NYC Democrats: We're from the government and we're here to irritate you

New York City councilman Brad Lander (D-Brooklyn) is largely responsible for the plastic bag fee about to hit the Big Apple. And why is he so gung-ho about it? Because he wants the government to "irritate" you.

This is the Progressive Democrats' raison d'etra, to irritate you.

And of course to signal how virtuous they are.

Do they care if their irritants cause real hardships for real people?

Don't make me laugh.

Hey, they bankrupted an entire industry (coal), putting millions of people out of work, devolving vast swaths of West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Ohio into soul-crushing poverty. Do you really think they care about some old lady in Queens living on Social Security? Her electricity rates have already "necessarily skyrocketed." What's another 50 cents?

Think of how many Democratic party policies have at their core the propensity to irritate us. Which they always manage to say is for our own good, of course.

It's dictatorship of the nanny state.

Progressives always know what's good for us better than we do. Just ask them. It's necessary for them to control us, because then we're busy complying with their mandates and we don't have time to get our own ideas. Once in a while they throw us a bone and we lap it up like good little automatons, because making choices is hard and making good choices is harder still.

Several years ago I actually had a person tell me in response to some new bureaucratic diktat or another, "why should I worry about that when the government has already decided the best way to handle it?"

Then in the next breath she complained about the Iraq war, but the disconnect in those two statements was completely lost on her. The government is only omnipotent when it's doing things Progressives believe in, I guess.

Oh, by the way, those reusable cloth bags come with their own problems. So get ready for an "unexpected" jump in e. coli infections, disproportionally affecting the elderly and the poor, that all the progressive media outlets will dutifully report on but dare not connect with Councilman Lander's plastic bag ban.

And then the progressive virtue signalers will mandate cloth bag testing stations, manned by unionized government workers, who'll issue Certificates Of Cleanliness that must be exchanged for your groceries. Sure that'll cost a lot, but it'll save lives and you didn't think the government wasn't going to protect you, right?

Posted at 13:47 by Chris Wysocki   [/democrats]   Comments | Perm Link |
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