"In recent weeks, we examined the Obama administration’s willingness to reverse positions that it had once proudly proclaimed — on whether an individual mandate is necessary, whether the individual mandate is a tax, whether it is important that you can keep your plan or doctor, whether lobbyists should work in a president’s administration, whether a donor should be appointed U.S. ambassador, and so on. Then we noted environmentalists who said they would not criticize or attack lawmakers who supported the Keystone Pipeline, as long as they were Democrats.
Last week, we expanded the discussion to progressives’ wide-ranging willingness to contradict their own professed principles: gun-control proponents who travel with armed bodyguards, voucher opponents who send their kids to private schools, and minimum-wage-hike advocates who pay their staff less than the minimum wage, among others.
So what do progressives really want? If, as I suspect, the currency of progressivism isn’t policies or results, but emotions, what does that approach build? What kind of a country do you get when political leaders are driven by a desire to feel that they are more enlightened, noble, tolerant, wise, sensitive, conscious, and smart than most other people?
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The evidence before us suggests progressives’ ideal society would be one where they enjoy great power to regulate the lives of others and impose restrictions and limitations they themselves would never accept in their own lives. Very few people object to an aristocracy with special rights and privileges as long as they’re in it.
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Duh, they are the only ones who can be trusted to lead the country. Look at all those Red State hicks who refuse to vote themselves raises to their wages and benefits.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
towermonkey wrote: This place really has turned into a right wing echo chamber. Wow...
Wow, I didn't realize the lefty opinions were being disenfranchised /banned/ silenced / moderated, etc. Post up something you think is interesting and see what happens.
The left is angry because they are now being judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
towermonkey wrote: This place really has turned into a right wing echo chamber. Wow...
Because the Left no longer accepts dissent and doesn't know how to defend their beliefs?
Watching the first episode of Cosmos, one of the tales told of a former Catholic theologian who while studying ancient texts, he came to a theory that the universe was much more than the solar system revolving around the Earth. He was persecuted by the Catholics, Calvinists, and Lutherans for his heresies. Remind anyone of the AGW cult today? Any dissent is dismissed right off the bat. Debate closed.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Yes, we also reject the Flat Earth Society. Sometimes facts are a b*tch...and those that still cling to the drivel and talking points from the Heartland Institute can just be ignored, since they don't bring anything intelligent to the conversation.
