Don't Help Poor Shoppers Save Money

George Will points out that the quixotic opposition to Walmart on the American left places liberals in opposition to much of their supposed constituency -- the median Walmart shopper has a household income under $40,000/year, and these customers shop there because of aggregate savings that far exceed government payouts for food stamps and the earned income credit. The anti-Walmart crowd also reveals some other unflattering realities about itself:

Liberals think their campaign against Wal-Mart is a way of introducing the subject of class into America's political argument, and they are more correct than they understand. Their campaign is liberalism as condescension. It is a philosophic repugnance toward markets, because consumer sovereignty results in the masses making messes. Liberals, aghast, see the choices Americans make with their dollars and their ballots and announce -- yes, announce -- that Americans are sorely in need of more supervision by . . . liberals.