December 10, 2018 By Sam Younnokis
So if the USA is a terrible horrible place, what country/nation do the (millennials/elitists) critics think we should try to be like?
Have the critics spent a year in whatever country that is?
It seems reasonable that they should, to be sure they know what that country looks like instead of relying on second and third hand reports. After all, changing the nature of our nation is not going to be cheap or easy. Even “climate chaos” mongers do a little (ultimately flawed) research. Let's be scientific and be sure to gather evidence before we commit to such an all-encompassing endeavor.
It sounds promising when critics say that we should give free medical care and education to everyone, and maybe in some ideal world that would happen. Where is it happening right now? Nowhere.
If we think about it in terms of “free diversity advice”, how many people with diversity-related degrees are willing to work for free? Even if their college debts were forgiven, they still have to pay rent and buy food. They cannot afford to work for free. Neither can medical caregivers like doctors and nurses, nor education providers like teachers and administrative staff................Read more
My Take - Leftists demand perfection, if they're not in charge. When they are in charge everything, and I mean everything, is not only imperfect it's not long before everything turns into a disaster. That's history and that history is incontestable.
Years ago when there was a big march and demonstration by "liberals" against some world economic summit NPR ran an interview with (yeah, shocker isn't that, I actually listen to NPR) a young demonstrator asking her what she was protesting and what she thought should replace the current system. She said "great minds were working on this". As they continued to question her along the lines that she was protesting against something for which she had no alternative, she came back to her default setting - "Great minds were working on this". Which of course means nothing.
This default setting concept is consistent among the left. When questioned at a Senate hearing regarding Global Warming a Sierra Club representative had his default setting, which was - "97% of scientists agree". No matter what questions he was asked, or facts presented to show that was inaccurate, he kept coming back to - "97% of scientists agree". Well, what does that mean. Please enjoy my article, How Many Constitute 97%?, for the answer.
Why do they do this? Because facts and consistency of thought are anathema to the left, whether it involves economics or the environment, and for the same reason. Their only concern is grabbing as much money and power as possible irrespective of reality or factuality. That is the only moral foundation for the left. They will adopt or abandon any position necessary to attain it. Any position they adopt will be done with passion and unending emotion pointing an unending finger of condemnation at anyone who disagrees. If, or when, they abandon those positions, they will do it with equal passion and emotion, and with the same level of condemnation against anyone who disagrees, even if that was their position yesterday.
One thing will be always be true about leftists. They will never care about facts if those facts do not support the most popular philosophical flavor of the day. Which means no matter what they say they don't care about the people their positions impact any more than did Stalin or Mao, both of whom murdered tens of millions of their own people to attain their goals.
To be a leftist is to be irrational, misanthropic and morally defective. Show me any country controlled by leftists and leftist central planning and control systems that doesn't operate in that manner. How about Venezuela?
Here's reality. Everyone wants perfection, but in the real world the best we can hope for is the most acceptable imperfection. Capitalism isn't perfect, but it's the most acceptable imperfection. Socialism is not only imperfect, in practice, it's insanity.
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