Young Liberals.

Equality California, a prominent LGBT political action group, has issued a petition urging President Obama to file a brief in the Federal Court challenge to Proposition 8, declaring his support for the overturning of Proposition 8 as an unconstitutional state law. The same petition declares it unacceptable that President Obama failed to forcibly speak out against the recent vote in Maine, where for the 31st time, State citizens have defined marriage as between men and women.

I’m not particularly interested in marriage as a political issue. I am nevertheless fascinated in the constant attempt to recruit President Obama in this battle. Donald Trump and Miss California accurately described President Obama’s professed position on the topic as being in agreement with those who voted in favor of Propisition 8; as well as with the opinions expressed by Miss Prejean.

Interestingly, the Minority supporters of Proposition 8 largely mirrored President Obama’s own Minority supporters: Blacks and Hispanics overwhelmingly favored (a) Proposition 8 and (b) President Obama. President Obama’s historic campaign even spiked Minority turn out across the country last year - where 4 states passed some variation on what may be described as State versions of the Defense of Marriage Act. (That of course was the federal act signed by famed LGBT activist, Bill Clinton, which defined marriage as between men and women).

One could argue that President Obama’s own candidacy caused Proposition 8 to pass by a narrow margin of 52-48, insofar as, Blacks (1) turned out en mass to (2) vote 9-1 for Obama while (3) voting for Proposition 8 by 7-3.

Indeed, this recruitment of Obama by the Gay Rights crowd is truly fascinating, if only to extent that great joy is derived from watching naive liberals find out that, while there is a Santa Clause, he has turned out to be a self-involved street pimp.

Barack Obama’s professed position on marriage is no different from George W. Bush’s, John McCain’s or Carrie Prejean’s. Yet, did Equality California ever initiate a petition requesting the aid of President Bush in their fight to promote gay marriage?

In fairness, it is quite likely that President Obama has intentionally misrepresented his position out of political pragmatism. In other words, he’s a stand up guy. Thus, we are left with two alternative conclusions with respect to Equality California’s perception of President Obama: (a) complete and utter naivete or (b) full recognition of the fact that President Obama does not mean what he says to most people.

Perhaps there is a fair amount of the latter, but I think the protests on Universities of California illustrates that the former is a more likely conclusion.

Statistically, young people lean liberal, voted for President Obama, and support all manner of government spending: universal health care, more taxes for education, more taxes for entitlements, taxes on carbon dioxide and other, em, pollutants…. to pay for green energy.

The state of California has been the playground of liberals for some 40 years now. Our legislature, which passes our budgets and manages our public funds, has been Democrat in both houses, almost uninterrupted, since the late sixties. We now have a $21 billion budget gap. Cause and effect, perchance?

California is unique in that our citizens can vote directly on foolish state bond measure. But this only indicates that there are at least enough foolish California voters who are routinely convinced that the government deserves more of their money to pay for “the public welfare”: i.e., young college students.

Last year, these college students supported President Obama, or as I like to think of him: the most expensive decision this country has ever made. Statistically, they will surely support whomever the Democratic candidate is in California’s gubernatorial election next year.

Now, as a result of California’s mismanagement of the public funds (largely to be blamed on the Legislature) and runaway spending, choices are being made: slash the budget or raise taxes? Raise taxes, cut programs or raise UC tuition?

So, the UC Regents raised tuition: 32% (or about $2,500 per student per year). UCLA students promptly marched across the campus while students at my Alma Mater, UC Berkeley, barricaded themselves inside Wheeler auditorium. Action was taken immediately: 3,800 citations. “There’s the Man for ya! With his oppressive, eh, citations! We’ll win this war yet.”

But do these foolish children not realize that they voted for “The Man”? A part of me wonders what stepping, perhaps just one foot, inside the minds of left-leaning college students would be like.

For instance, what were their opinions on the Tea Party protesters, whom their sexually frustrated heroes Keith Olberman, Rachel Maddow and John Stewart referred to as “Tea Baggers?” (This is important, because it’s telling that the first mention of a “Tea Party” strangely evinces images of genitalia being inserted into people’s mouths, rather than, say, the founding of our country. I’m certainly relieved that the UC’s did not produce the sick, dimwitted minds of Olberman and Maddow. I don’t, however, know what’s going on up there at Maddow’s Alma Mater, Stanford).

The “Tea Baggers,” in the minds of most Useful Idiots, were little more than under-educated, gun toting White Christians who didn’t want to pay taxes. (Historically, what was it that occasioned the other time such a group came together of late…?).

The “Tea Baggers” were indeed heartless: here, we have people “dying in the streets!” without health care, and those “Faux-News-Halibutron-K Street-Bush-Tea Baggers” are just concerned about taxes and government spending!

Yet, as soon as the tiniest effect of government largess is felt in the checkbooks of 18-23 year old UC students, we’re supposed to bear state-wide demonstrations, the interruption of classes and, potentially, the damaging of public property? This reaches the very height of arrogance and egotism. It’s like watching hungry Romans demand more bread and becoming obstinate when asked to pay up.

Young people like this (mainly college students) suffer from a level of naivete which makes the case, quite brilliantly, that the voting age should be raised to forty. (Yes, I would be more than willing to give my vote up for another 15 years to keep these fools from making anymore political decisions).

These kids are screaming at the smallest fragment of bark on a tree, too stupid to realize that there is a forest around them engulfed in flames. By the time they see the fire, they’ll expect the arsonists to put it out.