News Flash: The Stimulus Didn't Help (But Will Anyone Remember?)

It' shouldn't be "news" for economists to confirm what's right before Americans' eyes:  The "stimulus" was a flop.

NABE conducted the study by polling 68 of its members who work in economic roles at private-sector firms. About 73% of those surveyed said employment at their company is neither higher nor lower as a result of the $787 billion Recovery Act, which the White House's Council of Economic Advisers says is on track to create or save 3.5 million jobs by the end of the year.

And yet there's a recurring, disturbing tendency for leftists to attempt to rewrite history to suit the left's ill-fitting ideas.

In response to the repeated implosion of their misbegotten notions, liberals have to deny past failures by either forgetting them or falsely casting them as successes. Either approach requires the denial of memory and logic. 

So we get a bowdlerized FDR, who supposedly saved us from the Great Depression, when he actually prolonged it. 

We get a sanitized Bill Clinton, who was the victim of a vast right-wing conspiracy, rather than his own emotional and sexual incontinence. 

And we even get a misunderstood Castro, who would have done such great things for Cuba if it hadn't been for those wicked Yanquis and their nasty embargo.

Because the liberal worldview cannot survive in the clear, open air of free and unfettered rational discourse, it moves in a subterranean world of dark conspiracies, in which every failure is first blamed on nebulous enemies (Halliburton, the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, etc.) and later either recast as a success or forgotten entirely. This requires the denial of both objective reality and reason itself. 

For the liberal fabulists in their Ministry of Truth, the past that cannot be rewritten soon finds itself shoved down the nearest Memory Hole, to be consumed by the waiting fires below.

Comments

[Peggy McGilligan]

The "Stimulus" and such are examples of boondoggles and flops that we hear about. Still and all, they get sanitized, reconfigured, conflated and yes: shoved down the memory hole. Considering the complicity of the Left-leaning media however, it makes one wonder what percentage of newsworthy stories ever get reported. I find it fascinating to say the least, that at a time when so much goes unreported or underreported, that the Internet should also exist. The First Amendment serves to level of the playing field. While today's technology gives free speech wings. Pardon the metaphor. There's just something about the analogy: http://theseedsof9-11.com