So, what's a prominent liberal with a brain supposed to do these days?
After all, Robert Reich drank deep of the Obama Kool-Aid. Hell's Bells, he even helped set this bunch set up shop during the transition before heading back to that Valhalla of liberal thought, UC Berkeley. (And, parenthetically, aren't these just the very best days to be working in the University of California system, where the students are rioting at the thought of having to begin to pay for their educations? Well, at least he gets to see all his sacred ideas come to fruition before his eyes...)
Now, finally, it dawns on him that Prez Hopey-Changey, the Great Himself, has no intention of doing anything except continue and expand on the great financial scam.
He's developed Reich's Syndrome, brought on by myopia, the propensity to believe anything preposterous as long as it is propounded by a charismatic Democrat candidate, the utter inability to heed warnings or reason, and the refusal to acknowledge that mathematics exists. Symptoms include a severe case of buyer's remorse, delayed indignation, and the utter inability to mouth four simple words: Damn, I wuz wrong!
One common way in which Reich's Syndrome presents is the sufferer's propensity to write self-righteous articles about how bad it all is, carefully avoiding placing the blame directly at the feet of the people he helped put in power, and pressing for even more governmental expenditures and control over the everyday lives of the citizenry. After all, those four simple words just can't be uttered, even to oneself in the mirror in the morning. It's just too painful, you know... Better just to double down and tack left, full speed ahead.
No known cure, but quarantine and ridicule are known to prevent its spread.
Sympathy for the patient is unwarranted, and ill-advised.
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