Liberals Ruin Everything

The American Thinker ^ | May 16, 2012 | Christopher Chantrill

[Cincinatus' Wife]

When friends suggest that the election in November will be close, I half-agree, with a twinkle. Because I don't think it will be close.

That's because this lot, as the Brits say, don't have it sorted -- unlike Bill Clinton in the 1990s, who knew how to seduce the middle class. It's a point of pride among urban liberals around the president not to understand the ordinary American. It's been this way ever since John Kenneth Galbraith's bestsellers like The Affluent Society taught liberals how to sneer at the ordinary middle class rather than understand it.

Of course, you can be a governing elite and be wrong about everything and still not wreck everything. That's because, as Adam Smith said, there is always a great deal of ruin in a nation, even at the best of times. But when a political dynasty has been getting things wrong for the best part of a century, then the ruin can get to be pretty serious....

Let us rehearse four big things that liberals have got wrong again and again and that are increasing the amount of ruin in the nation.

First of all, there is government money.........

Then there are government entitlements.........

Let's not forget government education........

Finally, there is government morality.......

This rising tide of ruin may not may not combine into the Perfect Flood by this November, but it witnesses daily that the Dynasty of the Educated Elite has lost the mandate of heaven. It witnesses also to the truth that when the people have control of their money, their savings, and their children's education, and when they promote morality through their churches, we can call the result civil society. When they lose it, bit by bit, we call it the road to serfdom, a road that ends in totalitarianism.

[aberaussie]

bttt

[Smokin' Joe]

...unlike Bill Clinton in the 1990s, who knew how to seduce the middle class

That's because Bill CLinton was trying to 'seduce' the middle class, not kill it off like this lot.

[Jacquerie]

. . . when the people have control of their money, their savings, and their children's education, and when they promote morality through their churches, we can call the result civil society. When they lose it, bit by bit, we call it the road to serfdom, a road that ends in totalitarianism.

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

[popdonnelly]

I like the title. I’ve been saying that for years.

[Nowhere Man]

Good one! Liberals have cooties.

[uncbob]

unlike Bill Clinton in the 1990s, who knew how to seduce the middle class.

Total BS

Perot seduced the middle class in 92 and running as an incumbent during peace time with a booming economy and MSM acting as a propaganda arm of his campaign Clinton couldn't get 50% in 96

And since then the candidates he has stumped for lost