George Rebane
The ignorant-to-evil needle has made a big jump toward evil in the last couple of days with the MAGA hat massacre in DC, and the shaming of Second Lady Mrs Pence. The Catholic boys in the MAGA hats committed two sins for which the Liberal Lies machine went ballistic – they were Christians and obvious Trump supporters. That was enough to fabricate a hateful story about their racism against American Indians and disseminate a carefully edited video to lamestream outlets who all joined in the howling for the boys’ scalps. When the story was quickly discredited, the howlers just moved on to their next coverage of fake news. The same thing happened with Mrs Pence who was pilloried for being provided Secret Service protection for her engagement as an arts teacher at a (gasp!) Christian grade school. To the legions of progressive idiots that was evidence of violating the separation of church and state. And the Left still thinks that the coming Great Divide is only a rightwing myth.
Nevada County’s Love Walk on MLK day was strictly a one-sided affair. For the attendees to such events, MLK’s civil rights legacy appears to have been a failure. People attending are of a like mind that the country now is more racist than ever, and that extraordinary means need be brought to bear to restore Dr King’s dream, and this time we’ll get it right. To boot, everyone not of this mindset is by definition a racist, and proof that today in America racism rules. In a previous discussion of the ideological tilt of national holidays, it’s easy to see why MLK day is now firmly a leftwing holiday. (Imagine wearing your MAGA cap on the Love Walk. To date we have not bothered to get our MAGA caps, but given what the socialist brown shirts have launched in the land, the time has come to get one and wear it.)
Wanna see quantitative economic projections on AOC’s 70% tax rate for the country? Take a look at the misery that such a confiscatory policy would heap on the middle class. Yes, Virginia, the MIDDLE CLASS, because that’s where socialists have to go after they first cripple the economy with their tax on ‘the rich’. The next inevitable tax, as government revenues sink, will be on the middle class, why? Because that’s where the money is, and the poor snuffies voting for socialists haven’t a clue about their own doings in the voting booth. And how will it be sold? By turning up the volume on the “ravages of capitalism” narrative, of course. (more here and here)
Racism and racist, terms progressives use constantly are among the terms no progressive wants to define. Much to the consternation of our liberal readers, here on RR we are prone to pursue semantics, especially of the operational kind (meaning you can usefully apply them in the realworld). Illustrating this are a couple of forays into this melee ‘Who is a Racist?’ and ‘Racialism Rising’, and, of course, see the RR Glossary.
[23jan19 update] RR readers are aware of my longstanding thoughts on unionized public schools. The recent LA teachers strike underlined all these concerns, and the main concern that union teachers don’t really give a care for the kids as again pointed out by Jason Riley (here) in the 23jan19 WSJ. “When the United Auto Workers walk off the job, no one pretends the care about car buyers. … Yet striking public school teachers and their union representatives insist they are action behalf of the children. We’re expected to believe the priorities of education workers are perfectly aligned with those of students.” The blatant facts about school spending, students’ performance, and aggressive opposition to the spread of non-union, public charter schools tells a completely different story. “Teachers unions are unions first, not reformers or student advocates. Their real agenda – their only agenda – is to protect their members by any means possible. No matter what those picket signs said, the unions weren’t helping students. They were using them.”
[24jan19 update] “Senate Rejects Two Rival Spending Bills, Extending Shutdown” Can we now finally give up the notion that just because one party or the other has a majority in Congress (specifically the Senate), that it therefore ‘controls’ what that chamber does? The Founders intended government’s ability to make laws to be a slow, deliberative, if not awkward process, and the Senate’s super-majority rule of 60 votes helps implement this intent. So let’s pick up a bit on the simplistic arguments in these comment streams about which party ‘controlled’ Congress in what years so as to imply that they could have passed anything they wanted. Sophomoric!
SecComm Wilbur Ross today picked up on my suggestion that the fed workers running out of cash should just go get a loan to tide them over. And he was dunned for making such a practical suggestion. The needy fed workers would not be borrowing more than their take-home pay since that is what they had planned to spend in the first place, and that amount is guaranteed to them after the shutdown ends. That is about the best collateral, save US Treasuries, that you can give a lender who can even have you sign a paper agreeing that the govt submit the loan amount directly to the lender. And the lenders can get extra PR brownie points by advertising that these are short-term no interest loans. What’s not to like? Yet it was only ol’ Wilbur who finally came up with that while the rest of Washington is just sitting around with their teeth in their mouth. It’s almost as if both sides wanted the furloughed to go on a publicized fast. Nah!
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