Democrats are not opposed to doing the bidding of fat cat special interest bigwigs, as long as they are contributing to the proper party. In return for labor union money, liberal politicians are more than willing to try to legislate harm to Wal-Mart. All Wal-Mart does is save lower income Americans some $200 billion a year through low prices on good and services those people freely choose to purchase from the Bentonville Behemoth.
Did I mention that Wal-Mart is also the nations largest private employer of unskilled and entry-level workers? Don't Democrats claim to represent the interests of these "little guys"? Polls show that 84% of Americans say they purchased something at Wal-Mart at some point during the past year. Democrats think bad-mouthing the company is a political winner for them. Thank God for Howard Dean and rest of the deep thinkers at the DNC.
I've noticed that leftists' antipathy for the corporation itself seems to be exceeded only by their contempt for the people who shop there. Damn those people for being so unenlightened. If only they knew what's good for them. George Will calls the Democratic attack on Wal-Mart "Liberalism as Condescension": (ellipsis mine)
Liberals think their campaign against Wal-Mart is a way of introducing the subject of class into America's political argument, and they are more correct than they understand. Their campaign is liberalism as condescension. It is a philosophic repugnance toward markets because consumer sovereignty results in the masses making messes. Liberals, aghast, see the choices Americans make with their dollars and their ballots, and announce -- yes, announce -- that Americans are sorely in need of more supervision by.... liberals.Posted by dan at September 14, 2006 7:05 PMBefore they went on their bender of indignation about Wal-Mart (customers per week: 127 million), liberals had drummed McDonald's (customers per week: 175 million) out of civilized society because it is making us fat, or something. So, what next? Which preferences of ordinary Americans will liberals, in their role as national scolds, next disapprove? Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet?...
...When liberals' presidential nominees consistently fail to carry Kansas, liberals do not rush to read a book titled "What's the Matter With Liberals' Nominees?'' No, the book they turned into a best-seller is titled "What's the Matter With Kansas?'' Notice a pattern here?