Thoughts on Gore the Massive Energy Burning Elitist

Victor David Hanson reports on elitist Al Gore and his friends:

Collate the anti-capital rants of a zillionaire currency speculator George Soros, the green sermons from a late Ted Kennedy who stopped a wind farm from marring his vacation home’s views, a John Edwards of “two nations” fame constructing a Neroian Golden House, a Tom Friedman warning of the consumer habits that lead to a hot, flat earth from a 10,000 square foot English-style estate of the sort that 18th-century English barons built after successful careers in the Raj, the comic case of Jeremiah Wright moving to a mostly white golf course to dream up more sermons about “white folks’ greed runs a world in need” or a $5 million a year earning Obama—with all his expenses picked up by the government— lamenting out loud why rich people seem to want ever more money they don’t need. Some spread the wealth around.

We can call this malady Gorism—living not merely at odds with your zealotry, but living entirely against your zealotry—and it seems to reflect a few assumptions of the modern progressive elite that are not mutually exclusive:

An article well worth your time.