The Democrat party is the party of death, but they are also the party of fear, and one of the more recent terms to join their lexicon is forever chemicals. Anything that gets into your body accumulates and never leaves, like Democrat Socialism.
I was reminded of this when a Boston Herald headline popped up in the daily pile of emails. “US states including Vermont and California consider ban on cosmetics with ‘forever chemicals’.” For those new to the question, everything has the potential to cause harm, even things that can do great good, but the dose makes the poison. There is, for example, no evidence of which I am aware that PFOA or PFAS are forever chemicals, but they can lead to cancer in high enough concentrations, so the left uses them to make your water so expensive that you are forced to use less.
Use less came before “it’s a forever chemical,” and we know the Ruling Class, led by Democrats, could care less about your water quality. Flint, Michigan, The Colorado River contamination, East Palestine. It’s politics first for them in every instance.
A parallel example is energy prices and emissions. Driving prices up forces people to use less, and offshoring emissions makes it look like they care. But both instances are about control.
So what about the Boston Herald Headline? States like California and Vermont (same state, different sides of the country) have a burning desire to regulate, and the cosmetics industry is an enormous target.
In Vermont, the state Senate gave final approval this week to legislation that would prohibit manufacturers and suppliers from selling or distributing any cosmetics or menstrual products in the state that have perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, as well as a number of other chemicals including lead and formaldehyde.
The products include shampoo, makeup, deodorant, sunscreen, hair dyes and more, said state Sen. Terry Williams, a Republican, and member of the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare. …
“We must stop importing dangerous chemicals like PFAS into our state so we can prevent the harms they are causing up and down the supply chain — from their production and use to their disposal,” Lauren Hierl, executive director of Vermont Conservation Voters, said in a statement.
This is based on assumptions put forth by the politically compromised EPA, complete with the forever chemical label. But there’s no proof of that. Yes, significant exposure presents some risk of cancer, but workers who handle the stuff have never had any higher incidence of cancer than those who don’t, and I’ve yet to see any research that contradicts that. But let’s run with it, shall we?
Hormone blockers given to pre-pubescent kids will forever alter their biology. Surgical interventions that remove or replace sex parts are forever. The sort of government that Democrats want is forever – even suggesting a reduction in growth is labeled a drastic cut in funding, and nothing they erect ever goes away.
The COVID vaccines may be, for many, a forever chemical.
But if ever there was a thing that represented a danger to life, liberty, and happiness (forever), it is progressive governance. Democrat rule is the biggest threat to your longevity and quality of life.
So what’s the answer? Education. Democrats seem to think they have a monopoly on that, so teach, don’t regulate. Tell people you think this stuff might be dangerous and why, then let them assume the risk. It’s how free and open societies work things out, and if we are being honest, the government’s track record in determining what is safe and effective is lousy.
But that comes with risks. Open debate allows other details some time at the podium. And it abrogates the true mission; their busybody obsession with control and the desire to grow government at every opportunity to ensure it.
It’s a sure sign that you need to be wary. The moment the “experts” and their Deep State presstitutes in the media try to squelch opposing ideas, it’s a scam.
