Leftists: “Trust Us: Don’t Look Behind The Curtain”

An Overdue Lesson in Perception

While waiting for the plumber to show up this morning, I caught this video. For what it is worth, I wholeheartedly agree that we, America, have to bring manufacturing back to our shores. A robust manufacturing environment stimulates innovation.

The oft-maligned “military-industrial complex” developed from American manufacturing, and the ideas that sprang from desires to build better mousetraps.

This video is an important lesson about perception.

I am old enough to remember images that leaked out of the former Soviet Union of breadlines, empty shelves, and automobiles that looked good, but barely functioned without bubblegum and bailing wire. It is again time to look behind the curtain–the color of the curtain is the same (red), it is only the symbol on it that changed–to see the facade of an inevitable future.

It is time to retire the cynicism, and pessimism. It is time to again peer with brightening eyes at the wonders that await us tomorrow.