Why has the left never made a big deal of any other mineral?
Why did they make films about Blood Diamonds, but nothing was said about any other mineral?
Why is DiCaprio not exhorting the world's masses to cut down on the use of laptops to save Africa. Why is Hollywood not cutting back on so many items of wealth and spending to save Africans?
It puts it entirely in perspective. It shows us what these people really think about those less fortunate, and places it in glaring context. Unfortunately liberals come out looking like the hypocrites they are.
So you say - well, Conservatives are not doing anything more ... so they are hypocrites also. Well, not quite. According to liberal tautology, Conservatives don't care about the poor - you cannot not care and be a hypocrite. Consequently, I do not spend time dealing with what Republicans would or would not do - liberals have long held power - since 2006 at the most recent, while many elements of government were and remained liberal bastions long before that date. Conservatives have held power, but in limited form, and never as overwhelming as have liberals.
It is therefore legitimate to point out what liberals do not do, rather than what Republicans do not do.
Columns of men, bent double under 110-pound sacks of tin ore, emerged from the colonel’s mine shaft. It had been carved hundreds of feet into the mountain with Iron Age tools powered by human sweat, muscle and bone. Porters carry the ore nearly 30 miles on their backs, a two-day trek through a mud-slicked maze to the nearest road and a world hungry for the laptops and other electronics that tin helps create, each man a link in a long global chain.
On paper, the exploration rights to this mine belong to a consortium of British and South African investors who say they will turn this perilous and exploitative operation into a safe, modern beacon of prosperity for Congo. But in practice, the consortium’s workers cannot even set foot on the mountain. Like a mafia, Colonel Matumo and his men extort, tax and appropriate at will, draining this vast operation, worth as much as $80 million a year.
Why Hollywood or the liberal elite world wide do not care is easy - diamonds stare at you, diamonds are a symbol of wealth ... tin and laptops are everywhere. They are as prolific as sand, and for the liberal world elite to actually say something about tin ... is not very attractive. Films do not revolve around tin, unless they play bit parts - the Tin man from Wizard of Oz; Tin Men starring the most liberal of Hollywood's elite - Richard Dreyfuss; Tin Cup starring Kevin Costner; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - starring whoever it is and a cat I suppose on a roof made of tin. No one cares much about tin, but if you open your eyes and deconstruct our world, you may find tin plays an important role ... in everything, including the laptop Obama wants on his desk!
For liberals, the issue is - they do not think very deeply. Everything is emotional and superficial - what they sense and see, feel and touch, and diamonds are the best of possible devils to do combat against. Tin is so not liberal, like the thousands of workers who suffer daily digging the mineral up to allow our civilization to prosper.
Go forth, and pretend all is well - spend your time heckling Bush or screaming about equal rights in marriage. It gives you something to feel. Forget those who are in dire need - that requires you to act, and you, the liberal base, do not care about them.
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