Most everyone knows the story "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," but if you don't, it's about a boy who would falsely claim a wolf was threatening his village's flock of sheep. He thought it was a laugh, until a real wolf showed up. By then, the fed-up villagers were ignoring his cries, and he was eaten.
The climate activists are the real-world version of the boy, and while their punishment is not to be eaten by a wolf, it's a far better one: voters just do not care anymore.
Despite all the talk of climate change, voters, simply put, don't care.
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) August 12, 2026
Climate ranks 14th on list of top issue for the midterm vote (at 3%).
Those who say it's a very big problem is the same as in 2016 (~40%).
Not even a majority agree humans cause any climate change. pic.twitter.com/IQYG9xPYmc
"You know, I was schvitzing a lot in the month of July," Enten said. "But the bottom line when it comes to voters, simply put, is they don't care. I mean, look at these numbers. Top issue in midterm vote ... the economy comes in at number one, 54 percent, immigration 28 percent. Look where climate change is. It's tied for 14th ... all the way down here at three percent."
That's all the Left's fault, of course. This writer is 43 years old. She remembers being warned about acid rain and the hole in the ozone layer back in elementary school. By now, Florida was supposed to have been underwater, and the planet should have died off five or six times. Not one of their predictions has come true.
Meanwhile, voters seem to have realized that every "solution" to "climate change" is a communist money grab. They want to take our gas-powered cars, stop us from eating meat, and force us to live in crime-ridden urban areas. In short, every Leftist fantasy is pushed in the name of saving the planet.
When every year is the hottest on record, yet everyone remembers childhood summers being every bit as warm...
— Gerry (@GerryDales) August 13, 2026
And winters being as cold. This writer remembers the Wisconsin blizzard of May, 1991.
This was always a leftwing niche interest.
— AAE (@AAC0519) August 12, 2026
An effort to use moral panic and a "public emergency" to control us.
This is simply hilarious.
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) August 13, 2026
The radical left rammed the "climate crisis" narrative down our throats for three decades.
A million failed predictions later... NO ONE CARES! 🤣 https://t.co/yizfl2bS7G
We do not care. And it's glorious.
Global warming was the hobby of the idol rich and they could get rubes to go along as long as times were good. When people are worried about food and shelter they DGAF about your bougie hipster cause. https://t.co/COdW6PEZLU
— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) August 12, 2026
And when people who forwent having children to "save the planet" realize they've been had, the apathy will turn to anger.
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