Anyone who’s
been around babies knows the game where you place an object in front of a baby
and the baby throws the object on the floor so that he may have the pleasure of
watching you pick it up. The baby never
tires of this delightful game, because it marks the point in a child’s life
where he first understands what it feels like to have power. The game goes on indefinitely unless and until
the adult refuses to play, at which point the baby will scream and so begins the
real test of who is actually in charge.
Fast forward
to adulthood and unfortunately it turns out that some babies never quite grow
up. Oh they grow facial hair and sprout
breasts and all that but alas that pretty much sums up their journey to
adulthood. While others grow up and
realize that the earth does not revolve around them, these arrested individuals
– let’s just go ahead and call them liberals – can think of nothing but their
own egos. Regardless of age they have
not outgrown the sense of pleasure that comes from forcing others to bend to
their will. Consequently they spend an
inordinate amount of time and effort crusading for the most unlikely
causes.
They sue to
make parents and vets take down crosses memorializing their dead loved ones (“American
Atheists Sue Over World Trade Center Cross” ˜Abc News; “Grieving California mom takes down cross on
road after group’s protest, more appear” ˜Fox News).
They sue, boycott
and otherwise bully to turn St. Patrick’s Day parades into LGBT propagandafests
(“Gay rights politics get in the way of St. Patrick’s Day parades” ˜The Washington Post).
They sue and
bully towns and organizations to take away symbols of Christmas (“Man Sues to
Eliminate Christmas” ˜ABC News).
They sue to
protect obscure species of rodents, fish and bugs (“Lawsuit Launched Over Water Project That Will Hurt Endangered Kangaroo
Rat” ˜Center for Biological
Diversity (yes, that’s a real organization);
“Activists To File Another Lawsuit Over Delta Smelt” ˜Wineindustryinsight.com; “Groups file lawsuit over endangered NE
beetle” ˜AP)
The latest game
involves an attack on the food industry as liberals and special interests have joined
forces to demand costly and unnecessary changes to labeling regulations (“Liberal
Groups, Democratic Members of Congress and Organic Food Industry Present
President Obama with Demands for New Food Industry Labeling Regulations” ˜The
National Center for Public Policy Research); “Here we go again — Another California GMO-labeling bill introduced”
˜American Council on Science and Health). Never mind that these foods have a history of
being perfectly safe. Never mind that
food producers already can and often do include this information on their
labels. Voluntary action does not
satisfy the liberal’s inner need to make people do stuff. According
to Jeff Stier, Senior Fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research
in Washington, D.C., and head of its Risk Analysis Division, "Mandatory labeling
of GM foods fails every justification for requiring them: scientific, economic,
legal, and most of all, common sense. [This
is] for the sole benefit of those seeking the labels."
Now, we know why the organic food industry is involved and we know why
the lawyers are involved – money. That’s
right, the almighty dollar. But why do liberal groups and democrats want to
make all these food producers jump through yet more hoops for no good
reason? Because they can, that’s why. They’re throwing stuff on the floor so they
can watch us pick it up. It makes them
they feel powerful. Now they can sit
around in their living rooms, high-fiving each other over their important
victories as they pass around a joint.
Conservative
blogs abound with story after story examining the incomprehensible and trying
to make sense of the hypocrisy and dishonesty.
Undoubtedly there sometimes are deeper motives at play, usually money
and/or the desire to surreptitiously advance an unpopular agenda. But in the absence of a clear motive the
answer is very simple: it’s just because
they can.
P.S.
No doubt the
lefties and the rare breed of rabid libertarian that stalks my blog will try to
argue that conservatives are just as guilty based upon their history of
opposing or regulating things like drug use, prostitution and same-sex
marriage. I know it may seem incredible
to some that behaviors which have proven to have serious and far-reaching societal
implications would be compared to, say, interfering with the habitat of a
certain bug or erecting a cross to memorialize a dead child or soldier but
trust me, the comparison will be made. A
combination of stunted mental maturity and deep immersion into the world of
leftwing propaganda renders some folks incapable of making rational
distinctions. But by all means, let them
make the argument. I welcome the
amusement.
˜CW
