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link War on Women Is 2012 Democrat Rallying Cry – Bloomberg.

People may know that when junkies are deep down the road of addiction, they will do anything to get their next fix.  They will betray friends, family and even themselves just to get the next hit of drugs.  Others can see how disheveled and desperate these poor individuals have become and seek to avoid contact with them.  “Poor So and So, he used to be such a nice person”.  Now they reek of desperation and are pitiful souls.  Nothing can be done with them until they hit bottom.

This behaviour has been the operating tactic of the Democratic Party for ages and now they are desperately trying a new front.  The so called “Big Tent” party has over the years divided society up into identifiable segments and pandered to their supposed disenfranchisement from the rest of society.  It is by isolating blacks, Hispanics, gays, union members, immigrants, religious minorities, students, the elderly, the young, the poor, animal lovers and of course climate nuts,  that they hope to draw upon as their support base.  Now, when it looks as if their specious messages have faltered with their core constituency, they want to target women in general and include them in the list of oppressed people. 

This is truly ironic as the blatant misogyny of the party has been on full display,  particularly over the past few years.   When it was all but a shoe in for Hilary to take over the leadership of the Dems, they instead marginalized her and chose someone with no experience, credibility or apparent skill set.  The ongoing vulgar ad hominem attacks hurled against Sarah Palin and now even Michele Bachmann are embarrassingly contradictory to their supposed support of women.  In essence, they are saying, “we support women, except her, her and her”.

Pretty soon, the message can’t be us against them, because there will be no them.  While the Democratic slogan may be characterized as “divide and conquer”, their actions really are more of a “stoop to conquer” strategy.  It will be amusing to watch them try to pull this off as a campaign platform.  If it fails, the pool of oppressed to which they can pander to gets smaller and smaller.  They can always champion left handed people, bald people, double jointed people, those with Rosacea, as well as those who can’t break 100 on the golf course.  They haven’t hit bottom yet.

link Obama Adviser Returning to Chicago To Teach | NBC Chicago.

It pains me to do this, but to use the awkward narrative of the White House, if you lent someone your car and that person proceeded to smash it up almost right from the moment he touched the keys,  would it make sense to take driving lessons from this guy?  This is precisely what this story is all about.  Unable to make the theories of the ivory tower work in real life, Obama’s chief economic advisor Austan Goolbee  is essentially giving up and going back to teaching what is now obviously flawed theory to a generation of naive students.  ???!!! Exactly what is it that he’ll be teaching?  Unless it’s at the Opposite George University, why would anyone pay attention to his discredited notions?

This is all backwards.  What should happen is that people who’ve managed to do useful things in life should then be allowed to go to universities and colleges to pass on the valuable knowledge they’ve achieved.  Instead, we have the situation now where people with soft hands are put forth as experts to solve problems in real life in which they have no experience.  How many swim teachers do you know have never been in the water and teach only by theory?  Here’s an idea, long on irony:   Why don’t we disallow people to participate in government at all unless or until they have real life experience outside of government work.   In other words, no lifers.  College lecturers and organizing mobs in the community don’t count.  At the very least, this will eliminate the windbags who give elliptical answers in lieu of the simple yes or no to a question such as, “did you do it?” 

If the socialist ideas favored by liberals worked so well, why isn’t there a SINGLE instance of such a system working well  in the world?  The policies being favored by the liberal left are so fundamentally flawed because they go against the very prinicples that made America and therefore most of western society successful.   From a nation built on innovation, they want to turn it into a nation of regulation.  In modern ‘free’ society, there is very little a person can do without having it regulated or taxed.   Yet somehow, the cure all for that ails society is invariably more tax and more regulation.   This is like the cure they used to prescribe for a sick person in the middle ages; bleed them.

In some ways, the socialist economists are safer while teaching in their academic ivory towers: at least there, students have to pay to listen to their ideas.  Having them loose upon the real world in a government position, everyone pays.