.  Simply put, the Progressive movement is a fraud.  Systemic racism doesn’t exist, but we have to listen to Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden, who’s been in the government for 50 years, complain about it.  By the same token, the climate change hysteria is based on a tissue of lies.  NOAA announces every year as the hottest on record.  That would be troubling if true.  It’s not, NOAA knows it’s not, and has been caught changing data to fit the agenda.  Tony Heller at the Real Climate Science web site says that NOAA changes data to make pre-2000 temperatures cooler, and post-2000 temperatures warmer.  This data tampering by NOAA accounts for the claim that temperatures have risen 2.5 degrees since 1895.  Climate analyst Paul Homewood cited another example.  Actual temperatures in New York State,  this past year were 2.7 degrees or more colder than in 1943.  NOAA’s phony  data claims temperatures this year as 0.9 degrees cooler than the actual data in 1943.  Leftists keep claiming that climate change has increased hurricanes and severe weather.  People like meteorologist Joe Bastardi from weatherbell.com keep proving them wrong.  So the global warming scare is basically a hoax.  That doesn’t deter the Leftist loons.  Senator Joe Manchin recently spoiled Biden’s plan to spend another trillion dollars we don’t have, much of it to go to “green energy” projects.  The plan was a hyper-inflationary boondoggle.  Yet here’s the reaction from Hillary henchman John Podesta, “It seems odd that Manchin would choose as his legacy to be the one man who single-handedly doomed humanity.”  If he’s doomed us to live within our means, and in touch with reality, then God bless him.  Because that’s the problem with these Leftist wingnuts.  As I’ve said many times, it’s brain damage.  As Ronald Reagan once observed, “It’s not that they’re bad people, they just know too many things that aren’t so.”  That’s only half right.  The Progressives in power in the government are using “the green new deal” crap to hide their hidden agenda.  When the Berlin Wall fell, the Reds all became Greens.  Climate change is just another way for them to pursue their plans for socialist revolution.  Don’t doubt me.  Pete Buttigieg spilled the beans just this week.  Asked about the pain being inflicted by doubled fuel prices Pete said, “the more pain we are all experiencing from the high price of gas, the more benefit there is for those who can access electric vehicles.”  Get that?  The government policy is to bankrupt the public to force the green energy hoax down our throats, like it or not.     Whether Red or Green, the goal is total government control over every aspect of your life, government run industries, and the end of personal freedom, so Red-Green, what’s the difference?  The followers of this Progressive claptrap are simply not in touch with reality.  They perceive Russian collusion where it doesn’t exist, and fail to perceive such collusion where it does exist.  They tell children the Earth is on fire and the polar bears are dying.  In reality, the polar bear population is up 500% since 1970, but that’s a fact, so they can’t accept it.  Which brings me back to Clark Gable.  When a Leftist tells you to capitulate or else, ask him, “or else what?”  You can’t mollify the mentally ill by pretending that they’re sane and everybody else is crazy.  So stop encouraging them in their insanity.  You shouldn’t care what they think, believe or want because they surely don’t care what you think, believe or want.  If they can’t respect your opinion, there’s no reason you should even entertain theirs.  So just tell the kook his opinion means nothing to you.  You don’t care what he thinks, what he believes, or what he demands.  Suggest that he or she seek help.  Better yet, just tell him what Rhett told Scarlett, “Frankly my friend, I don’t give a damn.”