{"id":9126,"date":"2007-05-24T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9126"},"modified":"2007-05-24T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T17:20:00","slug":"dim-bulbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9126","title":{"rendered":"Dim bulbery"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Tom Scocca, writing<\/a> in the New York Observer<\/i>:<\/p>\n

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The anti-light-bulb campaign [by Mayor Michael Bloomberg] isn’t creeping socialism—it’s nanny-state capitalism:  a cross-ideological alliance to force-market lousy products to the public.  The left gets to see environmental virtue written into law; the right gets to see the negative consequences of that law fall on individual consumers, rather than, say, the power industry.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nBecause of course, we on “the right” are totally stoked whenever big business is subsidized at our expense.\n<\/p>\n

\nIt is true, of course, that the “right”—particularly its pro-business policy—is often characterized<\/i> as enthralled with “corporate greed”, but in truth, there are plenty of rich Democrats who invest in big business, too, who don’t seem to mind when the profits from the power industry provide a spark to their portfolio.\n<\/p>\n

\nAll of which is beside the point.  Because in his effort to portion out equal slices of blame for the blatant government overreach of an single megalomaniacal Mayor, Scocca obscures the fact that the “power industry” had nothing to do with Bloomberg’s meddling, and that the “right”—which encompasses far more than mere GOP cheerleaders bent on stroking big business at the expense of the working poor—is in general averse to both bigger government and nannystatist policies that encroach on individual freedoms.\n<\/p>\n

\nBloomberg’s idea is one that springs from the minds of the kind of petty despots who, having bought their own favorable press clippings, have come to think of themselves as benevolent philosopher kings.  And the only thing the “right” has to do with it is to point out how wrong it is—and how market-averse is such a ban, which would make it decidedly “progressive” in nature. \n<\/p>\n

\nAfter all, it is “progressives” who believe the government needs to intervene to “correct” markets that continue to buck trends that militate against their ideological agendas.  Bloomberg, for all his GOP pretense, is nothing more than an egomaniac—a man whose successes in life have convinced him that he is in the unique position to dictate to the great unwashed how they should<\/i> be acting.\n<\/p>\n

\nHe’s the King of New York. The best we can hope for is that Abel Ferrara and Nicholas St John will sue him for copyright infringement over the title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Tom Scocca, writing in the New York Observer: The anti-light-bulb campaign [by Mayor Michael Bloomberg] isn’t creeping socialism—it’s nanny-state capitalism:  a cross-ideological alliance to force-market lousy products to the public.  The left gets to see environmental virtue written into law; the right gets to see the negative consequences of that law fall on individual consumers, rather than, say, the power industry. Because of course, we on “the right” are<\/p>\n

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