Those darn "Little People"...

What is an elite leader to do? You enact everything you think the people need in order to live out your vision of a universal utopia and what do the thankless louts do? They protest! So how should you react? Charles Krauthammer nails the answer to that question right here.

And promiscuous charges of bigotry are precisely how our current rulers and their vast media auxiliary react to an obstreperous citizenry that insists on incorrect thinking.

● Resistance to the vast expansion of government power, intrusiveness, and debt, as represented by the tea-party movement? Why, racist resentment toward a black president.

● Disgust and alarm with the federal government’s unwillingness to curb illegal immigration, as crystallized in the Arizona law? Nativism.

● Opposition to the most radical redefinition of marriage in human history, as expressed in Proposition 8 in California? Homophobia.

● Opposition to a 15-story Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero? Islamophobia.

Now we know why the country has become “ungovernable,” last year’s excuse for the Democrats’ failure of governance: Who can possibly govern a nation of racist, nativist, homophobic Islamophobes?

Note what connects these issues. In every one, liberals have lost the argument in the court of public opinion. Majorities — often lopsided majorities — oppose President Obama’s social-democratic agenda (e.g., the stimulus, Obamacare), support the Arizona law, oppose gay marriage, and reject a Ground Zero mosque.

And since the liberals have lost the battle of ideas, all they can fall back on are attacks such as these.

The Slavery of Liberal Compassion

Two columnists I truly admire are Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams. Both men are academic economists but write in such a clear, uncomplicated way that both illuminates economic theories for the rest of us and shows their practical application to the problems of every day life.

Walter Williams in particular hates the minimum wage laws and has written about them many times. In his latest column he explains why minimum wage laws, supposedly enacted to help the lowest paid, least skilled workers, actually harm the very people they are intended to help. In particular, he illustrates their discriminatory effects against young, unskilled African Americans, although the points he makes probably apply to many minorities.

As you can imagine, the liberal establishment does its best two ignore Williams and Sowell who they feel have "strayed off the plantation". That would be the plantation run by the liberal Democratic Party of course.