Another day of hate for liberals

Today is the day liberals devote to their annual distortion of world history by trashing the great explorer Christopher Columbus.

Columbus was long venerated for finding a viable route to this continent that led to sustained visitations and then colonization.

So it was inevitable that when liberals turned against America they extended their hate to all of Western Civilization, which had given birth to capitalism – the greatest economic system ever devised and an enemy of the socialism that liberals prefer.

Liberal historians spent decades revising history and teaching American students the fiction that rather than opening a New World, Columbus destroyed an ancient civilization that was a utopian dream.

It is all bunk, but there are those who take it seriously.

Although the life of Columbus is not well documented, he was an Italian who had acquired great skills in navigation and believed he could find a route sailing east from Europe to China. He did not prove the world was not flat because most educated people of the time knew it is a sphere but they had not been able to calculate its circumference.

Trade and gold were among his goals, along with spreading Christianity. These all indicated he was evil, according to liberals.

They also deplored his treatment of the people already living in the areas he visited, although he used standard tactics of people in the 15^th century.

But all the twisting of fact cannot change what Columbus accomplished and the impact it had on history.

Happy Columbus Day.

Brave New World

The Green New Deal is the logical successor to the New Deal and the Great Society.
Those two epic failures promoted even grander visions of the Utopian world liberal always promise but never deliver.
Here it is in its entirety:

This resolution calls for the creation of a Green New Deal with the goals of

• achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions;
• establishing millions of high-wage jobs and ensuring economic security for all;
• investing in infrastructure and industry;
• securing clean air and water, climate and community resiliency, healthy food, access to nature, and a sustainable environment for all; and
• promoting justice and equality.

The resolution calls for accomplishment of these goals through a 10-year national mobilization effort. The resolution also enumerates the goals and projects of the mobilization effort, including

• building smart power grids (i.e., power grids that enable customers to reduce their power use during peak demand periods);
• upgrading all existing buildings and constructing new buildings to achieve maximum energy and water efficiency;
• removing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation and agricultural sectors;
• cleaning up existing hazardous waste and abandoned sites;
• ensuring businesspersons are free from unfair competition; and
• providing higher education, high-quality health care, and affordable, safe, and adequate housing to all

Here's what it promises:

Everyone will have everything he needs and wants.

There will be no crime because there will be no need for crime. We will have justice and equality instead.

Millions of high wage jobs will be created magically by the government, for those who want to work.

Blight, pollution and ugliness will be eliminated (as it has in Detroit).

Taxes to pay for all this will be astronomical, probably even unachievable. Yet, somehow only "the rich" will pay taxes. How anyone would become rich or why they would want to is not detailed.

It is all mind-boggling, but perhaps none more than the assertion that "businesspersons are free from unfair competition." What on Earth could that possibly mean? The government will choose winners and shoot their competitors?

The New Deal prolonged the depression, which in itself was created by government. The Great Society consigned generations of people to perpetual poverty and set the stage for today's immigration crisis.

Any more help from the government and we are doomed.