Give a man a fish, teach a man to fish

The liberal hatchet job continues against Paul Ryan

Back in the day, Daniel Patrick Moynihan advised his boss, liberal Richard Nixon, that the poor in America were embedded in a "culture of poverty" that made them unemployable, for the most part, and that there was little hope anything much could be done about it.

Between twenty and thirty percent of whites were implicated in varying degrees, along with the vast majority of blacks.

During his presidency, Nixon famously proposed a universal, guaranteed annual wage.

If you can't teach a man to fish you can anyway give him one.

Today the situation is much worse and I would guess, based on his widely known views on political economy, that Ryan's plan is to stop giving poor Americans fish.

Ryan is far more right-wing than Nixon ever was, and wants to repeal rather than add to the accomplishments of a century of progressivism.

But just as they rarely attack social and Christian conservatives for clericalism, liberals rarely attack Wall Street conservatives, Randians, or libertarians for class war.

They attack the former for sexual bigotry and making war on women; and for being old, white, and male.

And they attack the latter for racism, just as they do the anti-immigrationists.

I, for one, am not amused.

Come to that, as to the last, what else can they do?

Try to prove massive, low-wage immigration is not crushing American wage levels?

Try to convince whites they have nothing to fear from being made a minority in their own country?

Good luck with either.

Anyway, the truth is that liberals invoke class war themes a whole lot less than would seem natural for them, given so many of them are so very bright pink.

Conservatives complain of liberals preaching class war a lot more than liberals actually preach it.

Why?

Rich Democratic contributors are much more important than in the past, and if anything are less open to frank avowal of the true rationale for progressive government control of the economy.

And like the Wall Street and libertarian conservatives they want to flood the country with cheap labor and to send factories and jobs out of the country.

Branding Republicans as racists instead of vicious, Gilded Age plutocrats waging class war against ordinary Americans serves the liberal plutocracy much better.

As for Ryan, the supposed evidence of racism is ridiculous.

But that is how they will smear him, nonetheless.