The Babbling Brooks of the NYT Babbles about Changes He Can ‘Believe’ In.

As we read the NYT—aka the Walter Duranty Papers[1]-- we must always be prepared to bear the harangues of exotic and persuasive grand visions about hope and new progressive leftist government that will bring glory and peace in our time. Problems or any sort, we are indoctrinated, must always be solved by government and we are relentlessly instructed in the urgent need to fulfill the grand social designs of the left. They know the best directions to go in all variations.  Such nostrums and conclusions are tautologically shaped and boiled  daily by the New York Times and today, as is their custom, the Chief Babbler David Brooks,[2] conservative ‘token’ who pretends at objective journalism at the Old Gray Lady, instructs us in change and shares some of his beliefs using some mystical dream format. Let us see what we are offered by the new discussion on ‘change’ and decide whether his dreams are merely wet or if they emanate from a crack pipe.

 Brooks babbles about his dreams for an opener:

“I have dreams. I may seem like a boring pundit whose most exotic fantasies involve G.A.O. reports, but deep down, I have dreams. And right now I’m dreaming of the successful presidency this country needs. I’m dreaming of an administration led by Barack Obama, but which stretches beyond the normal Democratic base. It makes time for moderate voters, suburban voters, rural voters and even people who voted for the other guy.”[3]— Change I Can Believe In by David Brooks November 7, 2008 [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]This link references all quotes in this essay unless otherwise stated.

I have sat, for hours, on hard benches in hot soul-saving Christian tent revival meetings and endured fewer promises than this. The most dedicated LSD acid heads in San Francisco in the 60s [like those who haunted the Coffee and Confusion on Columbus] fell somewhat short of concocting fluffy fairy tales like this one. Not even Timmy Leary could stuff enough LSD into his gullet to even approximate this implausible specimen of an unidentified flashback. The usual description of our glorious entrance into the Pearly Gates reads more like a comic book story when contrasted and compared to this frantic flight into lunacy by Brooks. Similarly, though, those who worked the salvation levers and passed the money buckets in the holy tents are actually closely related in methods and means to the tax mongers that now pollute the now predominant Democratic Party. They both want your money in return for promises.  They will pass the hat hourly or even more often. We now witness the vision of some sweeping euphoria in the new Obama Revolution with mantras and ritual that resemble the handling of snakes and speaking in tongues of the religious devotees.  We can correlate strong parallels in this new political hysteria by comparing the promises and expectations to the traditional vision of something like Heaven.

 Brooks, now immersed in the new visions and babbling in the new syntax of obozolistic[4] glossolalia[5], offers us his vision of change, but first he must approach the outer limits of reason and square himself with political reality and confess that few ‘believe’ in government in the egalitarian sense that our Babbler does:

“Only 17 percent of Americans trust the government to do the right thing most or all of the time, according to an October New York Times/CBS News poll. So the members of my dream Obama administration understand that they cannot impose an ideological program the country does not accept. New presidents in 1932 and 1964 could presuppose a basic level of trust in government. But today, as Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution observes, the new president is going to have to build that trust deliberately and step by step.”

It is excessively sad that Hitler, Stalin, Castro and Pol Pot were spared this disappointing study that tends to truncate dictatorial powers. We have apparently slogged through history in blissful ignorance of this fundamental truth.  Here, we seem to be introduced to the notion that trust and dreams are somehow intertwined like the strands of DNA and that trust alone will fulfill the lofty dreams of Obama.

This is unbelievable, but it is in print in the NYT, who used to print everything that was fit to read. They dropped that sloppy banner.

“Walking into the Obama White House of my dreams will be like walking into the Gates Foundation.”

Not the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation or the Les Folies- Bergère at the Moulin Rouge?

“The Obama administration of my dreams will insist that Congressional Democrats reinstate bipartisan conference committees. “

Pelosi [6]doesn’t bother to include Republicans in their legislation sessions.

“They’ll do things conservatives disagree with, but they’ll also show that they’re not toadies of the liberal interest groups”

Left-Liberals are not simple toadies?

“Most of all, they’ll take significant action on the problems facing the country without causing a mass freak-out among voters to the right of Nancy Pelosi.”

“Then they’ll take up two ideas that already have bipartisan support: middle-class tax relief and an energy package.”

Bipartisan support? High taxes and high gas prices? Now, we get down to the money on the drum:

“By this time, the budget deficit could be zooming past $1.5 trillion a year. The U.S. will be borrowing oceans of money from abroad. My dream administration will show that it understands that the remedy for a culture of debt is not more long-term debt. It will side with those who worry that long-term deficits could lead to ruinous interest-rate hikes.

My dream administration will announce a Budget Rebalancing Initiative. Somebody like Representative Jim Cooper would go through the budget and take out the programs and tax expenditures that don’t work. “If we have no spending cuts, then we’re saying government is perfect. Nobody believes that,” Cooper says.”

There is more mysticism and snake oil in this delusion that we can believe. Those who live abroad have no money left except for the Chinese. We learned a lesson in mercantilism from the PRC.

Let us dissect this fantasy:

[1] The world economy is busted[7] and we are in the early stages of a steep recession or the front end of a severe depression. [8]

[2] The tax-whoring of the vengeful[9] and morally bankrupt social mandates of the left are just beginning. Socialized medicine will be ‘free’ for 60% of the population. Wealth will be ‘spread around.’ Taxes will soar.

[3] Crime will now soar as it did in NYC when Ding Dong Dinkins was elected mayor. Obama will probably pardon Mumia Abu-Jamal. Illegal aliens will be immune to the Rule of Law.

[4] Education will be made to appear as looking ‘effective’ by outlawing standardized tests and passing all students for just sitting around and smoking pot. We will dumb down the polis.

[5] Racial quotas for jobs will reappear as part of the ‘redistribution of wealth.’ We will see Hispanic Civil Rights movements gain power and special taxes enacted to compensate them and Mexico for our imperialism. Reparations will be paid to decedents of slaves and any other victims of American Imperialism.

[6] States like California, New York and New Jersey will be given endless supplies of  money and will not be held responsible for any restraints on spending. These places will be government financed social cesspools of the third world order where sloth, sodomy and sedition are celebrated in the streets and wall hangings celebrate degeneracy.

[7] Small businesses will be severely taxed and regulated out of business. The government will nationalize the auto industry. Inheritance taxes will soar to confiscatory levels in strict accordance with the Communist Manifesto and 401(k)s will be ‘merged’ into the bankrupt swamp of Social Security.

Our Babbler may have woken up in a soaking sweat as he closes with:

“Is it all just a dream? I hope not. In any case, please be quiet and let me have my moment.”

My theory on all of this:

We must recognize that the polis has been sold on the notion that we need a redistribution of wealth and that the rich must give up some of their loot so we can all benefit. The difficulty with a redistribution of wealth is the redistribution of power. A redistribution of power necessarily means a change in the number and types of people who then become the new decision makers and we risk trading those who can manage our businesses and the workings of our society for those who have different views.  Capitalism, the driving force behind our American society works well only in narrowly defined ways and is continually honed and sharpened by sound business logic, success orientation and rewards for success.  The most talented gravitate to the top of the capitalist pyramid. Failure in capitalism is punished by terminating employees and closing failed corporations. Other forms of society have no mechanism for addressing failure. Grotesque social programs that work in the reverse sense of what they were intended to be seem to become static but continue to devour taxes and other resources and cannot be easily abated. Failure in leftist government is not treated as such and those who make massive mistakes are frequently promoted to positions of higher power. Other non-capitalist forms of government and command-economy  businesses work in less efficient ways and we have yet to see  any comparable success in the leftist governments when matched up against capitalism and we see and nothing but failure and terror in the Marxist versions. My conclusion here is that if traditional capitalism and markets are controlled by those who are inept (or vindictive) in business acumen then our economy will crash. This will lead to depression and revolts and perhaps a revolution. In the final analysis, we have to concede the lesson of history that capitalism is an intrinsic attribute of humans although only given to a few and capitalism will reemerge from any social chaos.

The 7 points above are not parts of my dream--they are my nightmare. We are all going to have to experience most of these moments until the voters find out what race-based anti-capitalism and this new socialism are all about. The slavering liberals now haunting new heights of power will destroy any trust we might have in obozomania[10] with stark evidence of failure.  The Second Civil War may start soon.

Our Babbler may never see his dreams fulfilled but we may experience some of our nightmares.

rycK

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