Three Things Liberals Don't Know

There is a great opportunity in this election for Liberals to learn something.  Actually three things.

They can learn these three things from Mitt Romney, and especially from Paul Ryan, if Ryan is freed up to teach the people some basic economics (he may not be for political expediency reasons).

What Ryan knows (and Romney to some extent) and Liberals don't, are these three things:

THREE THINGS LIBERALS DON'T KNOW

1. How to create jobs.

2. How to grow the economy.

3. What rich people do with the money they have left over after taxes.

If Liberals cared (they don't, unfortunately), they could learn these three things in this election cycle.

Why don't Liberals care to learn those three things?

1. Partly, -- and I kinda hate to say this because it inflames them, but it's so true that it's gotta be said -- partly because they are brainwashed.  

Literally.

From public school unionist teachers, media propaganda, and Liberal parents and politicians, they are taught for decades principles of BAD ECONOMICS, mostly Keynesian, but also Socialistic, even Marxist.

So they simply think opposing views are merely swear-words -- capitalism, free-market, supply-side, trickle-down, Austrian economics, etc. -- demonized ideas from demon Conservatives, blah, blah, blah.

I'm not even saying that free-market Conservatives aren't brainwashed in their economics, but at least they're brainwashed with a correct view :)

2. Partly, there is a sympathy for those "in need".

This is understandable, even commendable.

But it invariably leads to foolishness.  Including the foolishness of thinking that Conservatives do NOT have sympathy for those "in need".

It is SO foolish sometimes that it would rather have EVERYONE at an equal poverty level of, let's randomly say "4", than to have 1% of the population be "evil" rich people at a "10" producing an economy that kept even the "poor" at a level "5" poverty.

If you're an economic Conservative, you know EXACTLY what I mean by that last paragraph.  Alas, if you're a Liberal, you're either asking, "What's he TALKING about!?", or merely think I'm insane :)

3. If they learned the real way that jobs are created, what grows the economy, and what rich people do with their left-over money, they would be responsible to act on that knowledge.  

This is often unacceptable to them.  They might be ostracized by their peers in some way.  Students would no longer "care" like their Liberal friends, actors would be denied some jobs, teachers and autoworkers would have to oppose their own unions, professors would have their tenure questioned, politicians would get booted out of their Liberal districts, etc.

I mean, seriously, truth can really mess up lives :)

4. Many have lost (or never learned) the intrinsic value of Liberty.

They consider Freedom an inane foolishness, and therefore not worth voting for, let alone fighting for.

They are Statists in the true sense of the word.  They literally think the savior of mankind is the State, the Government.

And many Christians, to their shame, are perfectly willing to sanction the Holocaust of the Unborn, for example, to the higher good of "The State".

These Statists have embarked on a quest for a Utopia.  And Utopias ALWAYS lead to increased loss of liberty, repression, and eventually slavery (either willingly for those "dependent" on the State, or unwillingly for those who oppose the State, if they're allowed to live at all -- ref. Cuba, for example).

As the laws, restrictions, and regulations pile up in huge stacks of Congressional Utopian Bills with nice-sounding Utopian names, the Utopian common man says, "Yes!", and the Utopian phony politician says, "Come into my web, my beloved slaves", and everyone's happy...except they're not...because they're empty.

They've climbed their ladder to Utopia, and found their ladder is at the wrong wall.  But it's too late.  History has repeated itself.  And they're empty.

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We'll be looking at some of those economic questions in future posts, but meanwhile, I highly recommend a short book on the subject, called Economics In One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt (pretty light reading for "Economics").

Regarding utopianism, I recommend Mark Levin's studious book, Ameritopia (not light reading, but not too long).