I listened to House debate on the way home on the Republican-sponsored bill to build a wall along parts of the southern border. A wall has been built between San Diego and Tijuana, resulting in sharp drops in drug smuggling, human smuggling and trucks full of Mexicans crashing through the border. Republicans supported the bill because it is an easy way to do something concrete (literally) about the problem, and while it fails to do everything, it at least does something while we continue to negotiate everything. Dems opposed the bill because (they said) it was "not comprehensive enough" and (in fact) because it would give Republicans a political victory on an issue Americans care about and because the bill does not create lots of government jobs. Never mind that the people say they want a wall, and that the private sector can get a nice wall built in no time at all, with lots of nifty gadgets too if there's a budget for them. The people are too stupid to know what they want.
Liberals think their campaign against Wal-Mart is a way of introducing the subject of class into America's political argument, and they are more correct than they understand. Their campaign is liberalism as condescension. It is a philosophic repugnance toward markets because consumer sovereignty results in the masses making messes. Liberals, aghast, see the choices Americans make with their dollars and their ballots, and announce -- yes, announce -- that Americans are sorely in need of more supervision by ... liberals.
When liberals' presidential nominees consistently fail to carry Kansas, liberals do not rush to read a book titled "What's the Matter With Liberals' Nominees?'' No, the book they turned into a best-seller is titled "What's the Matter With Kansas?'' Notice a pattern here?
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