Guest essay by Eric Worrall
You couldn’t make it up – a week ago GOP Governor Candidate Scott Wagner called a young climate fanatic who questioned his integrity in a public meeting “young and naive”.
Now much of the climate activist movement, including Al Gore, are rushing to social media to declare how “young and naive” they are.
Young and naive: GOP candidate says climate change ‘important’ after clash with teen
Candy Woodall, York Daily Record Published 12:51 p.m. ET July 28, 2018
Three words said by a Republican candidate for governor in Pennsylvania have started a national fight.
That fight largely began on social media, where a video of Scott Wagner calling an 18-year-old environmentalist “young and naive,” has been viewed and shared more than 5 million times. The fight has continued on social media with people across the country, including former Vice President Al Gore, saying they are proudly young and naive, too — if young and naive means believing in climate change and holding leaders accountable.
Today, that fight is hitting the streets and knocking on 1,000 doors during the Young and Naive Rally: Our Time to Rise at Acker Park in Exton, where John Fetterman, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor and Gov. Tom Wolf’s running mate against Wagner, will be a guest speaker.
“Our goal is telling Scott Wagner we are a movement of people ready to fight back and take action on climate change,” said Rose Strauss, the 18-year-old woman Wagner called “young and naive” after she asked him a question during a town hall meeting earlier this month near Philadelphia.”We’re taking his ‘young and naive’ comment and turning it into a rallying cry.”
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OMG. 🤩. Star-struck, fanboy, moment- selfie with @rose_strauss at the Young and Naive event.
Rose- 1
Wags- 0 pic.twitter.com/devv9u54dX
— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) July 28, 2018
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Al Gore’s declaration of his youth and naivety;
If being “young and naive" is holding our leaders accountable and demanding a sustainable future, call me #YoungAndNaive. https://t.co/9SfsziEMFm
— Al Gore (@algore) July 26, 2018
The episode which sparked off this farce – GOP candidate Scott Wagner’s response to an unfounded accusation of corruption;
All I can say to Al Gore is, naive maybe, young, in your dreams pal.
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The climate fraud industry was really counting on youth to buy in but alas it is not to be .
Too many years of climate porn hype and enough time to replace fiction with fact just let the hot air out .
Climate fretting has fallen off a cliff because most of the marketing has been proven to be just made up crap .
The MSM media have lost interest in pumping air into an inner tube with ten holes in it and trying to sell
something nobody’s buying .
somehow venal and mendacious are the words I think of when the goracle is mentioned
Only one way to solve the issue. Give her, her opportunity to show she is not (at least) naive. Maybe if she can prove that, she could have a go at the other half of her complaint.
Hardly surprising that Gore claims to be young. Getting things spectacularly wrong, is what he champions.
‘Old yellow-bellied chickenhawk’ might be more apt…
I feel very lucky that I am young enough (33) that young people assume I’m ‘with them’ and listen but old enough that I can completely dismiss their opinions on the basis of evidence and life experience. I point out that before they were born (the mid-90s) there were scientists insisting that by 2010 the poles would be gone and by 2020 the earth would be (simultaneously) a desert and under 20 feet of water.
The longer this charade goes on, the more ridiculous they look and the more their claims are shown to be ridiculous.
GROUPTHINK!
group dynamics !
– huddling together in their “save spaces” where one can’t stand the close presence of THE OTHER.
I think I’d rather have wisdom over naivety any day it has such a lot to recommend it.
Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men,
from men whose words are perverse,
who leave the straight paths to walk in dark ways,
who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,
whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.
Proverbs 2: 12-15
I think the above describes those involved in the climate scam don’t you?
James Bull
When I was growing up, one of the stupidest sayings I ever heard was popular, “Don’t trust anyone over 30”. Back then I knew that with age comes wisdom,(though not always) and that I was, in fact, young and naive, lacking the experience to make good judgments in many situations. Not only that but I saw that most of those my age were, in fact, dumb as rocks and totally untrustworthy.
“lacking the experience to make good judgments in many situations.”
–> last exit Ideologie.
Some things never change…….youth are always willing to give their elders the benefit of their naivete and inexperience.
We are warming because earth is getting much closer to he sun.
– Wagner, old and naive
It must be great to be naïve and proud of it.
Stupid is as stupid does.
“Young and Naïve” huh?
We here in Oz had a Prime Minister who used a very similar excuse to dismiss anything non flattering about her past.
So from my point of view “Young and Naïve” isn’t about holding our leaders to account, it is about our leaders denying their suspect and possibly illegal pasts.
It’s not a rallying cry, it’s a confession that you wouldn’t do it the same way again, just don’t feel guilt about it.
If you aren’t a socialist by the time you are 19, you have no heart. And if you aren’t a conservative by the time you are 40 you have no head.
Didn’t bin Laden say something similar, slightly different, but more or less the same? And every Communist in the world has used alleged ” youth ” movements as a means to take over or stay in power. Just until the youths learn that they’ve made a terrible mistake. Mao anyone? Call Gore the new Mao… not a shred of truth in AGW… how many ppm/v does it take to raise the temperature 1 C? Surely, there must be an AGW believer out there that knows.
People, mostly young folks are happy to gain recognition for anything anti-establishment. Being young and naive, or a snowflake, or even eurotrash is taken on as a badge of honor. They’ve embraced the poem our parents tried to get us to listen to: “sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me” As for me, I don’t care if they call me denier or dumb-cracker-arse – as the saying goes – just don’t call me late for dinner.
“No no, not NAIVETY — NATIVITY.”
“That was CELEBRATE! Not CELIBATE.”
“A snake offering an apple?? I said SNACK.”
Then on the 8th day, He disabled autocorrect.