The Religeous Left

Obama's new ad about Romney's venture fund resulting in a failure looks like an honest ad: These politicians honestly do not understand anything about business. They think that businesses have an ulterior motive of making money, their major function is to employ people and pay taxes. So if a business fails to do either or both, skullduggery must be involved. They do not see the process of growth and replacement, of what is now called "creative destruction." Instead, like the creationist, the left believes there is no evolution, no damage, in business. Every business is born into an Eden and can live forever to employ and pay taxes.

Or perhaps it is a problem with "process." The left clearly struggles with energy; they want alternative energy by fiat. They can not see the development of alternatives. Natural gas is a wonderful step towards everything they want, cheaper energy, domestically produced energy, less polluting energy. But it is not exactly what they want. It does produce carbon. It is against the dogma. So rather than see it as a step towards their desires, they see it as another carbon producer and ignore the progress of the process. They would rather midwife the premature delivery of a deformed new product than nurse the work--the hard work--of developing it. Then again, maybe it is the hard work involved. Wishing is so much easier.

It could be worse. They haven't found any witches to blame. But they do turn up the occasional heretic.