Category Archives: Social Commentary

If Romney Were President

Or if Bush still was:

Democrats in Congress would be calling for hearings and investigations for each transgression: the bombing, troop levels, and drone policy. Chuck Schumer would hold daily press briefings scolding the wreckless president from behind the glasses perched precariously down his nose. Someone would accurately quote Sheila Jackson-Lee condeming the terrible bombing of the “orphanage in Pakistan”.

But Mitt Romney isn’t president, Barack Obama is, so no one cares.

They told me that if I voted for Romney, the president would be bombing innocent people in hospitals. And they were right!

It’s not about principles, it’s about tribalism.

Income Inequality

What Bernie Sanders doesn’t understand about it.

To be fair, of course, I don’t think Bernie Sanders understands anything about anything.

Related: Bernie Sanders and the fixed-pie fallacy. He (like all Marxists) doesn’t understand that wealth is created, or how. He thinks it’s just something to be magically redistributed.

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Unfortunately for the Marxists, the American people don’t think that wealth inequality is a crisis. They don’t think that climate change is, either. It barely makes the list.

[Update a few minutes later]

Dems appeal to “progressives,” not all Americans.

There’s nothing progressive about them. Forced wealth redistribution is the oldest game in the book. Free markets are what are new and revolutionary.