Some of my best friends are liberals

One of the mysteries of life is how people who are bright and industrious can have such different approaches to public policy.
I’m not talking about the tens of millions of people who suffer from class envy or are led by the media like sheep. I’m talking about well-adjusted, thinking people.
Part of it is rivalry, similar to rooting for a college or pro football team. We start out following the same team as our parents, and build our position over time with more pride than logic.
Positions are then reinforced by how we filter information and everyday experiences. A liberal sees the guy in the picture above as a lucky Michelle fan. I find it disturbing that a guy in a food line has a $500 Blackberry.
Liberals look out over a world with a few greedy ‘haves’ and a sea of helpless ‘have-not’s’. It’s not fair (by their definition), so they feel compelled to do something. They demand that the government use their arresting power to tax and regulate the ‘rich’. The law of unintended consequences kicks in and the situation worsens, so they keep ratcheting up big government control.
It’s like taking a walk in the woods and seeing a fox attack a rabbit or a hawk swoop down and grab a chipmunk. The well intended liberal wants to help the little guy by hampering the big guy, and screws everything up. If you ignore the occasional unpleasantness and mess, nature does just fine. And like nature, the free market takes care of itself.
I don’t like greed any more than the next person, but I also hate to see people get a pass for making stupid decisions over and over – not taking school seriously, goofing off, drugs, etc. Liberals let slackers slide.
I say live and let live. Quit judging and trying to rig outcomes. Each of us has enough to do making the best with what we got. The greedy and the slackers will suffer the consequences and it won’t be at the hand of social engineering administered by a big central government.