Thread by @JewhadiTM

Scoldilocks, Or the Story of Greta Thunberg

A pair of Scandinavian leftists pimp out their Asperger’s-suffering daughter to push global warming, and chaos ensues. spectator.org/scoldilocks-or…

Monday was the culmination of a year’s worth of propagandistic proselytization, as a 16-year-old Swedish child with a developmental disability took to a podium at the UN to harangue and insult leaders of the free world over the supposed “mass extinction” that is coming.

The 16-year-old, whose name is Greta Thunberg, suffers from Asperger Syndrome, a condition on the autism spectrum.

One wouldn’t normally expect someone with Asperger’s to be chosen as the spokesperson for a global movement. Sufferers are characteristically lacking in nonverbal communication, struggle with empathy, are typically very uncomfortable around large crowds...

... obsess pathologically about subjects not under their control, and often engage in long rants without consideration for how they will be received. Thunberg suffers from depression so severe she once went two months without eating and had to be pulled out of school.

And yet that’s precisely what the global warming cultists did, plucking this highly susceptible child, juicing her up with all of the bleak Malthusian auguries of an apocalypse less than two decades in the offing, and then featuring her at protest events across Europe.

Congress was subjected to Thunberg’s scowling, then she addressed the idiotic Climate Strike demonstration late last week before Monday’s tour de gripe.

“This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean,” she said.

“Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.

“We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is the money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.”

“How dare you. For more than 30 years the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away.”

There was more. “But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you.”

“And if you choose to fail us, I say we will never forgive you.”

This apparently was an admonition that resonated, as Angela Merkel pledged to increase Germany’s climate-change spending from 2 billion euros to 4 as a response to a “wake-up call” from The Young.

As though The Young have any thoughts on this or any other political issue in their minds that are not planted there by adults.

What we know about this And A Child Shall Lead Them fraud is that it’s the product of a widespread, persistent, and highly destructive indoctrination effort by the global Left in our schools and pop culture, so much so that it has caused mass hysteria among kids.

A Rasmussen poll recently found that half of Americans under 35 believe the “mass extinction” Thunberg prattled on about is coming within 10 or 15 years, despite zero evidence anything like it is coming.

Dr. Michael Hurd, Ph.D., a psychotherapist in private practice for over 25 years and an author and columnist, identified Monday’s antics for what they really were:

“Mental illness — defined as delusions, hallucinations and massively distorted cognitions,” he noted, “should not be celebrated at the United Nations in this way. Is there any doubt left that it’s time to defund this pretentious freak show and shut it down for good?”

And it is time, particularly considering that a generation or two before, these same people were offering up the same cataclysmic prophecies arising from global cooling and the coming of a new Ice Age and attempting to inflict them on schoolchildren.

There are real villains out there … and they aren’t oil companies.

“There will now be two kinds of people,” observed a horrified Robert P. George of Princeton University after enduring Monday’s adolescent UN rant.

“Those who find what they watch on this video deeply moving and who regard Greta Thunberg as a prophet and perhaps a saint, and those who are outraged by what they regard as the indoctrination, manipulation, and exploitation of a child.”