Smashing Pumpkins has a new album out. Oceania is easily worth the $10 bucks you’ll plop down for it on iTunes or Amazon. And, as much as I’d love to write a review that somehow manages to mention the underrated Machina/The Machines of God, I won’t. Just buy his music, and then tell Billy on his Twitter account to keep being honest about the Occupy Movement’s desire to confiscate wealth from industrious, talented and hardworking members of society.

Confused? Don’t be. The politically puzzling Corgan has been in the news lately, most notably for being one of the few artists who will openly say that President Obama — the guy who was going to transcend partisan politics — sold his supporters a big vat of snake oil. The president who runs “Terror Tuesdays” doesn’t sit well with Corgan. I give him credit for saying so.

I know that Billy has yukked it up with Bill Maher in the past, but after watching his interview with Alex Jones of InfoWars (not normally my cup of tea) I can’t help but think that he’s on the cusp of a breakthrough.

Take his comments on the Occupy Movement.

I think there are certain troubling aspects about [the Occupy movement], particularly the idea of wealth distribution. In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn’t have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote. So when somebody starts talking about how I have to give to somebody who didn’t do that, that’s a deeper conversation. … It doesn’t mean I don’t have a social concern. It doesn’t mean I don’t want to contribute to charities. It doesn’t mean I don’t want to help my fellow man.

Bingo! God bless you, Bill Corgan. You made a million dollars. In fact, you probably have many, many millions of dollars in assets. I do not. And guess what? I don’t begrudge you for that wealth. Spend it. Make another 10 albums. Share you talents with the world. Be successful. Unlike the Occupy movement, conservatives don’t want your money. You’re a talented guy, and we like it when talented people have more money to invest and innovate and do entrepreneurial things with. The Occupy kiddies want your money so they can smoke pot and loaf around, and liberal politicians want it so they can buy votes. You’re only one Thomas Sowell read away from joining us, Billy. Give it a try. I suggest The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy.

Billy goes on with some other very astute observations about today’s left; “they don’t want to hear ideas, they don’t want any dissent, they don’t want any questioning. … [they’re] the party of: be quiet and get in line.”

This is blasphemy. There are quite a few cocktail party invitations that will be revoked over those lines, Mr. Corgan. But that is nothing, because as the Jones interview goes on you really do yourself in — by mentioning liberty:

For me when you really hit the right target is when you talk about liberty and what liberty really means. The responsibility of liberty, the responsibility of freedom. It’s not just this utopian anarchy … What is your responsibility as a man, as a parent, as a citizen of Texas, to your community. To the people who work here in your business. … Our country is supposed to be about innovation. It’s supposed to be about intelligence. Even old Bush. “We’re the beacon on the hill.” Well, are we the beacon on the hill? We should be.

Ask yourself: When was the last time any prominent liberal Democrat used his or her air time to talk about liberty? You can’t talk about liberty without talking about responsibility. Those are two words that don’t sit well with liberals. And yet, if you ever listen to an extended speech by Marco Rubio or Paul Ryan, it is the constitution, liberty and the founding fathers that will almost always make a meaningful appearance.

Conservatives don’t want you to be a “rat in a cage,” Billy. We want you to be free — free to release albums, build bookstores, and get involved with WWE ventures. It is liberalism that seeks to put you into a box. And come election time its advocates want to offer you an extra pellet or two to keep you coming back for more.

With luck, the next Smashing Pumpkins album will be the first ever rock album dedicated to Milton Friedman.

A man can dream, can’t he?