Merry Christmas

First Stephen Colbert. Now Larry the Cable Guy.



This will, indeed, be a Merry Christmas.

As long as my relatives stay out of the gay apparel. Except for my brother, who everyone knows is a flaming homosexual (that one's for you, Sam).

Me. Myself. I. All of us.

This is why we need free democracies and free markets.

Global AIDS crisis overblown?

So we have more money available for all of these needs, from more abundant resources, rather than persistently competing for more finite resources.

Many progressives just don't get this. And the people they seek to help are hurt and die as a consequence.

Zimbabwe should be case in point for all of the most serious arguments for free democracies and free markets.

Zimbabwe's repressive politics and economic policies not only have crippled the Zimbabwean economy. They have undermined the ability to do what the U.S., European nations, and most more developed free economies are able to do: to provide their own funds for their own humanitarian crises.

But undermining a free economy in America also undermines giving to causes like the Zimbabwean humanitarian crisis, AIDS, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and a host of afflictions that the world's population faces.

And, worse, it gives rhetorical cover to repressive regimes like Mugabe's by giving him all the justification he needs for his murderous ways:

Because people must be forced to do good and only someone with a strong hand can make it happen.

There are a million little Robert Mugabe's with the same self-righteous, self-centered, circular, and seriously flawed reasoning all around the globe. In America. In Europe. In the developing world.

All around the world, there are billions of little Mugabe's arguing that people cannot be good unless forced to do so.

And no matter how many of the world's evils are perpetrated by those with power against those without power, we cannot even imagine that, just perhaps, people who do real good in the world do so out of their free will. And those who seek to compel the will of others to do their bidding generally make the world an ugly place.

It is so obvious to anyone who is not rationalizing this nonsense.

In the meantime, people die for our self-righteousness. As they always have.

And as they always will. Until we face up.

And there will be only one person and one group of people who will be responsible for all of this when all is said and done.

Me. Myself. I.

All of us.