Liberals' Perpetual Sense of Injury

...highly cultivated. The entitlement wars. George Will:

If you think the health care town halls in August cornered the market on anger, come to Bethesda and watch the private security force -- normal men in an abnormal situation -- wage a losing struggle to keep the lid on liberal anger. When parking lot congestion impedes the advance of responsible eaters toward the bin of heirloom tomatoes, you see that anger comes in many flavors.

We had this kind of battle in Wilmette, between go-slow liberals who wanted aesthetically pleasing neighborly architecture, and aggressive greenies who built an addition, then justified it to themselves with a massive solar array on the roof. Or the historic preservationists to a fault--let's subsidize this, vs. the affordable housing on the pricey real estate zealots--let's subsidize that.

Can't find it now, but I have some memory of a C.S. Lewis quote--defining hell as a perpetual state of envy. Let them eat each other's cake. As long as the rest of us don't have to pay for it--just leave us alone. We usually grow our own tomatoes anyway. Heirloom or Big Boy.