Reader Mail
By Mitch Berg
Joe from St. Paul’s Como neighborhood writes:
Who’d have thought that Democrat efforts since Obama was elected are morality-based, not reality-based?As an economy, we want badly managed car makers and banks to fail and good ones to thrive. But Democrats want to take political control over decisions about their product lines and employee compensation which we all know can’t possibly work as efficiently as the market-based model, which includes both the reward of success and the penalty of creative destruction for failure.
Well, most of us know it…
As a nation, we have too much invested in housing stock and industries related to it. When housing slips, electricians lose their jobs. And with an aging Baby Boomer population, we’re likely to see a major demand shift away from building McMansions toward one-level senior homes. It’ll be a giant shift in a huge sector of the economy.
And giant shifts mean big opportunities – for those who are in the right place and the right time for them.
But Democrats don’t want to support downsizers, they insist on subsidizing first-time homebuyers and continue the CRA madness of requiring lenders to lend money to people who can’t pay it back.
In other words, they want to continue the age-old statist mistake; trying to make things worth other than what people are naturally willing to pay for them on their own merits; houses, mortgages, cars, solar panels, salaries…
As a member of the world community, we want all nations to live in peace – or at the very least, to leave us in peace. Toward that end, we have sought international arrangements to promote stability for the last half-century. But Democrats go out of their way to insult our traditional allies, embolden our traditional adversaries, and ignore the most flagrant kooks on the planet as they acquire the most destructive weapons ever known, all the while apologizing for our country’s founding religion and our past errors.
I used to worry that conservatives equated Obama too much with Jimmy Carter. I”m less worried about that now than I am that not enough people remember the real misery of the Carter years.
It’s the mindset I’m talking about, the worldview that says if person A kills you, it’s an ordinary offense and not really his fault, more a peccadillo really; whereas if person B does it, it’s a hate crime that must be persecuted relentlessly and unmercifully.I don’t know the word for it, but there should be a term that describes a political mindset determined to allocate punishment and reward based on the political status of the actors rather than the results.
Is “capricious autocracy” taken?
November 16th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Aristocracy?
The halt, lame, poor, degenerate, stupid, evil and lazy seem to be exempt from rules that apply to middle-aged white men in the same way that the nobility were above the law that applied to mere commoners.
It’s aristocracy – we just have different people in that class now. Not worse people – can’t make any value judgments of course – just different. Celebrate the diversity!
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November 16th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
It’s majority rule. If the majority of the people are lame, poor, degenerate, stupid, evil and lazy then that’s what you get. Same as when the majority is draconian, rich, greedy, stupid, evil, and Machiavellian. I could go through all of the positive stereotypes of both sides as well, but that would take too long.
That’s Democracy. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.
November 17th, 2009 at 3:51 am
It’s more ‘majority elect’, actually. So no, that’s not necessarily “what you get”. *shrug*
November 17th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
The word “democracy” is not in the constitution.