Increasingly shameful to members of America’s conservative wing, Glenn Beck evokes Code Red by dismissing 350.org as “Communistic.” Sadly, he’s no match for our witty friend Bill McKibben.
Who the hey is Alexandra Kollontai, you ask? Why, she is the author of The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman. Of the year 1917, a time when Bolsheviks were amassing their discontent, she wrote: “One of the most burning questions of the day was the high cost of living and the growing scarcity of vital necessities. Thus the women of the poverty-stricken strata had an indescribably hard time of it.”
Sound familiar? It should: food prices are rising and water’s running out in places (Yemen is considering moving its capital since Sana’a is almost bone dry). And worldwide men and women are putting down their, ahem, collective foot. So it’s familiar, but it’s not 1917. Instead, we are fully ensconced in a decidedly warmer 2011, surrounded by people who dangerously refuse the facts, people like the incendiary Glenn Beck.
