Great-great-great-great grandchildren are dancing in the streets of the future! This is winning.

U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill shares the joyous tidings:

Now you might hate polar bears so much as to wonder why thinking lower emissions since it requires a prolonged recession is good, but that would mean you haven’t adopted the Misery As Ideal approach of the post-Soviet left. It’s rather simple: higher energy prices are good, higher food prices are good, higher fuel prices are good, greater unemployment and dependency upon government handouts are good, cutting taxes and government waste is bad, etc.

Essentially, claim to care about the poor but work to increase poverty, which in your worldview isn’t a problem to solve but a condition to foster for heightened political exploitation.