Politics need bogey men, people need solutions

An illustration of this can be seen in this article at Politico.  Instead of actually attempting to implement an agenda that will do what they claim that they are for, these people look for enemies to demonize in order to cast blame on their own failure to do the same.

“For progressives confused at the heated opposition to their do-gooder agenda, the Kochs became convenient scapegoats,” asserts the Weekly Standard’s Matthew Continetti this week in a long cover story defending the Kochs. Liberals in the media have “ascribed every bad thing under the sun to the brothers and their checkbooks. Pollution, the Tea Party, global warming denial—the Kochs were responsible,” Continetti writes, asserting that in recent months “whenever you turned on MSNBC or clicked on the Huffington Post you’d see the Kochs described in terms more applicable to Lex Luthor and General Zod.”

 Instead of finding a way to implement an agenda that may reduce carbon dioxide emissions, these guys worry about the Koch brothers.  If they would just find a economic winner in terms of an energy source that wasn't a fossil fuel, the argument would be over.  It doesn't help them to support higher energy prices as a way make uneconomic energy sources more attractive by comparison.

If the new energy source created jobs, reduced the deficit, improved the living standards of everyone, raised the middle class, leveled the economic playing field, it would do everything they say that they are for.  But, for some reason, they are not interested in that.   Nope, they are more interested in finding bogey men to rationalize their failures.