Love Hurts. So Do Progressive Policies.

American Thinker ^ | 5 May, 2023 | Jeffrey Folks

[MtnClimber]

I've always wondered why liberals would support legislation that obviously harms them. Tax increases, open borders, defunding the police, weakness abroad, eliminating gas-powered cars — these measures harm most people, including liberals, but as California shows, they continue to garner majority support from the liberal base.

There was a time when the cardinal rule of politics was never to admit to supporting a tax increase. Higher taxes, even on "the rich," hurt everyone because they are passed along from the rich to the less affluent. The electorate understood this, and they punished candidates like George H.W. Bush, who lost to Bill Clinton largely as a result of his support for higher taxes.

Now that has changed. A large percentage of liberal voters seems to have no objection to raising taxes, even when they themselves are the target. These voters are, in fact, socialists who believe that Big Government can solve every problem if only it has enough money to do so. These voters don't understand, or don't care, that government spending translates into higher inflation. They believe Biden's lies — that the economy is improving, that there is no inflation, that America is more secure, that gas-powered engines must soon be eliminated, that there is no border crisis, that 57,000 new IRS agents will make life better for everyone.

The reality is that the U.S. economy is hardly growing, inflation is still at more than 5%, and the Chinese are arming rapidly while America's defense budget shrinks in real terms. Biden's progressive policies have set us on a course of self-destruction. Everyday life is noticeably worse than it was when Biden took office, what with lower real wages, supply chain shortages, higher taxes (many of them hidden from view, like the 1% tax on share buybacks...

[MtnClimber]

They are not “liberals”. They are leftists, socialists, communists as well as being atheists.

[avenir]

"For whoever finds me finds life

and obtains favor from the LORD,

but he who fails to find me injures himself;

all who hate me love death.”

—Wisdom, Proverbs 8:35-36

[sauropod]

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[William of Barsoom]

The object is to create chaos, done with enough subtlety to not lose too many of their low-information useful idiots.

From such chaos, they can form New Government — tilted their way, and locked in permanently.

So far, they’re winning.