Snooty snobs
On rare occasion, elected officials unambiguously reveal their haughtiness and sense of superiority, their belief in their own self-importance and their disdain for what they apparently consider the lower orders.
Such contempt for others is usually inadvertently revealed in unguarded moments wherein they expose their true beliefs, when their mask slips a bit and momentarily reveals their normally hidden persona.
Rarely, however, does a politician brazenly rip off their mask and display their true face for all to see.
But this is just what happened a few days ago when Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono stated that, “her party has a difficult time connecting with voters because Democrats know so much” and “we [Democrats] have to tell everyone how smart we (Democrats) are.”
Wow.
Talk about arrogant.
Apparently, per Hirono, if only this non-Democrat rabble were just a bit keener, these super-smart Democrats could connect more easily with them and, perhaps, bring them to their senses and even, convert them to Democrats.
Of course, Hirono’s outrageously condescending comments typify those of other Democrat bigwigs.
Like Hillary Clinton contemptuously referring to much of the electorate as “deplorable.”
Barack Obama scornfully accusing small-town Americans of bitterly clinging to guns and religion.
Nancy Pelosi referring to tax breaks for average Americans as “crumbs.”
Tom Perez lamenting the malign influence of Christianity on voters.
That these arrogant self-entitled elitists happen to be Democrats doesn’t mean that all members of the Democrat Party are such snooty supercilious snobs.
Just their leaders.
Dick Pilling,
Port Angeles
Editor’s note: Pilling is a former chairman of the Clallam County Republican Party.
Freedom and growth
Human nature limits individual production when government redistributes labor’s product rather than protecting property.
Economic progress occurs when government protects private property, leaving individuals free to provide for themselves, start businesses, create employment and products, and loan to those hoping to improve their own lives.
Democratically elected governments needing to tax are more accountable to citizens than oligarchies, fed through corruption, using foreign aid (wealth redistribution) to increase their power and control of their people instead of infrastructure investment and protecting natural rights.
Heritage Foundation’s Economic Freedom Index comparing economic freedom indicators in 180 countries clarifies freedom’s economic benefits.
Central America’s second-most impoverished nation, Honduras, received $1.7 billion U.S. in foreign aid between 2007 and 2016.
With the second greatest world-wide homicide rate, Honduras ranks 94th freest nation out of 180 nations, scored a 28.2 percent government integrity, and 34.5 in judicial effectiveness on 2018’s economic freedom index.
About 80 percent of Honduras’s private land is without title or mis-titled.
Would $50 billion in aid help citizens ruled by corrupt oligarchies neglecting life and private property protection vital to increasing living standards?
Thomas Sowell reminds that Cuba’s economic situation didn’t improve when refugees left behind their wealth.
Millions of Russians, excluding the communist oligarchy, starved after communists seized farmers’ products.
Farmers stopped producing more than their own needs.
Poverty remains oligarchic governments’ chronic legacy.
Demoralizing wealth redistribution erodes freedom and productivity incentives of the plundered and beneficiaries, undermines the beneficiaries’ self-worth from self-support loss and doesn’t produce lasting economic gains for the impoverished.
Susan Shotthafer,
Port Angeles