Kalifornia

California is preparing to exert control over private home thermostats.

In the old Soviet Union, The Central Committee had decreed that the furnace in apartment buildings could not be started until a certain date each year. Weather was irrelevant, the government said so.


The soviets are no longer around for this populace to fear but their ideology is pervasive, so modern US Committees and Apparatchiks are free to follow in their footsteps without threat of ideological association with an obviously oppressive power.

Those who are a familiar with the Soviet system will recognize the following:

"If you can control rotating outages by letting everyone in the state share the pain," he said, "there's a lot less pain to go around."

Paraphrased Soviet verison : If there is misery to be had, spread it among the poor. For they are accustomed to misery and better able to tolerate it.

One must bear in mind everyone in the soviet union was poor but those in charge.