It’s difficult to understand liberals when you don’t live in their
sheltered cocoon of participation trophies,faux caring and feel-
good lies.
Those of us who labor in the real world – who built this
country, who make it work and who defend it – deal with
reality. Most liberals don’t. And that can be baffling, because
when they speak they sound like visitors from the planet
Nimrod.
Now, some liberals do understand the real world. They are the
cynical liberal icons, the ones who know their entire ideology is
a scam designed to wring power and wealth from the gullible.
They are the rich ones who cry about poverty and racism then
gleefully consign poor and minority kids to public school failure
factories by doing the bidding of their unionized teacher
partners and torpedoing educational choice. Their own kids
wouldn’t get within a mile of an inner city public school, except
maybe to swing by in the Mercedes C-Class they got for their
16th birthday to buy some weed from the gangbangers infesting
it.
These liberals are the ones who demand we double energy
prices and trade in our cars for seats on scuzzy busses driven
by union drones because of global warming. The fact that it
never actually gets any warmer won’t stop a liberal from
hopping into his private jet and flying off to ink a deal to sell
his network to some Mideast oil sheik for a zillion petro dollars.
Hard Truth Number 1:
If you are a liberal who really believes that your liberal heroes
actually believe in liberalism, you are a sucker and a fool.
Maybe even foolish enough to let your daughter take a drive
with one across a bridge.
Hard Truth Number 2
concerns the minimum wage and the delusion that labor should
be valued not between those who provide it and those who pay
for it, but by you based upon your own subjective notion of
“fairness.” The hard truth is that you are worth precisely what
an employer will pay for you, and nothing more.
Take it from someone who employs a bunch of people – if I have
to pay more for you at the unskilled bottom of the ladder,
assuming I don’t cut low-end positions, that money is coming
out of everyone else’s raises. Yeah, you warm, wonderful,
caring, and compassionate paternalists supporting raising the
minimum wage are going to pay for it, because I’m sure as hell
not.
Unlike many of you liberals, I started out flipping burgers at
the Foster City Carls, Jr., for $3.10 an hour. I didn’t have one
of those fake internships or create one of those bogus charities
high school kids today manufacture to impress the admissions
flunkies at overpriced, underworthy colleges. I worked. I hated
it, but I learned valuable skills. These skills made it so that
today I don’t have to bag fries, mop out toilets or toil as
Michael Moore’s muffin wrangler.
Here’s Hard Truth Number 3:
If you need government to set you a “living wage,” it’s because
you have failed to make yourself worth a living wage. A higher
minimum wage is merely a subsidy to ensure you don’t have to
put in the effort necessary to earn what you want. I’m unclear
why your failure to work hard, gain skills and not do the stupid
things that lead a 30 year old to be making minimum wage
morally compels me to give you my money.
Next is Hard Truth Number 4:
You shouldn’t have kids if you can’t afford them. A corollary to
this self-evident concept is that you shouldn’t have sex unless
you can pay for your own birth control. Those of us who don’t
choose to live lives of chaos should not have to be taxed money
from our kids so the government can give it to your kids
because you are too lazy, stupid and/or drug-addled to support
them yourself.
That brings us to Hard Truth Number 5:
Liberalism depends on a huge number of Americans being
losers who can’t support themselves. Broken or nonexistent
families are the root of most of society’s pathologies, and they
are also essential to the Democrat demographic model. The
party’s very existence depends on there being a pool of serfs
desperate for handouts distributed by Democrat overlords. If
90% of Americans were self-sufficient and refused to trade
their dignity for a few scraps in the form of various welfare
payouts, there would be no modern Democrat Party.
In other words, your party must keep you poor, ignorant and
helpless to survive. The Democrat mascot shouldn't be the
donkey; it should be the tick.
Here’s Hard Truth Number 6:
Your biggest problem is you. Now, a lot of people resent this
truth – they say it’s “blaming the victim.” But most of the time,
the purported “victim” is to blame. Did you drop out of school?
Choose to use drugs? Have a couple kids with a couple losers?
See, if so, you aren't a victim of circumstance. A victim of
circumstance is someone struck by lightning or attacked by a
gang of thugs in a Democrat-run city. You’re a recipient of consequences.
It’s not a tragedy when bad things happen to people who make
bad choices. It’s a tragedy when we lie to them by validating
their failures and then try to ameliorate those consequences by
taking money from people who did all the right things.
And that leads to Hard Truth Number 7:
This can’t go on.
Lady Thatcher famously formulated that, “The problem with
socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's
money.” And you will. The most amusing argument for raising
the minimum wage is that all this new money paid to people
who aren’t worth it will get spent and gin up the economy. But
the problem with this private sector stimulus idea is a
foundational one: Where does the money come from to pay all
these higher wages? From the magic dollar tree behind Mr.
Pennybags’s mansion?
Liberalism is magical thinking promulgated by cynical
exploiters upon the eternally gullible and the chronically
lazy. It’s a political Ponzi scheme, and today’s participants
are the unlucky marks coming in at the end of the grift.
Liberalism will collapse of its own dead weight. And when it
does, you true believers better be ready for the hard truth
that there is no such thing as a free lunch.
Author:
Kurt Schlichter
(Twitter: @KurtSchlichter) was
personally recruited to write conservative
commentary by Andrew Breitbart. He is a
successful Los Angeles trial lawyer, a veteran
with a masters in Strategic Studies from the
United States Army War College, and a former
stand-up comic.
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