Dreamworld of liberals

This article from the NYTimes this weekend, tells the reader everything wrong with the liberal worldview.  The author, Ross Douthat, a conservative, makes the point that liberals are now celebrating their electoral win as confirmation of their enlightened progressive view of an emerging, diverse and more equal, better America.  This view is 180 Degrees from the conservative one that the win represents the continuation of the decline of America as a leading economic and social force for good in the world.  Where one sees the liberal worldview in all its cloying preening is in the comments following the presentation by Douthat, all 622 of them, before the Times shut down posting availability.  Reading more than a dozen or so of these self congratulatory missives it is clear liberals are greatly relieved that Obama won saving the world from the retrograde Republican policies of the Reagan and Bush I & and II years.  In their eyes these were years of  untamed, unregulated capitalism that led to income inequality, the destruction of the middle class and all their other perceived ills of America.  Nowhere in these comments was there any mention of the millions of new jobs created during the those years.  Mostly their conversation is about how the rich got too rich.

There are several other observations to make about this liberal lockstep points of view.  First there is no discussion of how wealth and jobs are created, none!  There is a lot of talk about fairness and other liberal nostrums that mostly come down to envy of wealthy, and lots of complaints about lack of regulation and control over the behavior of greedy businessmen.  It truly makes one wonder if these people live in the same world as those of us who work in for profit corporations, or are self employed and who understand that in the commercial world the consumer is everyone's boss.  The so-called overpaid CEO of the large corporation, the greedy entrepreneur who puts up or finds the risk capital to start a business,  the banker who makes a loan to launch the expansion of a business,  none of these individuals has a business or a job if consumers don't buy their product or service.  One comes away from reading their remarks that liberals think jobs grow on trees, or maybe are created by some government programs.  They are oblivious to the risk dynamic that makes a business happen in the first place, and become successful creating wealth and job opportunities for others.  Somehow all this just happens whether or not there are destructive governmental regulations that impede growth by the job creating private sector companies.  There is among these people much talk about taking care of the sick, the poor,  the disadvantaged but no talk about where to find the means to pay for this appropriately necessary societal altruism.  In short, liberals put the cart before the horse,  failing to recognize that only wealthy societies have the means to take care of those in need.  Only wealthy societies have the means to capitalize new businesses that create tax paying employees.  All their ideas on fairness, equality and social justice are meaningless in poor societies.  Their ideal society has been tried many times in the last 150 years but has never worked.  They might read more history before trying to create the perfect society.  Mr Obama is not the answer to finding their nirvana.  It doesn't exist.