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I see that a New York city teenager has been arrested for killing the hamster of a younger sibling (no genders were given). The kid faces two years in prison. After Victor Davis Hanson, I would call the speed with which this case was pursued an instance of the “Bloomberg syndrome.” The Bloomberg syndrome, which I think we can appropriately shorten to “BS,” refers to the tendency of public figures who can’t govern their own cities, states or countries to go either cosmic or microcosmic. It’s as though life on middle earth, where the rest of us live, is too difficult, or too boring, for these superior types.
In this case, a city government that can’t track down billions of dollars in waste is right there when it comes to sixteen-year-olds who mistreat family pets. That’s the microcosmic end of it. Conversely, the failed governorship of Arnold Schwarzenegger is admired as a grand effort of green energy and progressive social issues. Never mind the 13% unemployment, uncontrolled illegal immigration, and the closing down of some of the state’s seminal industries.
Bloomberg, who couldn’t manage to get the streets of NYC cleared of snow after the recent storms, still pontificates over fatty foods and second-hand smoke. Now he’s got a new notch in his belt, avenger of animal cruelty. Even Harry Reid is affected by this flight from job description; as the country stagnates and debt mounts to ever more inconceivable levels, he obsesses over whether ending funding to NPR will mean that cowboy poets will disappear.
Honestly, the Democrat Party seems to be the home of Dickens' Pecksniffs. The bunch that once wanted us top stay out of their bedrooms now wants you to stay out of McDonalds.
For liberals, when you fail at your core responsibilities, escalating or attenuating your pronouncements two or three orders of magnitude is imagined to make everything all right again. A sycophantic media culture is usually only too happy to play along with this. If Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin stops dealing with the very real issues of the state budget, and begins to crack down on plastic water bottles, maybe he’ll finally be popular with the teachers’ unions.
