Santa Barbara's city government recently criminalized the use of plastic straws. This is a minor annoyance, something we're all used to from nanny-state politicians. But one city councilman, Jesse Dominguez, had a totally honest explanation for why the council thought it necessary to micro-manage our lives: "Unfortunately, common sense is just not common. We have to regulate every aspect of people's lives."
As Steven Hawyward points out at Powerline, the statement "expresses the core impulse of liberalism today." Dominguez, perhaps realizing he had said too much, tried to walk back the statement:
The comment sparked an immediate backlash....... "A few weeks ago I made a string of words in a rhetorical fashion about regulation and they were not taken as rhetorical and that's my fault so I want to apologize.".........Got that? You dummies took me far too literally. I didn't really mean what I said, even though the "rhetoric" was clear, concise, and unambiguous.............Read more
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