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Naïve young voters are pulling the lever for Bernie Sanders in droves. In New Hampshire, for example, 83 percent of voters ages 18-29 chose Sanders. It turns out they like the promise of free stuff, something to which they have become accustomed.
The Vermont senator makes seductive, yet unachievable, economic promises. Kids are conditioned to believe they are entitled and can receive something for “free.” When you catch yourself believing this, keep in mind that Bernie Sanders’ initials are BS. Progressives love to describe themselves as “kind and giving.” They will always magnanimously give you the shirt off someone else’s back.
College kids even have a Bernie Sanders drinking game. When, during a speech or debate, he mentions he is going to give you something for free, you take a drink of someone else’s beer.
The Nazis were socialists. Their propagandist, Joseph Goebbels, taught modern-day liberals an important lesson: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such a time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie.” Obamacare is an example.
As you discuss/argue with your kids or liberals about the two main Goebbelsesque lies Democrats perpetuate, with the help of their kindred souls in the media, use these simple facts to rebut their claims:
• The White House tweets: “Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: #climate change is real, man-made and dangerous.” Days later, Secretary of State John Kerry announces, “Ninety-seven percent of the world’s scientists tell us this is urgent.”
That myth of “97 percent” is based on a paper by a 2009 University of Illinois master’s degree student. Only 5 percent of people he sent questions to were climate scientists. Al Gore channeled his inner Goebbels and started repeating it. Then Obama added, “The science is settled on the matter.” What a stupid statement. By its very nature, science is never settled. If it were, we would be still using leeches to extract blood.
When I got my master’s degree, I did a PowerPoint presentation for my professor of a pie chart of the bars I liked and a bar chart of the pies I liked. My paper was more factual than that kid’s in Illinois.
“Climate scientists” (who cannot get the weather forecast right nine out 10 days), know what the Earth’s temperature is going to be in 20 years? Even if accurate, they say Obama’s power-plant emission rules, which bankrupt coal companies across the nation, will affect temperatures only 0.03 degrees Celsius. His fuel mileage dictates, while burdening Detroit and crippling VW, would have even less effect. They do, however, help his green donors like Tesla Motors’ Elon Musk and the Solyndra crony-capitalist types.
To believe the global warming alarmists, one has to believe: A. That the data collected by climatologists who make money from their predictions are correct and that the planet is warming. B. That global warming is man-made. Keep in mind the Mississippi River was formed in the Ice Age, when glaciers melted and moved south. There were no SUVs then. C. That, by taxing us all, government can do something about the weather.
All three statements require very big leaps of faith, unsupported by facts or reason.
• “Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it’s an embarrassment.” – President Obama, during his 2014 State of the Union address
The notion that women make 77 percent of what men make is another myth. “We need an equal-pay law,” whine Democrats. Never mind that we have had such a law since the 1960s.
If we are to believe that women’s equal amount of work trades at a 23 percent discount to that of men, why don’t greedy business owners hire only women?
Even the Washington Post concedes that, when adjusted for job choices (like teaching), time off to have children and job experience, this gap evaporates. It has happened in my family, where women nobly take time off from jobs to raise a family. Husbands work more, get paid more because of it – and die younger from the stress.
Hillary will make a campaign issue of a gender pay gap, but remember: As a senator, she paid her women staffers less than 77 cents of every dollar she paid the men. Bill Clinton, to his credit, always paid his women equal hush money.
I apologize for the lack of humor in this column. I’m just preparing for Bernie’s mostly humorless world. Under socialism, jokes will not be allowed unless everybody finds them equally funny.
