Liberalism and the Progressives are ruining this country with their seductive allure, always claiming to help and to care. I’m not sure if they believe they are actually helping or caring. I am sure that they either have an evil agenda or an ignorant one. Here’s my analysis:

Let’s look at liberal policies and don’t think for a second that liberal policies are the exclusive province of Democrats. Republicans are guilty too. Here goes:

1. Government is a good thing. Now there’s a liberal attitude. Got a problem? What you need is a little more government. Except, government doesn’t function because due to unions and the lack of accountability and personal responsibility coupled with no cost restraints (no incentive to do better), government almost always fails. Just take the post office, bankrupt, Amtrak, bankrupt, social security and medicare, ultimate ponzi schemes, national debt, exploding, the war on poverty, failing, immigration control, failing, Department of Education, failing, Department of Energy (created to become energy independent), failing, etc. When you take out consequences and budgetary concerns, you get sloth and failure. And liberals love government. Strike one Liberals.

2. Tax rates. Liberals love higher taxes. Taxation is the taking of an individual’s productivity, his or her time and effort. It is a seizure of your efforts which means that you are partially enslaved. Taxation enslaves that percentage of your income that you pay in taxes. So, pay thirty percent in taxes, thirty percent of your productivity is owned by the government. That’s a taking of liberty. Doesn’t the word liberal derive from the word liberty? Strike two liberals.

3. The War on Poverty is a farce. In the fifties, the out of wedlock birth rate among African Americans was less than white Americans. Not anymore. Thanks to the war on poverty, money for kids, welfare, food stamps, housing subsidies, the war on poverty has destroyed the moral fiber of an entire class and generations of Americans. Yet, liberals claim to care. But how can they when the facts are so strikingly strong that the war on poverty doesn’t work, actually hurts those it intends to benefit? It is actually an entrapment of sorts. I don’t know how. Again either their evil or ignorant. Strike three liberals.

4. Immigration. The liberals, and this definitely includes some Republicans like George Bush and John McCain, want to provide amnesty for illegal aliens. Illegal aliens are costing this country a fortune in education costs, welfare, criminal justice costs, and job loss. Yet, the liberals want them in, at the expense of our country. They are doing almost nothing to control our borders, well except for killing our economy which discourages illegal immigration. Strike four liberals.

5. Bail outs. Since when did rewarding failure or at least enabling it become good policy? Never. It doesn’t work in a family, a business, a foot ball team, anywhere. But somehow, liberals believe that it works in their world. It doesn’t. Just check out the bail outs of Wall Street. Credit is still tight. Foreclosure numbers are still far from acceptable. The economy is only struggling along. It didn’t work and these guys are considering more bail outs and stimulus plans? What are they thinking? Again, I don’t know other than they’re either evil or ignorant. Strike five liberals.

So liberal/progressive ideology doesn’t work. The facts prove it, over and over again. And yet those liberals, they are persistent buggers. They claim to want to help, and when their policies don’t help, they solve the problem by pushing for more of their policies. Isn’t that akin to trying to use cough medicine to cure cancer and when it doesn’t work, prescribing more cough medicine? It is.

I’ll stop there with the strikes. I could go on forever, analyzing almost every single government policy but I wont. I want to make my primary point. This point tends to prove that the liberals are motivated by power and not by caring and it’s an amazing irony. Here’s the irony of all ironies. Here’s the 900 pound gorilla in the room:

Ronald Reagan pushed trickle down economics. What did he do? He cut taxes and the economy prospered. Interestingly, the tax cuts directly benefited us all, so in some respects, it didn’t really trickle down, the tax cuts landed in our laps. Now here comes the irony. Obama claimed that he would pursue a trickle up economic policy. His words. O.K. Fair enough. Give those on the bottom a break, they’ll spend, and the economy will prosper. That’s the theory anyway. So what does he do? He gives Chrysler, GM, AIG, Bank of America, and other oligopolies bail out money. He uses the stimulus plan to grow government, to save government jobs. He actually gives the money to the top and wants it to trickle up? And he does this with a straight face. Where is that money going to trickle up to? Bill Gates and Warren Buffet maybe? But maybe I’m mistaken, maybe the money given to the oligopolies will trickle up to the poor? Yeah right. See the oxymoron here? Amazing really. The Audacity of Dope.

But maybe not. Maybe liberals are the most selfish of all people. Maybe they know exactly what they are doing? Maybe they really only care about themselves, their power, their union protected job, their government job? For one, their policies don’t work and yet they continue them. For two, their policies actually hurt people. For three, their policies make people more needy and dependent which provides liberals more power to persuade with their false promises of change and assistance. With the irony I’ve set forth above, I do conclude that they really don’t care about anything but power. They want to be on top with all the power no matter how much they have to push the masses down to maintain their relative superior position of power. It’s like, I want to be the richest guy in the neighborhood so what I’ll do is take everybody else’s money and freedom, all under the guise that I care. When I’ve taken enough, I’ll be the richest guy on the block.

I also believe that there are liberals who are not rich, who have bought into the liberal lies, truly believe in them. I believe these folks to be an amalgam of jealousy, ignorance, need and intellectual arrogance. There, I said it.

We need to speak out and confront liberals. They are not all bad people, just wrong people. Here’s a further irony. The liberals I know tend to be the most selfish people in their personal lives, which goes further to argue that they are self interested in a bad way. Anyway, we’ve got to confront them on their illogical thinking, their wrongful beliefs, and their anti-American agenda. Our future depends upon it. It is ridiculous to believe that our preferred future is one that embodies more government control, higher taxes, more regulation, open borders, socialized medicine, and all the other tripe the liberals are selling. It is un-American to desire these things because each and every one of them are direct attacks on the most basic of American principles, liberty.

And that’s my Reetzality for the Day.

Thanks for the read.

Brett Reetz