Why are Republicans Wrong about Everything?

the feckless and arrogant liberal establishment

vaudeville stand-up and soft shoe...... yet profound

full of hapless, indulgent, childish people who think government has the answer for every problem; it’s not just America’s potential eclipse as a world power because of the drunken sailor policymaking in Washington—

Corporations and Capitalists free reign.

Incidentally, over half the illegal population supposedly came into America after September 11, 2001. That’s to say, they broke into a country on Code Orange alert. Odd that. Even under the panoptic surveillance of the “security state”, certain identity groups seem to be indulged by Big Government. In California one notices that the same regulatory leviathan that thinks nothing of sending in the heavies if a hardware store is offering complimentary coffee to its customers seems somewhat shyer of enforcing its bazillions of building code/food prep/environmental/health and safety rules against ad hoc mobile kitchens serving piping hot Mexican dishes up and down the highway…

This multicultural squeamishness is most instructive. Illegal immigrants are providing a model for survival in an impoverished statist America, and on the whole the state is happy to let them do so.

impoverished statist America,

Someday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer from a muezzin. Europeans already are." "The future, as Steyn shows, belongs to the fecund and the confident. And the Islamists are both, while the West - wedded to a multiculturalism that undercuts its own confidence, a welfare state that nudges it toward sloth and self-indulgence, and a childlessness that consigns it to oblivion - is looking ever more like the ruins of a civilization." "Europe, laments Steyn, is almost certainly a goner. The future, if the West has one, belongs to American alone - with maybe its cousins in brave Australia. But America can survive, prosper, and defend its freedom only if it continues to believe in itself, in the sturdier virtues of self-reliance (not government), in the centrality of family, and in the conviction that our country really is the world's last best hope." "Steyn argues that, contra the liberal cultural relativists, America should proclaim the obvious : we do have a better government, religion, and culture than our enemies, and we should spread America's influence around the world - for our own sake as well as theirs."--BOOK JACKET. « less

A tidbit example of what William F. Buckley once called "infantile leftism"

I call it "pop-neo-Marxism"

You can quote me on that.

Asked how he would help an American facing foreclosure on CNN’s American Morning today, Cain declared, “I would get the government off the backs of the banks.” “Many of the banks can’t do some of the things they want to do to help folks” because of “regulations or the threat of regulations coming out of Washington,” he said.
Asked whether he thinks government has any role in ensuring that banks deal fairly with customers, Cain said “no” because “then you distort the free market system.” Insisting that banks really do “want to help people” but can’t because of Wall Street reform and (bizarrely) “Obamacare” regulations, he said the best way to address the foreclosure crisis is to “remove the barriers that are keeping [banks] from doing business the way they would want to”