You’ll remember John Holdren. He’s Barack Obama’s new science czar, who just happens to have written a book advocating forced sterilizations. Forced sterilizations. Yeah, that one.

Anyway, he’s back and coming up with cures to end the supposed problem of American exceptionalism. Yes, really. Apparently Holdren took part in a 2007 interview in the virtual reality game Second Life. In the interview he advocated a redistribution of resources we consume as a nation.

HOLDREN: There has been a strain of what many people call “US exceptionalism” in the United States, the notion that the United States is so big, so important, so powerful, so technologically advanced that it can and should do what it wants. I think this strain is misguided.

Q: Will Americans need to reduce their living standards? Is that politically viable, or will technology [unintelligible] do it?

H: I think ultimately that the rate of growth of material consumption is going to have to come down, and there’s going to have to be a degree of redistribution of how much we consume, in terms of energy and material resources, in order to leave room for people who are poor to become more prosperous.

Wow. Just wow. Ed Morrissey gives a thorough fisking of Holdren’s remarks and even his apparent definition of “exceptionalism”. So be sure to read it over at Hot Air (first link).

We’re going to find that Van Jones wasn’t an oddity amongst otherwise acceptable czars. He was joined by other radical, whacko Obama appointees whom the Obama Administration knew would never get through Senate confirmation.

So the whackos were made “czars”, making them only accountable to Obama, and the administration hoped their personal beliefs would never get too much attention. They hoped wrong.