Does it really pay to watch lefty sites?

Well, you should for intelligence purposes.  You should know what the enemy is up to.  Besides, is the left really an enemy?  No, I haven't gone softy.  The "left" really is an enemy, but they manage to suck a lot of otherwise good folks in, so we end up with everybody fighting each other, which only works out to the benefit of the few.  The otherwise good folks are the ones who haven't caught on yet, but could catch on someday.  Or, we should hope so.

So, here's my proxy for the left, as she plays the part so very well, the Mahablog.  She has something up called "Why Nothing Will Change", as she puts forward the usual lefty solutions for problems that don't exist, and their solutions won't work anyway even if there was a problem.  Why?  The "solutions" somehow always redound to the benefit of liberals, not for anybody else.

In the case of income distribution, it's typical lefty wisdom for the Maha, as she points out the obvious that we've been stuck in a rut since the seventies.  But for the lefty types like Maha, it's always the symptoms, not the disease.  Income inequality as such, is probably more of a reflection of non-growth than it is a thing in itself.  The thing in itself is the symptom, not the disease.  The disease is a Limits to Growth ethos that the left loves so much.  Of course, the disease can't be anything that they favor, it has to be shifted someplace else.  Or else somebody might catch on, and that wouldn't be good for them.

I'm guessing that the libs are worried that they haven't been able to produce any prosperity, so it's time for some good 'ol class warfare.  The plain and ugly truth, if it matters anymore, is that class warfare requires a static and listless economy.  A growing economy is bad for liberalism.  There's no way to agitate the "masses" so that they can be manipulated into doing some pretty dumb stuff, like listening to liberals in the first place.  So, I think the argument can be made that the left really doesn't mind the weak economy.  It creates a crisis, and they are sure to take advantage of it.  After all, wasn't it one of the administration types that said never let a crisis go to waste?  Especially the one that you made yourself.