Rags to riches, alive and well in black America

August 29, 2020 By Richard Jack Rail

In politics, intellectual candle power (brains) has no direct relation to reality. Some of the brainiest people who ever lived were (and are) flaming idiot leftists.  Some, but not all.

A natural sentimentality once inclined me toward leftist thinking. That got checked at age 15, when I read what Einstein said about his famous theory: "If it doesn't match reality [I think he said 'experiment'], it's wrong."  That hit me square between the eyes........It's also the way of socialism. You can love the idea, but you must be wedded, always, to reality. Reality, not wishful thinking, must guide your actions. There are no good reasons for bad or destructive actions.

This is why it matters to know that socialism always fails, always ratchets up to tyranny that delivers stacks of bodies, murderous famines, dreary lives. It fails not for lack of the right people in charge, but because socialism is just a bad idea. It's meant for families, not for societies. Its sentimental beauty doesn't matter. The bodies do. The famines do. The dreary lives do. They are reality.........

Today's left is wedded to the idea that black people in America have no chance to live normal, fun, rewarding, successful lives. This idea is so compelling to them that the thought expressed in the Netflix movie American Son, that blacks can't have the American Dream, leaves them anguished. Yet blacks in the millions live the American Dream every day, the Horatio Alger story of a poor kid from nowhere making a good life................

Denials, pretenses, lies. Bodies, famines, dreariness. People who are naturally leftists can wean themselves away from pretense and lies with practice in looking at what's actually going on. But they have to accept that the ultimate arbiter is reality, not some theory or notion that starts out, "If everyone would just..." .............. To Read More....