I hesitate
to write this post because it’s going to require that for the sake of argument
I accept the premise that liberalism is a well-intentioned, idealistic ideology
intent on “making the world a better place.”
Really I would just as soon slam my hand in the car door than accept
such a falsehood, but for the future of the nation I will make the sacrifice.
Now to further
set the stage, let’s have a word about truisms.
I’m a big fan of true crime shows.
I’m fascinated by the ways crimes are solved and how our justice system
works (or doesn’t!). Sometimes I will
imagine that I am on the jury, and I’ll weigh the evidence to decide whether or
not I would convict the accused. During
this process I will look for evidence that definitively points to guilt. These are the truisms of the criminal justice
world. If the victim’s head is found in the
defendant’s refrigerator, that’s a truism that pretty much seals the deal for
me.
Certain
truisms in life are like the irrefutable pieces of evidence in a trial. No reasonable analysis can be made while
ignoring them, and yet that’s precisely what liberals do every day. They ignore basic truisms that we know to exist;
truisms that, if heeded, would make liberal policies impossible to sell (hence the
reason they always lie). Here is a
sample of the truisms that come to mind:
Truism #1 – The more you reward
certain behaviors, the more of them you’ll get.
I’d like to
see someone dispute this perfectly simple fact.
Every parent and pet owner understands it. And yet our federal, state and local
governments, guided by the hand of liberalism, can’t spend money fast enough to
reward people for not working, for making bad decisions and for sneaking into
this country illegally; hence the number of people doing all of those things
has EXPLODED. Creating a nation of
thieves and freeloaders does not fall under the heading of “making the world a
better place,” particularly when it’s hardened the hearts of normally generous
Americans who usually don’t mind helping people down on their luck but who’ve
grown cynical and weary from decades of seeing their tax money squandered on people
gaming the system. The truly needy are
the ones who will suffer in the end, so that’s a FAIL for liberalism.
Truism #2 – There’s no such thing as
a free lunch.
Too bad
whoever coined this phrase doesn’t get royalties on it, as it is said over and
over to confront the liberal lie that stuff which comes from the government is “free.” Liberal goodies are all paid for by somebody, of course, but apparently
saying, “You’ll now get free birth control forcibly paid for by your neighbors”
just doesn’t have the same cheery ring to it.
As long as the freebies have to be paid for by somebody, the bill is going to eventually come due, so promises of
free lunches are harbingers of liberal FAILURE.
Truism #3 –People are not careful
consumers when they’re spending other people’s money.
Anyone want
to dispute this? Would government bureaucrats
be spending billions of dollars on lavish conferences, robotic squirrels,
bridges to nowhere, useless studies, benefits for dead people, and of course
the infamous and overpriced Obamacare website if all of it were coming out of
their own pockets? The increasingly suppressed
role of the consumer in healthcare is one of the top reasons that healthcare
has become so expensive in recent decades.
We don’t know or care what it
costs because the insurance company is paying the bill. So what is the liberal response to this
truism? Answer: take more
power from the consumer and give it to the government. FAIL.
Truism #4 – The correlational
relationship between supply, demand and price is a well-known fact.
If you
understand why dog poop is cheaper than diamonds then you understand Economics
101, which means you have no excuse for believing the ludicrous lie that
Obamacare would somehow magically reduce the cost of healthcare, given that demand
would be greatly increased while supply would be stagnant at best (I’ll give the libs that generous assumption so they can
stay focused on the main point here). We’ve
already begun to see the effect of liberal meddling with the insurance and
healthcare industries while pretending that the truism of supply and demand
does not exist, and it is an EPIC FAIL.
Truism #5 – The pursuit of
self-interest is the nature of human beings.
Businesses,
like any other rational consumer, strive to pay the lowest possible amount for
labor and other goods needed for their operations. They profit whenever there’s a large pool of
unskilled workers competing for jobs. This
competition for low-skilled jobs and the pressure it puts on wages is the
worker’s incentive to seek the education, skills or experience they need to
increase the value of their labor and better satisfy their own self-interest. As they do so, the pool of unskilled labor
shrinks and businesses have to offer more to attract good people. This natural system works well until the liberals
start messing with it. By waiving their
pens and insisting that the unskilled should be paid an artificially high wage
because liberals deem that they deserve it, they rob businesses of the right
to pursue self-interest and they upset the natural consequence of that - a
better skilled and more productive work force.
It’s a lose-lose for everyone, and a major FAIL.
Truism #6 –The law of natural
consequences is necessary to a functional society.
Liberals
took away the natural consequences of having children out of wedlock (i.e.
stigma and poverty), and now we have an epidemic of single mothers unable to
adequately support their families. The
welfare rolls and Medicaid, in particular, have skyrocketed and are part of the
growing debt that threatens to destroy this country. By legislating and continually raising the
minimum wage they took away the natural consequences of failing to become a skilled
worker. Now we have people who march and
scream for better wages instead of aspiring for better jobs. By removing or softening the consequence of walking
away from mortgages and credit card debt, liberals have made it harder for
everyone to get a loan. Now they want to
let people pass the buck for student loans they amassed at liberal-run
universities. Without natural
consequences we are a nation of irresponsible freeloaders with little consideration
for anyone but ourselves. FAIL, FAIL,
FAIL and FAIL.
The thing
about truisms is that you can’t escape them, even if you’re a liberal. There is no justice, social or otherwise,
when we reward people for bad behavior.
Ignoring the basic laws of economics and suppressing the natural human
drive for self-interest does not result in “economic equality.” The “liberty” and “freedom” that liberals unbelievably
profess to stand for cannot exist when we amass power in the government where some
take it upon themselves to “spread the wealth” earned by others.
Based on a preponderance
of the evidence presented, there is no way that liberalism, as defined by
liberals, can ever do what it purports to do. It can never be anything but doomed.
˜CW
