Do-Gooders, Goody Two Shoes, and Tobacco, by Scipio

Do-Gooders

People who lean left politically, whether they realize it or not, always want to tell other people what to do and how to live their lives. They love to pontificate and tell you about what is the “right” thing to do.  What’s more, if you don’t heed what they tell you, then they are compelled to force you to comply with their views.  It’s a kind of moral imperative with them. They tended to be Democrats.

These people are Do-Gooders.  They are always involved in what they erroneously believe are shared community values such as; save the environment, save the planet, save the whales, save the lake, and as Yul Brenner, who played the King of Siam said in the great movie The King and I, said, “etcetera, etcetera, and etcetera”.

They basically want to save you from yourself. They even want to save you from seeing disturbing images of violence even though violence is engineered by them.  They want to save you from “misinformation” even though they have built great edifices dedicated solely to the transmission of “misinformation” (aka) lies and propaganda.  They want to protect you from the consequences of committing crimes via long drawn-out trial delays and plea agreements while simultaneously turning an absolute blind eye to treason, massive fraud, war crimes, and genocidal murder in their midst.

Goody Two Shoes

Some people see things differently, on the other hand. I don’t know what it is about money, but those who have lots of money want to lord it over you. They think that if they have discretionary income, it somehow makes them better than those who don’t. It doesn’t. As a matter of fact, it’s a liability according to Jesus (Matthew 19:24).

There used to be an old expression, “goody two shoes” that was widely used to identify these people.  Two generations back, many poor people could only afford one pair of shoes. If you had two pair, one for every-day and the other “go to meeting Sunday school shoes”, you were considered wealthy. It’s similar to the British “born with a silver spoon in your mouth” type of thing. If you had two shoes, thus the moniker, “goody two shoes”.

My mother was an orphan, and as a little girl, she was only bought one pair of shoes, if she was lucky, every year.  BTW my mother had foot problems her whole life.  When her foot grew too big for her shoes before the next year, she cut out the sides or toes so her feet would fit. My daddy, who grew up dirt poor, said he would stuff newspapers in the toes and sides of his shoes in the winter to keep his feet warm.  When it rained in the winter, his feet froze.

Instead of showing compassion or empathy, Goody Two Shoes people were always telling you what you “ought” to do because you’re obviously lazy or you must be doing something wrong or you would have two pair of shoes.  They tended to be Republican.

Enforcement of Good

One day the Do-Gooders decided that telling people what to do didn’t go far enough.  People should be forced to “do good”. However, they needed the government to be that enforcer, but they needed “a cause” for enforcement.  Fortunately, (actually drummed up propaganda from the left), some in society had been preaching about the harmful effects of tobacco, so shutting down smoking became their target. The complicit and criminal CDC decided to go out of its way and publicly state nicotine was habit forming and unhealthy.  It didn’t matter that alcohol did the same thing but alcohol consumption was very popular, so the self-righteous indignation of the health care community was reserved for tobacco only.

The Goody Two Shoers saw how popular this idea was so, as they always do, they followed the lead of the Do-Gooders. They gladly put a lot of their tobacco growing farming constituents out of business to be “on the right side of history”.  Ghandhi would have been so proud of them.

Seeing how Americans had no problem with having their rights to consume legal products in public taken away from them, the Do-Gooders decided to push it further and took the lead in “saving the environment” by shutting down coal fired furnaces ranging from factory boilers to electric power plants.

West Virginia and Kentucky coal miners were mainly put out of business, coal mining towns became ghost towns overnight, once thriving towns like Bluefield W Va emptied, Harlan and McDowell W VA counties became breeding grounds for drug addiction among unemployed youth.

The worst part is the citizens in the tobacco states and the coal mining states continued to vote for the same local politicians who decimated their communities and stripped them of their livelihoods with it. Stupid is what stupid does.

The Spread of Do-Goodism

It initially started with tobacco, but “Do-Goodism” has spread throughout government and society.  Now, for example, ladder manufacturers are required to place multiple warning stickers on ladders because you probably never knew you might fall off and get hurt.  Movies and TV shows are required to provide “content” warnings. You are mandated to take a certain vaccine despite the low mortality the virus actually posed.  Even “Snap and Pops” can get you expelled from school if found in your possession because they fall under the “explosives category” ban to keep schools safe. (My straight A student son, member of the state champion wrestling team, was expelled because a teacher “saw” snap and pops in my son’s open backpack.)

Now the Do-Gooders are going after your toaster , https://www.connect2mason.com/content/toasters-propensity-create-fires-results-ban  incandescent light bulbs were banned in 2007,  gas ovens https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/13/house-passes-bill-block-gas-stove-ban-00100492, travel (https://www.fodors.com/world/north-america/usa/california/experiences/news/california-government-has-now-banned-travel-to-26-states).  The American Library Association has banned almost 3,000 books to protect little minds from harmful books like the lurid “To Kill a Mockingbird” (https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2023/03/record-book-bans-2022).  There’s a future ban on gasoline cars by 2035 to protect the environment (https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-pledges-end-gas-powered-federal-vehicle-purchases-by-2035-2021-12-08/), and plastic shopping bags (https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/13/house-passes-bill-block-gas-stove-ban-00100492).  Flavors in e-cigarettes will be banned (https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/2019/09/11/government-will-propose-banning-flavors-used-in-e-cigarettes/3069843007/), and as the Siam King would say, “etcetera, etcetera, and etcetera!”

The Future of Goody Two Shoes

Meanwhile, the Goody Two Shoe crowd has disappeared, too ashamed to admit they were on the wrong side of history. Don’t worry, they will soon reappear and be endorsing some specious moralistic campaign.

Its Tobacco’s Fault

And just think, this all started because of a bunch of Do- Gooder’s and Goody Two Shoers’ campaign against tobacco. For you Reconstruction history buffs, it is reminiscent of the Carpet Baggers and Scallywags.  If you don’t know who they were, then, you don’t.