Posted by
john on Thursday, November 06, 2008 12:00:00 AM
The Liberal Plantation is where you are when you reach the end of the Road to Serfdom. It's also the title of a series of editorials published in the WSJ way back when in the 20th Century. It's a place for those who have become addicted to government, or otherwise seduced by the sirens of Big Government. I hope this blog will be a chronicle of the efforts of "liberals" (now there's an Orwellism!) to create a class of dependents whose aspirations have been reduced to awaiting, like hungry seals at Marine World, for the scraps left at the government trough after the princes of the political class have fattened themselves. Talk about trickle down!
Clearly, the Masters of this Plantation have been successful. They've built quite an army of serfs, ready to pledge their undying loyalty, hoping to get a seat at the kids' table. Having no stake in the country or its future (we'll be examining exit poll data from a demographic perspective I haven't seen examined elsewhere), their life's purpose is now to serve, and subsist. Lest anyone think I've got a much better imagination than I do, I have a newspaper clipping somewhere, from 1988, in which the Duke of Chappaquiddick, in an unguarded moment, spelled it all out. Get as many people as possible either (a) receiving a government check, and/or (b) dependent on government for essential services (health care), and/or (c) not paying any taxes. Twenty years later, I'd say "so far, so good".
Thanks for visiting. I'm off to watch The Office.