Bloodthirsty Liberal

As usual, BTL beat me to it. His comments on a previous post are brilliant and witty as usual. But I wonder if BTL knows that in the early part of the 20th century, progressives called for exactly what he offers up as a joke. BTL suggests that Big Brother go into black neighborhoods and somehow stop them from having sex. The Progressives didn’t want to mess around with suggestions; they simply wanted to sterilize them. Just another little piece of history that today’s progressives have swept under the rug.. the bus.. I’m mixing my metaphors again.

One of the things that drives me bonkers about the Left is their assumption that everyone else is stupid. Actor Ben Stein, a Republican, remarked to a CNN reporter recently that he has given up going to parties in Hollywood because, “I used to go there, and people would make cruel fun of me and bait me and want to start arguing with me, and who needs that crap?” And we’ve all had the experience of middle-aged friends explaining quite earnestly why we are “naive”. I love that best of all.

Here is a beautiful example of the city of Los Angeles not only telling poor people how to live, but controlling their choices. Treating them like children.

City officials are putting South Los Angeles on a diet.
Restaurant signs glow July 24 in South Los Angeles, where new fast-food outlets could be banned for a year.

Restaurant signs glow July 24 in South Los Angeles, where new fast-food outlets could be banned for a year.

The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to place a moratorium on new fast food restaurants in an impoverished swath of the city with a proliferation of such eateries and above-average rates of obesity.

The yearlong moratorium — which the mayor still must sign into law — is intended to give the city time to attract restaurants that serve healthier food. The action is believed to be the first of its kind by a major city to protect public health.

“Our communities have an extreme shortage of quality foods,” City Councilman Bernard Parks said.

The fast food chains reply:

“It’s not where you eat, it’s what you eat,” said Andrew Pudzer, president and chief executive of CKE Restaurants, parent company of Carl’s Jr. “We were willing to work with the city on that, but they obviously weren’t interested.”

Obviously this is a racist policy. And fascist. It is a terrific example of Liberal Fascism, the title of Jonah Goldberg’s book which explores the history of fascism and the American Left. Underlying the decision to place a moratorium on fast food restaurants in poor neighborhoods is the basic assumption that poor = stupid.

This is the world we’re heading towards with an Obama administration. Listen to The Prophet himself:

“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times… and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said.

So LA is a trial run. Soon we will all eat only from approved lists. I am just praying that they let me keep my morning coffee.

- Aggie