I’m not a big fan of Mr. Will’s. I don’t dislike him. He’s a baseball fan so he gets some points for that but all he just comes across to me as the type of grumpy old Republican that made me proud to be a Democrat. He is also completely off base on the Iraq war and subcribes to the “real politik” philosophy” that makes my stomach turn.

This morning though, George Will has a point. Liberals, particularly the people who give liberalism a bad name think they know what’s best for you no matter what you think or how it effects you.
Will’s column at Real Clear Politics is titled Liberalism as Condescension. here is an excerpt:

People who buy their groceries from Wal-Mart — it has one-fifth of the nation’s grocery business — save at least 17 percent. But because unions are strong in many grocery stores trying to compete with Wal-Mart, unions are yanking on the Democratic Party’s leash, demanding laws to force Wal-Mart to pay wages and benefits higher than those that already are high enough to attract 77 times more applicants than there were jobs at this store.

The big-hearted progressives on Chicago’s City Council, evidently unconcerned that the city gets zero sales tax revenues from a half a billion dollars that Chicago residents spend in the 42 suburban Wal-Marts, have passed a bill that, by dictating wages and benefits, would keep Wal-Marts from locating in the city. Richard Daley, a bread-and-butter Democrat, used his first veto in 17 years as mayor to swat it away.

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?

No. The current issue of The American Prospect, an impeccably progressive magazine, carries a full-page advertisement denouncing something responsible for “lies, deception, immorality, corruption, and widespread labor, human rights and environmental abuses” and of having brought “great hardship and despair to people and communities throughout the world.”

What is this focus of evil in the modern world? North Korea? The Bush administration? Fox News Channel? No, it is Coca-Cola (number of servings to Americans of the company’s products each week: 2.5 billion).

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?

Why yes I do. The Liberal establishment keeps telling us they know what’s good for us and Liberals like me keep voting for Republicans.

Others blogging this: Blue Crab Boulevard loves it. I take it WILLisms agrees.

Mark at Decison08 admits being a Will fan can be hard at times.

It’s been a hard slog lately for the George Will fan, as he wrote a seemingly endless series of peaces on Japan (a country that, while no doubt fascinating to many, kind of makes my eyes gloss over - it’s just never been my beat). He’s back, though, with a vengeance, and taking on the ‘progressive’ campaign against business icons like Wal-Mart:

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