Buchanan Gives History Lesson In “Hucksters”

Posted By: J.J. Jackson* on October 30, 2007

Pat and I disagree on many things. But we also agree on so much.

The scaremongers are not always wrong. The Trojans should have listened to Cassandra. But history shows that the scaremongers are usually wrong.

Parson Malthus predicted mass starvation 250 years ago, as the population was growing geometrically, doubling each generation, while agricultural production was going arithmetically, by 2 percent or so a year. But today, with perhaps 1 percent of our population in full-time food production, we are the best-fed and fattest 300 million people on Earth.

Karl Marx was proven dead wrong about the immiseration of the masses under capitalism and the coming revolution in the industrial West, though they still have hopes at Harvard.

Neville Chute’s “On the Beach” proved as fictional as “Dr. Strangelove” and “Seven Days in May.” Paul Ehrlich’s “Population Bomb” never exploded. It fizzled when the Birth Dearth followed the Baby Boom.

“The Crash of ‘79″ never happened. Instead, we got Ronald Reagan and record prosperity. The Club of Rome notwithstanding, we did not run out of oil. The world did not end in Y2K, when we crossed the millennium, as some had prophesied. “Nuclear winter,” where we were all going to freeze to death after the soot from Reagan’s nuclear war blotted out the sun, didn’t quite happen. Rather, the Soviet Empire gave up the ghost.

But what is history and the facts? Liberals spend their time cooking spaghetti until they can find a piece that will stick to the wall. That’s what they are about and Buchanan chronicles their past claims pretty well.

Will they ever stop their scare mongering? Nope. But they’ll continue to claim that anyone who wants to stand up to tyrants and dictators who have called for the destruction of America and her allies Chicken Littles and accuse them of scare mongering … even though the facts are on our side.

After all, the world is inverted to liberals.

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