Gagdad Bob on Leftist Thought
Is Leftist “thought” an oxymoron?
Dr. Sanity sends me to a post by Gagdad Bob that discusses Leftist thought among other things doomed to failure. He has several comments that caught my eye:
“…it disrupts the developmental arc toward maturity and replaces it with selfishness, entitlement, and dependency–all under the sanctimonious guise of altruism. This is one of the great bait-and-switches in history, for what could be more selfish than to vote to raise someone else’s taxes so you can get a lot of free stuff? The left always talks about “free medical care,” as if someone won’t have to foot the bill. And to paraphrase P.J. O’Rourke, “if you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait until it’s free.” “
and
Likewise, promoting the goal of making college accessible to everyone can only have two effects: college will become a mediocrity enabler, full of people who don’t belong there; or it will become a stupid factory, an outcome it is well on its way to achieving already. And, shielded from market discipline, it will only become more and more expensive. Eventually, the ability to attend college and become stupid will be financially beyond the reach of most Americans.
and this crystal beauty:
Rather, leftist policies fuel envy because they detach effort from outcome and nurture a cosmic sense of entitlement–wanting becomes confused with deserving, as in a child.
Sometimes Gagdad Bob is too hard to read early in the morning, but these three quotes above are gems.
