Stop them if you've heard this before

**Updated: See end of post**

There’s that old saying that goes something like “those who don’t learn from history are destined to go in to politics”. The problem with history is that, the way it is taught in most schoolrooms, it is so boring as to make a student look forward to English class. Another problem is that as time goes by there seems to be more of it to learn.

There is another saying that says “history belongs to the victors”. The very idea that history may not actually be historically accurate is disturbing but we can talk about that another time. For now I am going to hold to the fact that Greta Garbo, Betty Grable and Audrey Hepburn were in fact hot.

As just announced by The One, come January our country is going to be bellying up to the political poker table for a round of new “New Deal” gambles that will make the old New Deal look like an office football pool. For decades, we’ve been taught that the New Deal brought us out of recession and put the United States on a winning streak. The truth may be that just the opposite happened. The New Deal prolonged the depression. I guess time does change everything. Where is a good history teacher when you need one?

Sometimes people fail to see the lessons in more recent history. San Francisco is scenic, vibrant and full of wackos. If there is a far left, anti-capitalist, hate George W. Bush position to be found, it will be found in the city by the bay and with enough people behind it to put it to a public ballot. In addition to being home to not so family friendly events like the Folsom Street Fair and the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgendered Pride Parade, the city where so many bleeding hearts have been left is full of bath houses, porno shops, massage parlors and is a place where the homeless have voice mail.

The tolerant in this town recently tried to legalize prostitution. They’ve already got gambling and decriminalized marijuana; why not go for the trifecta of vices? San Francisco wants to be a liberal nirvana where social injustice is as non-existent as the JROTC and conservative ideas are as popular as the decommissioned vessels that were responsible for keeping the freedoms that enable them to be this stupid.

All San Francisco needs to do is to look at how successful these policies have been elsewhere to see how wise they are being. How about Amsterdam? The similarities between the hedonistic city where they speak Dutch and the hedonistic city where gay couples often go Dutch are amazing. One problem though, Amsterdam has learned its lesson and is turning away from these activities while San Fran is on a trolley car of progressive ideals barreling toward them.

Thankfully there remain enough voters willing to stand guard at the Golden Gate of rational thinking to defeat many of the more radical propositions, but as New Deals are re-struck and the pendulum shifts further to the left, history may once again repeat itself.

Another example of not looking at recent history when making choices was left out of this post because I ran out of beer. Look here and here and draw your own conclusions.