I’d like to point out that I buy and drive outstanding automobiles made by Ford Motor Company. In the beginning I drove Chevrolets, also outstanding cars, but switched over to Fords when Chevy quit making Camaros.

Now, I’ve always been a rock-ribbed conservative American patriot and would never consider buying a foreign car at any price. For my entire life I have been arguing against the business environment faced by the Big Three, which is essentially the New Deal labor model. It’s one I’ve always hated given the adversarial nature of management vs. unions. It builds in high fixed costs; it crowds the bottom line, which hurts innovation and limits product range; it creates an adversarial environemnt on the plant floor that is detrimental to quality; etc.

I’ve railed against liberals and Democrats when I’ve found them in foreign cars, which is a lot. Ford/Chevy land was never Manhattan or Berkeley, but always out in the sticks. I don’t have the numeric breakdowns and I’ve never seen them regarding ideological connection to the ride you drive, but I’d bet you more liberals and Democrats are driving foreign cars than conservatives. I don’t know of a lib personally who hasn’t expressed anything but categorical hatred for the Big Three who are, in their mind, symbolic of the great evils of corporate America. They’ve been like Naderites on GM for years.

I explain to them that if they really believed what they say about American blue collar workers, about the benefits of unionism, about generous worker compensations and living wages, then they have no business in a Prius.

But now this inevitable day has come when the New Deal labor model imposed on our manufacturers has imploded them. They, who sing of its praises while driving away in Honda, are going to make sure it stays firmly in place instead of fixing the problem and freeing the capital.

Hypocrites.