Leftism

Time to Play “Who is the Rube?”

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So, why aren’t leftists upset at Obama for holding the same beliefs on gay marriage as  Carrie Prejean? [h/t Instapundit]

Easy, they assume that he is  lying. They think his Christianity based justification for opposing actual marriage for gays is simply a lie to fool the rubes on a hot-button issue. They know he might have lost critical support from left-of-center religious conservatives if he had really stated his true beliefs on the matter, so he just lied about his real beliefs to  bamboozle  the rubes.  

Their comfort with this assumption that Obama is lying reveals a lot about  contemporary  leftists’ mores and their systematic contempt for their fellow citizens. They’re so full of themselves that they believe that the important thing is for them to have power, and that it really doesn’t matter how they get it. If Obama has to lie about his real beliefs about gay marriage then that’s acceptable in the cause of the greater good.  

The only question for the rest of us is whether the leftists know the real Obama better than we do. In other words, who are the rubes? Are they the people who believe that Obama was stamped by a gay-leery African-American Christian community in Chicago, or are they the people who believe he was stamped by the far-left Northside intellectual subculture that supported his rise to national office?  

Time will tell, I suppose.  

Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act as Bad as We Thought

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Remember how leftists mocked when, earlier this year, people warned that the hastily passed  Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act granted overly broad powers to regulate even small businesses and thrift shops? Well, it’s actually worse than people thought. Reason quotes from the the official CPSA Handbook for Retail Stores and Product Resellers:

This handbook will help sellers of used products identify types of potentially hazardous products that could harm children or others. CPSC’s laws and regulations apply to anyone who sells or distributes consumer products. This includes thrift stores, consignment stores, charities, and  individuals holding yard sales and flea markets.

You rarely go wrong in assuming that government will grab all the power it can.  

Killing Cities: Indiana versus Texas

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As I mentioned in my last post, my son and I watch “Life After People” on The History Channel. In the last episode, “Outbreak,” the show used the  abandoned buildings  of the downtown of a major American city as real-world examples of how quickly abandoned buildings fall into decay.  

No, the abandoned buildings were not in Detroit, they were in downtown Gary, Indiana.  

How many of these abandoned areas are there in the Great Lakes region? Most people point the finger at the auto industry to explain the fall of  Detroit,  but what explains the fall of Gary?  

Steel. Gary was founded in 1907 by U.S. Steel as a company town. U.S. Steel built Gary because it was a great place to make steel in 1907. Gary grew because for the next 60 years it was a great place to make steel. Then suddenly Gary stopped being a  competitive  place to make steel. Why?

More importantly, why don’t all regions that lose a major industry suffer the same decay?

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“Life After People”: Environmentalist Porn

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My son and I like to watch “Life After People” on The History Channel. The show is a thought experiment that examines what would happen to man-made structures and nature if humans suddenly  disappeared while leaving everything otherwise intact.  

I like the show but one thing about watching it creeps me out.  

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“As Leftists Mock and Belittle Carrie Prejean She Becomes More Popular Than They Can Possibly Imagine”

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GayPatriotWest:

Do those who mocked her know how nasty they sound? Do they have any sense how people outside the liberal enclaves where they reside will react to such bile?

Of course they do. The main point of the viciousness is not to convince anyone but rather to intimidate critics into silence. This tactic probably won’t work with Prejean, but it will work with most critics of the gay/feminist/multiculti Left who aren’t driven by publicity.