The Real Answer-Repost

The  most frustrating aspect of the continuing verbal marathon about guns and gun  control is that no one is talking about the real cause of our continuing problem  with mass, meaningless murder.

That  means no one is talking about real solutions that will have real  results.

Instead,  we are once again talking about disarming law-abiding citizens, or (more  accurately) pushing government deeper into our lives by diluting the only  document on the planet — the U. S. Constitution — that protects humans from  tyranny.

Take  away guns and you still have violence. But take away our Constitution and you  empower tyrants, both illegal and legal, who will have plenty of guns whether  they are banned or not.

So,  why are we spending so much time talking about a non-solution to such a serious  problem?

One  reason is because the liberals who make up our current ruling class, in a very  significant way, have caused these senseless tragedies, and they certainly don’t  want to talk about that.

How  did liberals cause recent gun massacres? I discussed that in an earlier piece —  “Ban Liberalism Not Guns.” Here, however, I want to address a more important  topic — Why liberals aren’t interested in real solutions to the problem of  senseless, mostly random violence, whether it is perpetrated with a gun or  otherwise. In fact, I want to talk about why they aren’t interested in any  solutions at all.

One  reason liberals aren’t interested in solving problems is because they are so  totally invested in using them.  Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama’s first White  House Chief of Staff, made that clear when he voiced the cardinal rule of  liberalism, “Never let a serious crisis go to waste.”

How  do politicians “never let a crisis go to waste?” They use it to get  elected.

They  use problems of all sorts to get elected by blaming their political opponents  for causing the problem and by selling themselves as the saviors of those of us  whom they can convince are victims of said problem and of the “villains” whom  they say perpetrated it.

And  once elected, they use this same blame game to get their policies enacted,  increase their political power, and enhance their chances of getting  re-elected.

Before  we follow that thread any further, I want to point out that there is another  reason the liberal ruling class isn’t interested in solutions: They don’t have  any.

In another post made the point that liberals were doomed to selling  less (blame, hate, problems) because nothing produces solutions better than  free-market capitalism applied by individuals blessed with a high degree of  individual political freedom. This system, as devised and utilized in the good  ol’ USA, has enabled us to achieve a greater and broader prosperity than any  other society in human history.

As  for what I mean by saying “liberals don’t have any real solutions… to  anything,” consider how well they’ve handled the “War on Poverty” — nearly  $20 trillion spent since LBJ initiated this monstrous government redistribution  of wealth in the 1960s, and the administration tells us 1 in 6 are still “in  poverty.” And how well is the welfare state and income redistribution working for Greece? Spain? The United Kingdom? France’s  Labor Minister, Michel Sapin, recently described that country as “totally  bankrupt.” The UK doesn’t look for economic recovery until after  2017.

How  about race relations? The election of Obama in 2008 was supposed to usher in a  “postracial era,” but today racial polarization is as bad (or worse) than it has  ever been. Anyone who opposes Obama on any issue is tagged a racist, an  extremist, an enemy.

The  energy crisis? Can you say Solyndra and wind  power? And, in spite of the fact that global warming has been revealed to  be a fraud based on trumped up data, liberals keep telling us that there is  scientific consensus on the matter except for a few oddballs who ought to be  thrown in jail because they are Global Warming “Deniers”.

Getting  back to gun violence… Want to bet that limiting our access to guns will reduce  gun violence. It hasn’t worked anywhere it has been tried.

Because  “using” crises is so valuable to the liberal ruling class, even if they had a  solution to anything, they wouldn’t apply it. After all if your entire political  strategy consists of using crises and problems to paint  your adversaries as villains and enemies in order to get people to vote for you,  the last thing you want to have happen is for a problem to be  solved.

What’s  more, because liberals have such a terrible track record at solving anything, if  a problem is solved, most likely it will be solved by the opposition, i. e.  those pesky free-market capitalists.

Then  what?

What  does continuing to elect liberals to run our government get for you and  me?

First  of all it gets us a lot of “solutions” that don’t work.

Even  worse — it gets us a society that operates on the basis of hate and  divisiveness. Can you think of anything worse than that?

Evidence  of this is easy to find — the movie, Django Unchained, provides  an excellent example. So do all the tweets in support of Christopher Dorner,  murderer of four in his recent crime spree. And then there are all those  episodes of “gun violence.”

Continuing  to elect politicians who have nothing to sell but blame, hate, and “issues”  gives us a society in which it pays to invent crises — so you can blame them on  your opponent. Remember acid rain, the ozone hole, the coming ice age, the death  of the oceans, OVERPOPULATION!, and on and on. In every case we were told that  the only way to avert each of these “crises” was to elect liberals/democrats  because the Republicans, free-market capitalists, or America caused them… by  creating More.

Which  brings us to another history lesson.

In  his 1968 book, The Population Bomb, biologist Paul Ehrlich told us  that hundreds of millions of us would die during the 1970s no matter what we did  because we had already outstripped the planet’s ability to feed us and to supply  us with the raw materials necessary to sustain our lifestyle. He also predicted  that, by 1985, so many billions would have died that the Earth’s population  would have shrunk to 1.5 billion. And by 1999, the overconsuming U. S. would  suffer such devastating environmental catastrophes that the life expectancy of  its citizens would have dropped to 42 years, and its population would be a mere  22.6 million.

Instead,  in 2013, the population of the world is at 7 billion and growing, the U.S.  population is over 300 million, our prosperity is unprecedented (At least it was  until we elected the Pelosi Democrats in 2006 and Obama in 2008.), and our life  expectancy continues to rise.

To  underscore how wrong Ehrlich was, many countries now are concerned about  underpopulation rather than overpopulation. Why? Because their “Ehrlich scare”  birth rates are too low to produce the workers needed to keep their economies  running (and to support all those seniors).

What  saved us from Ehrlich’s predictions of doom? The same thing that has saved us  from scarcity and adversity so many times — human ingenuity and initiative  applied within the framework of a free-market economy. This reveals what may  be the most ironic downside of continuing to elect politicians who have nothing  to sell but blame: It gives us a society in which the problem solvers, the  tragedy averters, the producers of abundance are villainized. A society in which  we regularly vote against the people who can solve the very problems that  supposedly plague us.

In  this upside-down process the people who continually sell us less  (liberals/Democrats) end up being the only ones with more — more money, more power, more everything. Barack Hussein Obama,  unsurpassed peddler of “less” is now worth $11.8 million and lives like a  king.

The  best way to wrap this up, I believe, is to restate, in a form simple enough to  remember easily, what continuing to elect politicians who have nothing to sell  but blame, hate, and less gets us.

It  gets us a society that operates on the basis of hate, divisiveness, and  blame.

It  gets us a society in which politicians rise to power by inventing crises — so  they can blame them on their opponents and use that blame to get  elected.

It  gets us a country ruled by a government with a vested interest in solutions that  don’t work. After all, if a problem is solved, politicians can’t use it to get  elected anymore.

In  a society of this sort the surest route to power is to cast yourself as a  victim. As a victim, you become an asset to the liberal ruling class which can  use you to villainize its opponents (because they made you a victim) and attract  votes by casting itself as your savior.

Last,  but not least, electing politicians who trump up problems and use them to get  votes by heaping blame and vilification on their opponents gives us a society in  which those who truly are able to solve problems, create abundance, and get us  out of the mess we’re in are invariably cast as  villains.