I'm befuddled. How can people who have witnessed the repeated and sorry results (however well-meaning) of ultra-liberal politics ... Detroit; Castro's Cuba; Philadelphia; Washington, DC; Venezuela; the state of California (and many of its locales); Greece; the old Soviet Union; and on and on and on ... still consider that such an orthodoxy is a winning strategy? Is it that they don't see ... or if they see, they don't understand ... or if they understand, they only seek the narrow and short-term benefits for themselves?
I dearly wish I could appreciate and possibly even decipher such obsessive and guileless behavior.
Afterward: I think that there actually is another category of Marxists ... and that is comprised of those people who believe, Christ-like, that they are helping the downtrodden. But clearly this aid is only temporary because, longer-term, the predictable result is that they are always worse-off ... witness the above list. Rather, "Teach a man to fish ..."
Your nihilism is showing... Do you prefer the ethics and behaviors of Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Isreal? Maybe strss like Texas and Alaska where Gid chose to imbue them with oil wealth in His divine sisdom? Why not successful progressive liberalism, such as Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Canada? What those countries seem to elicit in their people is real commonwealth, where you give more o others can get a leg, and those get a leg up have the camaraderie to pull the other leg by themselves so that they can then help others.
ReplyDeleteRead Mark Steyn's comparison of Detroit to its neighbor, Windsor, Canada: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/353959/downfall-detroit-mark-steyn for a view of how bad things can get ... even as compared to somewhat less liberal progressives.
ReplyDeleteAnd, if you believe that that "commonwealths" are to be emulated here in the U.S., then I suppose that we will have to find another country to protect us from the bullies of the world ... since we, like Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, will have become simpering wimps too.