by Frank Miele
Real Clear Politics
The progressive left is hard at work transforming itself into a lovable huckster selling solutions to problems that don’t exist. Think of it as “The Music Man” on steroids.
You know the story of the con man who convinces an early 19th-century Iowa town to invest its hard-earned savings into an imaginary boys band in order to save the citizenry from the imaginary danger of children shooting pool:
Ya got trouble, my friend…
Trouble! Trouble! Trouble!
Right here in River City! With a capital ‘T’
And that rhymes with ‘P.’
And that stands for pool.
We’ve surely got trouble! Trouble! Trouble!
Except the trouble being sold by today’s progressive stand-ins for “Professor” Harold Hill is not about pool, and it isn’t child’s play. But it is most definitely a con game. They want the American public to believe the most blatant lies: