This segment of What’s Ahead warns that modern socialists, who know they can control the economy through extensive regulation rather than outright ownership, are waging a weird, unrelenting war against every device that makes life better. Water heaters, portable generators and ceiling fans are their newest targets.

What’s so astonishing is that so many politicians and so-called thought-leaders supinely go along with this dangerous nonsense.

The rationales of energy-saving, cost-saving and reducing emissions don’t hold up. It’s really about more and more government control over our lives.