Forget Race, I'd Rather Talk About Food

“…all government, in its essence, is organize exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms, it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and all disposed man.” – H.L. Mencken

One longtime criticism of Liberalism is that in many ways, it seems to be out of touch with the middle and lower economic classes. Its philosophy on policy ignores the fact, for example, that a single mother living on SSI checks and food stamps is doesn't concern herself with her family's carbon footprint because she's struggling to feed her children. The liberal solution to that would be to throw money at the problem by raise taxes which puts an even stronger burden on the middle class and poor while the financially comfortable members of the left preach about how they're the voice for the people.

It seems that Nancy Pelosi's greatest (and only) achievement as Speaker of the House is changing the cafeteria's menu. The forums and blogs (also known as those festering boils on the ass of humanity), exploded today in what can be described as a seeping pus of misogynistic remarks, anti-liberal jabs and lots people saying "Do Nothing Congress" ad nauseum in a rather pathetic attempt to be clever.

Critics of Liberalism’s ideals assert that in some ways it seems to be the antithesis of individualism in that it attempts to wrench the power from the individual and place in the deserving hands of the government and the wealthy. It implies that the individual is not cognizant enough to make choices on his own (healthy or not), but that he needs to be enslaved to Stalin-like regulation to truly be free. Don't tell that to the poor (or a Cuban citizen): if you've been living on the government for a few generations it's a bit difficult to be weaned off the teat.

Someone should inform Pelosi that the average American isn't eating gourmet food imported from a country where it has a foreign name as proof that it was grown by the indigenous, hard-working peoples of…wherever. It’s good to want better food for those who work in the US House of Representatives, but it’s not good when your Martha Stweart-esque culinary makeover undermines your political party’s agenda. Like supposedly supporting your domestic farmers, for example.

Pelosi isn’t the first to make this PR catastrophe for the left. Think back to this past summer during Al Gore's Live 8 event, where the average do-gooder lefty flew in on a private jet and planted trees to "make up" for it. Read: It's okay to be bad to the environment as long as you have the money to make yourself feel better for doing it. The conservative pundits had a field day with that, too. It's no surprise that the government in general is ridiculed and that a Democratically controlled Congress has lower approval ratings than Bush, arguably the most unpopular president since Hoover.