New York Times
columnist Paul Krugman recently informed
us that a national movement is afoot “to punish the unemployed.”Remarkably,
he went on to write, conservatives think the world is far too easy on those who
can’t find work, so they’re on a mission to make it worse. The right, you see,
is not just perpetuating flawed ideas or misguided policies or dumb economics
but driven by an inexplicable desire to inflict pain on the innocent.
Now, as it
happens, I am acquainted with a few conservatives. And though it’s hardly a
scientific sampling, I’ve yet to hear any of them express a desire to punish
the unemployed — or minorities or women, for that matter. They may not want to
offer the unemployed exactly what Krugman might. They may believe, as Krugman
once did, that promising infinite relief isn’t feasible or constructive. But by
assigning a fiendish objective to a conservative policy, Krugman, as he often
does, takes a deceitful shortcut to play on your emotions.
Demonizing your
political opponents is nothing new, and it’s certainly not unique to modern
liberals, but sometimes it seems as if there isn’t any contemporary debate that
doesn’t feature some fabricated moral clash between good and evil…..To
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