I read a semi-humorous editorial in yesterday's Wall Street Journal decrying the passing of the California-initiated, American fast/muscle car culture.
The author noted how such an icon of freedom, the American automobile, is now being regulated and prospectively redesigned into unrecognizability. The line that I recall most poignantly was,
"And she'll have fun fun fun til' her Daddy takes her Prius away."
Seriously, how did we get to the point where all Americans want to have such a major part of their lives- the cars they buy and drive- so radically altered by governmental fiat?
Suddenly, one party and its president is commanding all Americans that, because of dubious scientific evidence, gasoline-based cars are to be mandated to get certain gas mileage and, in time, probably legislated out of existence.
When did Americans decide they wanted government to decide the type of car they will buy? When did we choose to lose the right to choose to buy a car the gets lousy gas mileage, but has other attributes- size, space, speed, etc.- which we prefer?
How did one election give Congress and the administration the right to take unto themselves our rights as individuals to choose in so many important facets of our lives?
Democrats accused George W. Bush of being an imperial President, but he was nothing next to Wonderboy.
We have true tyranny now. And it's a weird sort of tyranny. The tyrant, once elected, is forcing radical, quick changes in how we drive, heat and light our homes, and use medicine, without resorting to any market forces for any of the changes. Instead, a plea to what's good for all mankind or 'the planet' now supersedes individual choice in America.
It's not a tyrant amassing personal wealth, so much as launching both class warfare and a general socialism on behalf of the dictum that we all should feel empathy for the poorest/weakest/etc.
No matter that such values are the opposite of what built our country.
But, what do you expect when you elect the country's first president from a victim class, because people feel guilty, rather than electing a president based upon his prior accomplishments.
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