There are so many things I don't understand the Democrat reasoning for.
Why would anyone with a brain destroy our energy independence.
Why could they not see that without cheap fuel the price of everything produced and delivered would increase causing inflation.
I think they believe the change to green will NEVER come unless compulsion is used.
And they believe it is vital to the survival of the planet - at least, the true believers think that, and some of them ARE actually party leaders.
Hence, pain at the pump, passing laws compelling industry and consumers to adopt green energy.
They believe the optimal environment for people - is within a well maintained city. Hence, the myriad measures to punish those who live in suburbia, and try to pass programs to encourage living within a city.
And it goes on to what you should - or should not be allowed to eat - say - do - all declared for the good of all. And - there are many who BELIEVE that.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. C.S. Lewis.
It's simply the most dangerous kind of government that compels you to do and say things you don't want - "for your own good". It's but a stone's throw from the communist authoritarian justification of "for the good of the state".