In conservative urban critic Joel Kotkin’s arguments there is always something anti-gay struggling to break through as he blesses the free market, praises sprawling Houston and Phoenix and excoriates the elitists who want to walk though boutique lined streets and stop for a cappuccino.

He has a particularly vivid imagination that aims to divide up the world into the bread and butter, “lunch pail” men and women who drive trucks, work at Costco and live 75 miles from work so they can afford a house. These are the forgotten middle class who have been abandoned by….

…..A ravishingly effete and rich gay population, marinated in Diptyque, made up of museum going stockbrokers, hedge fund managers and Hollywood liberals who ignore Ma and Pa Watkins so they can pursue a perverted lifestyle that extols the environment and equates those who believe a dead man rose from a cross, then a cave, into heaven, with those who go to rave parties and snort coke every night until 4am.

Astoundingly, he finds that the “old” liberalism had much merit to it: “The old liberalism had its flaws, but it also inspired increased social and economic mobility, strong protections for unions, the funding of a national highway system and a network of public parks, and the development of viable public schools. It also invented Social Security and favored a strong foreign policy.”

Yes, Mr. Kotkin the old liberalism favored unions, a national transportation system, public parks and viable public schools. Republicans hate unions, want transportation funding to only include auto-centered solutions, are dismantling our public park protections, and think schools should be run like corporations (Enron?). In addition, Mr. Bush wants to dismantle Social Security. His foreign policy: speak arrogantly, lead us into disaster, and watch the world run away.

The Kotkin Paradise is the New Deal, with the moral certitude of Ronald Reagan. It is 1948, with the GI Bill intact, and America airlifting supplies to West Berlin to beat the Soviet blockade. But today, the Gaymocrat pursues a cultural war that frivolously asks all Americans to be treated equally under the law, and thinks that foreign policy might have something to do with environmental diplomacy rather than saber rattling. Somehow the new Gaymocrat is responsible for the dismantling of the old Democrat dream by not following the new social conservatism of the Republican Party.

Makes a lot of sense, huh?

“Kotkin”. Funny that a last name spelled like that doesn’t know the meaning of the word, “Scapegoat”. Kinehora!