Climtegate: one man, one vote, one time

The title of this post is a well known election rule for the Left. You keep on demanding the democracy until you get the right vote - and then the democracy is declared anti-social, bourgeois or some such. Whether the vote is real as in Germany and Venezuela, or by armed revolt as in Russia does not matter. The "masses" are permitted to speak once, to name their new and permanent rulers.

The 21st century, however, brought a new twist. We now see the science, rather than the excited masses, holding the useless ballot, with the inimitable expression on their faces. You see, the scientific consensus in 1990s and the beginning of 0s was that the earth is warming up. However, further development - both the data from subsequent years and the details on how that consensus was arrived at - changed the mind of a lot of scientists. Too bad it does not matter! Our socially-conscious overlords got the vote they needed, and they are perfectly ready to disregard, discard and punish any new votes that disagree with it. The People (or the Science) has spoken! And now both should shut up and do what they are told.

Whether or not this will work out in the end - the way it did in Soviet Union for a while - remains to be seen. But I do take pleasure in recognizing the familiar phenomenon. It's really fun to see the 99.2% votes cast for the Candidates from the Indivisible Block Of Communists and Non-Party Voters. Again.