How Many Times Does Liberalism Have to Fail?

Mayor Mamdani: a portrait of failure.  Courtesy Newsmax. (Fair Use)

Seriously!  It never works, and they never learn.  Now I’m not one to go around proselytizing on behalf of conservative principles.  I do that on the radio and online and that’s enough.

But if it comes up, what can I do? 

So, I’m in a business office, completing a transaction when I casually mention that Trump lost the tariff case in the Supreme Court.  The sweet lady who had just taken my money gave off that anti-Trump vibe at the mere mention of the name.  Okay, I say.  You don’t like him, but things are pretty good in America.  She doesn’t see it.

I say, remember Joe Biden?  All the inflation?  The high costs?  The open borders?  She doesn’t see it.  I mention Newsom and California; Mamdani and New York.   And I wonder:  liberalism’s record is one of misery and failure.  Why do so many people keep voting for them?

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You can tell them facts from dawn until dusk and they just don’t get it.

I mentioned that this lady I was visiting with is sweet.  She most certainly is and I will not reveal her name.  If she’s reading this column, I hope she will forgive me.  However, she’s not alone.  My best guess is that the political Left comes from a shared emotional reaction to current events, stemming from a background of college indoctrination.  Conservatives come from a real-world place where the past is prologue and is far more practical.

There is an old maxim that contends:

If you’re not liberal when you’re young, you have no heart.  If you’re not conservative when you’re older, you have no brain.

That’s how it was with me.  When I was in college at the University of Texas in the early seventies, I tended to prefer liberal candidates.  As a musician, I played at a rally for Frances “Sissy” Farenthold, an abortion pusher whose policies I would learn to despise later in life.  But in those days, she seemed cooler (remember that term) than, say, stodgy old Dolph Briscoe.  Republicans were too establishment, too buttoned-down for me.  Besides, Democrats were “in” on colleges campuses.

Video:  Frances Farenthold campaign ad.  She ran in 1972 and again in 1974, losing the Democratic primary to Dolph Briscoe both times.

The man I credit with turning me around was Jimmy Carter. 

My young brain was taking in the news, processing it, and spitting it out on the radio at WFAA and then KRLD in Dallas.  I was sent out on the campaign trail as major candidate from both parties stumped through the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.

In the KRLD newsroom, most of the anchors and reporters were lefties.  That seemed normal enough to me.  But Carter didn’t.  I began to realize that what he was saying made no sense.  (Someone from the opposition made the statement that the closest Carter had ever come to foreign affairs was having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.)

As a street reporter in those glorious days of the seventies – we never thought of ourselves as “journalists” – I routinely interviewed the best-known politicians of the day including John Tower, John Connally, Lloyd Bentsen, Jim Mattox, Anne Armstrong, and Ronald Reagan.  Dallas was a big important city and political VIPs were always passing through and looking for free publicity.

I interviewed them all, and began to note that the answers some of them gave were not exactly logical.  I most certainly wasn’t on board with Jimmy Carter’s platform.  I don’t recall ever voting for a Democrat for any important office during my seven years in Dallas radio.

Back to that office and the sweet lady who doesn’t like Trump.

Have you thought about why so many people are renting one-way U-Haul trucks and leaving California for Texas, I say.  I mention that Gov. Gavin Newsom has run California into the ground, and the high taxes and government red tape are so bad that people are flocking to Texas.  She’s listening, but it’s not sinking in.

I try Mamdani next.  I say, the new mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani promised to tax millionaires and give other people free stuff.  But he’s already planning a big property tax on the people.  If he governs as a socialist, wealthy people will move to Florida and Mamdani will have no upper-class tax base to plunder.  She’s listening.  So, I go on.

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States like Texas and Florida are low-tax compared to the blue states, and are much friendlier to businesses and corporations.  You can despise rich people, but they create wealth, open companies, and hand out paychecks.  She seems to think that the rich are unfair because they are wealthy and others are not.  I suggest that college football coaches are rich, and they don’t even create businesses.  I get nowhere with that.  So, I go for the gold.

Under Joe Biden, I say, we had open borders.  Millions of illegal aliens came in and a lot of people were raped or murdered.  We didn’t know who was in our country, or what they might do.  ICE is hated, I say, but ICE is fixing Joe Biden’s terrible immigration policy.  She’s listening and I keep going.  And under Biden, I say, Democrats (mostly, but Republicans did some of it) used the pandemic to spend trillions of dollars, which led to inflation, which fueled higher prices.

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Trump hasn’t brought them down, she says.  True, I say, but once prices go up across the board, they never some down.  Trump has brought inflation under control, and salaries will catch up.  She nods.  The Dow Jones Average went over 50,000, I say.  She nods.  Things are really pretty good in America right now, and we’re all far better off that we were under Biden.  I’m on a roll, but I’ve made my points, and I head for the door.

Will you still vote for Democrats, I ask, as I walk out?  She says, yes.  I get in the car and can’t help but think of the peaceniks in Waco that gather their anti-Trump signs and commandeer an Interstate 35 overpass every week.  They’re all lefties and climate change enthusiasts and they think Trump is a fascist.  They get a lot of honks from passing cars they take as support.  I think the motorists are telling them to go jump in the Brazos River.  And they go on my Facebook page to tell me how great Joe Biden was.

How many times does liberalism have to fail?

What does it take for them to see it?  California is a disaster under left-wing rule, and New York is being pummeled by the socialist Mamdani.  Chicago is a once-great city that now has to use all ten fingers and all ten toes to count the weekend murders.  The Left has brought us open borders, high taxes, massive inflation, transgender insanity, huge deficits, floundering and near-bankrupt states, high crime, overseas wars, and possibly even acne.  Do they love misery?

They hate Trump; that much we know.  And that may be part of it, but left-wing governance was a failure before Trump came on the scene.  Failure is cooked into their policies.  Why don’t they give it up?   Perhaps because it’s trendy to have a transgendered sixteen-year-old daughter that used to be a son, and because wealth redistribution seems so much more compassionate than allowing someone to keep what she or she has worked hard to attain.

On the other hand, healthy brains learn and adapt.  Illogical brains remain mired in college-era indoctrination and seem to think that caring about people not having a job is preferable to actually starting a business and giving people jobs.

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Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom are two of the most vapid, dangerous politicians in America who have each been a disaster for their state of California and for the nation.  Pete Buttigieg may very well be the worst transportation secretary in the history of the United States.  And yet, these three people are the frontrunners for the next Democratic Party presidential nomination.

Any of the three of them would fail miserably as President of the United States, but it wouldn’t matter.  Democrats would vote for them again.

Lynn Woolley is a Texas-based author, broadcaster, and songwriter.  Follow his podcast at https://www.PlanetLogic.us.  Check out his author’s page at https://www.Amazon.com/author/lynnwoolley. 

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Democrats could learn a lot from this book.  If only they could use someone else’s money to buy it.