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I have spent a long time trying to understand the left in America and believe I have had something of an epiphany.
Lately, there've been alot of folks repeating Dr. Savage's diagnosis of liberalism as a mental disorder. Before it became so widespread, I more or less took it as a cornerstone of how to understand the absurdity of politics. However, I have often wondered how people so mentally ill can function in everyday life. From the crazy guy on the street corner warning us of impending doom to Dustin Hoffman's character in Rain Man, it's no secret why we have institutions dedicated to helping them.
Then it hit me, in a discussion on the death penalty that was slowly veering off-topic. Somebody (alright, it was me) remarked that leftists actually love the death penalty but only when it's called abortion.
This dichotomy in particular has always confounded me. On the one hand, we have a person that more than likely has done something horrible. The pleas come in that it's brutal and barbaric to kill this person, even by putting them to sleep like a beloved pet. On the other hand, we have another person that hasn't had a chance to do anything, good or bad. Yet, somehow, it's perfectly fine and fair to kill them by stabbing them in the brain. Going around in circles with that logic for too long could drive one to madness.
The trouble is that we look at it and try to justify how somebody could view it in a positive light. What if, instead, we look at it from the perspective of inflicting the most injury upon Americans?
In this particular case, the left gets to hurt the unborn (by actively killing them) _and_ a different set of random people (by passively allowing them to be killed) simultaneously. You can take this new perspective to other programs too, like the recent Cash For Clunkers. For just $3 billion dollars of our money, big government gets to:
Put 650000 people even deeper into debt in an economy that's reeling from too much of it already. And if we continue to lose jobs at the rate we have since Obama took office, they risk being crushed by that debt.
Take freedom of mobility from 650000 kids and low income buyers by reducing both the availability and affordability of used cars and trucks.
By pulling demand forward, they've increased the likelihood of a slump in 2011-2012 that could potentially put the auto industry back on the ropes. We're already in for over $50 billion on GM and Chrysler (hooray for handouts to the Italians), but now they get to punish Ford too for _not_ taking a bailout.
If the above slump happens, the steel industry and others lose contracts and cut hours. Does anyone think more unemployment and more idling of production helps our country?
Have you noticed the push towards electric cars? Don't buy the hype about reducing fossil fuel dependency! We burn oil and coal to make electricity to charge your car. Plus, the batteries are ridiculously toxic. Score two for mother nature...not!
During the campaign, Obama had harsh rhetoric for coal plants and he's not a friend to nuclear either. With no plans to do anything to increase supply, we're going to put 40 million cars on the grid. The only conclusion is that electricity will simultaneously become less reliable due to constant brownouts and more expensive due to the same largely inelastic demand gasoline has demonstrated for decades.
Although it's related to the last point, this is important enough to separate into another point. What will skyrocketing prices do? Well, we'll have to worry about freezing to death in the winter for the first time since WW2. Seniors on fixed incomes will be hit the hardest and right behind them are (try to look surprised) the poor. If you thought working to buy gas to get to work was tough at $4 per gallon, just wait for $4 per KWH. Watch prices rise as wages sink even faster. And this is all IF Cap and Tax doesn't get passed and make the situation a dozen times bleaker.
Drive everyone who's worried about the burden of the national debt or angry about subsidizing irresponsibility or just plain tired of bureaucracy destroying everything it touches get frustrated beyond belief as they shout at the deaf ears of their unrepresentatives.
You've really got to hand it to them. All that fear, uncertainty, doubt, misery, anger, and suffering for just $3 billion. And it wasn't even their money either!
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