Sunday, October 19, 2014

The agenda is never the issue the Freedom-Haters claim it is

Berkeley, California is about to vote on a one-percent tax on soft drinks.

Do you think the pro-tyranny-and-decline overlords are concerned about the health of the cattle-masses?

Of course not:

. . .  it has little or nothing to do with sugar levels in soda or public health and safety. The fact is, progressives are tired of being kicked around by capitalists and they are spoiling for a win against Big Soda.
This will definitely be a turning point,” said Mayor Tom Bates of Berkeley, sitting in his office at City Hall after returning from a vacation to find his television flickering with advertisements and his mailbox stuffed with fliers opposing the initiative. “If it can’t pass in Berkeley, where is it going to pass? Honest to God, if they can stop us here, they can stop us anywhere. And they know that.”

And check out the Mayor's attitude.  You probably have run across it in your own exchanges.  I know that occasionally, in the course of a Facebook snit with an FHer, she or he will try to pull rank by trotting out a litany of her or his degrees.

The Mayor went on to toss out some other revealing comments concerning how Berkeley has more Ph.D.s than anyplace in the United States except Cambridge and how it’s a very intelligent community. The inference is clear and nothing we haven’t heard before. Elite professors know what’s better for people living in the real world and anyone who disagrees is stupid. Also showing up as a repeating theme is the fact that those most affected by such a tax – specifically the aforementioned poor people who largely lack sheepskins with a lot of letters on them – just don’t know what’s good for them. What they want, in the end, doesn’t really matter, so Bates will substitute his opinion for theirs in the interest of saving them.

Let's all hoist a full-strength Coca-Cola to the bitter clingers of flyover country. They are the ones who will give this country a shot at being restored as the United States of America in a few weeks.

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