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Anger on the left
The Anger Of The Left By Thomas Sowell www.nationwidespeakers.com/speaker/217 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell That people on the political left have a certain set of opinions, just as people do in other parts of the ideological spectrum, is not surprising. What is surprising, however, is how often the opinions of those on the left are accompanied by hostility and even hatred. Particular issues can arouse passions here and there for anyone with any political views. But, for many on the left, indignation is not a sometime thing. It is a way of life. How often have you seen conservatives or libertarians take to the streets, shouting angry slogans? How often have conservative students on campus shouted down a visiting speaker or rioted to prevent the visitor from speaking at all? The source of the anger of liberals, "progressives" or radicals is by no means readily apparent. The targets of their anger have included people who are non-confrontational or even genial, such as Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. It is hard to think of a time when Karl Rove or Dick Cheney has even raised his voice but they are hated like the devil incarnate. There doesn't even have to be any identifiable individual to arouse the ire of the left. "Tax cuts for the rich" is more than a political slogan. It is incitement to anger. All sorts of people can have all sorts of beliefs about what tax rates are best from various points of view. But how can people work themselves into a lather over the fact that some taxpayers are able to keep more of the money they earned, instead of turning it over to politicians to dispense in ways calculated to get themselves re-elected? The angry left has no time to spend even considering the argument that what they call "tax cuts for the rich" are in fact tax cuts for the economy. Nor is the idea new that tax cuts can sometimes spur economic growth, resulting in more jobs for workers and higher earnings for business, leading to more tax revenue for the government. A highly regarded economist once observed that "taxation may be so high as to defeat its object," so that sometimes "a reduction of taxation will run a better chance, than an increase, of balancing the Budget." Who said that? Milton Friedman? Arthur Laffer? No. It was said in 1933 by John Maynard Keynes, a liberal icon. Lower tax rates have led to higher tax revenues many times, both before and since Keynes' statement -- the Kennedy tax cuts in the 1960s, the Reagan tax cuts in the 1980s, and the recent Bush tax cuts that have led to record high tax revenues this April. Budget deficits have often resulted from runaway spending but seldom from reduced tax rates. Those on the other side may have different arguments. However, the question here is not why the left has different arguments, but why there is such anger. Often it is an exercise in futility even to seek to find a principle behind the anger. For example, the left's obsession with the high incomes of corporate executives never seems to extend to equally high -- or higher -- incomes of professional athletes, entertainers, or best-selling authors like Danielle Steel. If the reason for the anger is a feeling that corporate CEOs are overpaid for their contributions, then there should be even more anger at people who get even more money for doing absolutely nothing, because they have inherited fortunes. Yet how often has the left gotten worked up into high dudgeon over those who inherited the Rockefeller, Roosevelt or Kennedy fortunes? Even spoiled heirs like Paris Hilton don't really seem to set them off. If it is hard to find a principle behind what angers the left, it is not equally hard to find an attitude. Their greatest anger seems to be directed at people and things that thwart or undermine the social vision of the left, the political melodrama starring the left as saviors of the poor, the environment, and other busybody tasks that they have taken on. It seems to be the threat to their egos that they hate. And nothing is more of a threat to their desire to run other people's lives than the free market and its defenders |
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"PJ O'Donovan" wrote in message oups.com... The Anger Of The Left By Thomas Sowell www.nationwidespeakers.com/speaker/217 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell That people on the political left have a certain set of opinions, just as people do in other parts of the ideological spectrum, is not surprising. What is surprising, however, is how often the opinions of those on the left are accompanied by hostility and even hatred. Particular issues can arouse passions here and there for anyone with any political views. But, for many on the left, indignation is not a sometime thing. It is a way of life. How often have you seen conservatives or libertarians take to the streets, shouting angry slogans? How often have conservative students on campus shouted down a visiting speaker or rioted to prevent the visitor from speaking at all? Good article - Thomas Sowell rocks. The envy of the Left shows through whenever you scratch the surface. |
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"True Blue" wrote in message ... "PJ O'Donovan" wrote in message oups.com... The Anger Of The Left By Thomas Sowell www.nationwidespeakers.com/speaker/217 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell That people on the political left have a certain set of opinions, just as people do in other parts of the ideological spectrum, is not surprising. What is surprising, however, is how often the opinions of those on the left are accompanied by hostility and even hatred. Particular issues can arouse passions here and there for anyone with any political views. But, for many on the left, indignation is not a sometime thing. It is a way of life. How often have you seen conservatives or libertarians take to the streets, shouting angry slogans? How often have conservative students on campus shouted down a visiting speaker or rioted to prevent the visitor from speaking at all? Good article - Thomas Sowell rocks. The envy of the Left shows through whenever you scratch the surface. Obviously neither you, Sowell, or poor old peejay have never seen the extreme right in action. I have. I've seen Mosleyites and the BNP at work and it's not pretty. |
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On 17 May 2007 02:57:58 -0700, PJ O'Donovan wrote:
The Anger Of The Left By Thomas Sowell www.nationwidespeakers.com/speaker/217 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell That people on the political left have a certain set of opinions, just as people do in other parts of the ideological spectrum, is not surprising. What is surprising, however, is how often the opinions of those on the left are accompanied by hostility and even hatred. Particular issues can arouse passions here and there for anyone with any political views. But, for many on the left, indignation is not a sometime thing. It is a way of life. How often have you seen conservatives or libertarians take to the streets, shouting angry slogans? How often have conservative students on campus shouted down a visiting speaker or rioted to prevent the visitor from speaking at all? The source of the anger of liberals, "progressives" or radicals is by no means readily apparent. The targets of their anger have included people who are non-confrontational or even genial, such as Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. It is hard to think of a time when Karl Rove or Dick Cheney has even raised his voice but they are hated like the devil incarnate. There doesn't even have to be any identifiable individual to arouse the ire of the left. "Tax cuts for the rich" is more than a political slogan. It is incitement to anger. All sorts of people can have all sorts of beliefs about what tax rates are best from various points of view. But how can people work themselves into a lather over the fact that some taxpayers are able to keep more of the money they earned, instead of turning it over to politicians to dispense in ways calculated to get themselves re-elected? The angry left has no time to spend even considering the argument that what they call "tax cuts for the rich" are in fact tax cuts for the economy. Nor is the idea new that tax cuts can sometimes spur economic growth, resulting in more jobs for workers and higher earnings for business, leading to more tax revenue for the government. A highly regarded economist once observed that "taxation may be so high as to defeat its object," so that sometimes "a reduction of taxation will run a better chance, than an increase, of balancing the Budget." Who said that? Milton Friedman? Arthur Laffer? No. It was said in 1933 by John Maynard Keynes, a liberal icon. useful article by an intelligent fellow....but to confuse keynes with leftism is in error..... the left have tried to re-write keynes as a leftist despite him being no such thing, just as they've tried to re-write fascism and national socialism as right wing keynes had no illusions whatsoever about socialism "Marxian Socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of Opinion - how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised so powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men, and, through them, the events of history." regards.... -- web site at www.abelard.org - news comment service, logic, economics energy, education, politics, etc 1,552,396 document calls in year past -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- all that is necessary for [] walk quietly and carry the triumph of evil is that [] a big stick. good people do nothing [] trust actions not words only when it's funny -- roger rabbit -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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On 17 May 2007 02:57:58 -0700, PJ O'Donovan wrote:
The source of the anger of liberals, "progressives" or radicals is by no means readily apparent. -to any Swiftboat idiot |
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On 17 May 2007 02:57:58 -0700, PJ O'Donovan wrote:
The Anger Of The Left By Thomas Sowell www.nationwidespeakers.com/speaker/217 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell Particular issues can arouse passions here and there for anyone with any political views. But, for many on the left, indignation is not a sometime thing. It is a way of life. Lush Bimbo isn't indignant is he? Here's what our mission accomplished I'm sure non of this bothers you! By Derrick Z. Jackson, Globe Columnist THESE ARE just some of the stories on the four-year anniversary of Mission Accomplished: Washington Post: "The deaths of more than 100 troops in April made it the deadliest month so far this year for US forces in Iraq." Los Angeles Times: "April was even more devastating for Iraqi civilians. More than 1,500 were killed in bombings, assassinations and sectarian violence." New York Times: "In a troubling sign for the American-financed rebuilding program in Iraq, inspectors for a federal oversight agency have found that in a sampling of eight projects that the United States had declared successful, seven were no longer operating as designed because of plumbing and electrical failures, lack of proper maintenance, apparent looting, and expensive equipment that lay idle." Boston Globe: "Deaths and injuries from terrorist attacks increased sharply last year, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan, with government officials, police, and security guards coming under greater attack than ever before . . . more than 20,000 people died and more than 38,000 were injured . . . an increase of 6,000 deaths or more than 40 percent over 2005, according to [the State Department]." This is four years after President Bush staged one of the gaudiest self-congratulations in American history. He landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln in a jet fighter, popped out in a flight jumpsuit and proclaimed major combat operations to be over in Iraq under the now-infamous banner, "Mission Accomplished." It is four years after Bush said, "We do not know the day of final victory, but we have seen the turning of the tide. No act of the terrorists will change our purpose, or weaken our resolve, or alter their fate. Their cause is lost." Bush's cause is so lost that 71 percent of Americans disagree with his handling of Iraq in the latest New York Times/CBS poll and 64 percent say Bush should set a timetable for troop withdrawal in 2008. By a 57 percent-to-35 percent tally in that poll, Americans say Congress, not Bush, should have the final say about troop levels. Similarly, in the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC poll, Americans say by 56 percent to 37 percent they agree with the Democrats' push for a troop withdrawal deadline over Bush's refusal to set a deadline. Bush's cause is so lost that people are turning on him wherever he turns, from former CIA director George Tenet to the family of Pat Tillman, who calls the military's glorification of his death in Afghanistan "utter fiction," and soldier Jessica Lynch, who said the military's glorification of her capture and rescue in Iraq was utterly unnecessary. "The American people are capable of determining their own ideals for heroes and they don't need to be told elaborate lies," she told a congressional oversight panel last week. This, not to mention Abu Ghraib, was all inevitable in a war that itself was an elaborate lie. With no weapons of mass destruction, no proof that Saddam Hussein was tied to 9/11, Al Qaeda, or an imminent threat himself, America was led by fiction into a disaster that has now claimed 3,351 US soldiers, 3,211 of the deaths coming AFTER Bush declared major combat operations to be OVER. The civilian toll will probably never be accurately known, since US military officials famously said "we don't do body counts." Numbers range from the conservative 60,000s of Iraq Body Count to the 600,000 of the medical journal Lancet. Last week, the United Nations criticized Iraqi officials for not providing civilian casualty figures. The United Nations estimates that the continuing violence claimed 34,452 civilian lives last year. The Iraqi government says the number was 12,357. Yesterday, Bush continued to do violence to history by going to Central Command in Tampa to once again string together 9/11 and Al Qaeda and Nazis and communists into Saddam and Iraq. Bush said, "Four years ago, we confronted a brutal tyrant who had used weapons of mass destruction, supported terrorists, invaded his neighbors, oppressed his people, and tested the resolve and the credibility of the United Nations." Four years later, we know what mission was truly accomplished. Bush destroyed the credibility of his presidency and degraded America's standing in the world for years to come. Whatever he tried to accomplish, America is saying the mission is over. |
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"Mani Deli" wrote in message
... On 17 May 2007 02:57:58 -0700, PJ O'Donovan wrote: The source of the anger of liberals, "progressives" or radicals is by no means readily apparent. Then let me see if I can clarify it for you: I hate George Bush and his Nazi administration with a white hot hatred that can never be understood by the weak kneed rightards that form the Bush butt sucker league. The cowering of the, so called, "right" in the face of any moral decision is putrid. The notion that my freedom and liberty are to be scarified for YOUR safety and security is, to me, loathsome and despicable. And the icing on the cake is when you rigtarded pieces of Republican pig **** refer to true Americans as cowards. You have the gall and the self righteous hypocrisy to claim that a Liberal defense of the real America is somehow unpatriotic. You prance around mouthing democracy while knowing full well that you fear democracy much more than you fear the evil "terrorists". For without the "terrorists" what have you got? And if democracy reigns you know you are done. There was a time when conservatism actually had some value. But those conservative principles were dead and buried before the close of 1982. -- "I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education." - Thomas Jefferson http://GreaterVoice.org |
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On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:13:38 -0700, "The Trucker"
wrote: "Mani Deli" wrote in message .. . On 17 May 2007 02:57:58 -0700, PJ O'Donovan wrote: The source of the anger of liberals, "progressives" or radicals is by no means readily apparent. Then let me see if I can clarify it for you: I hate George Bush and his Nazi administration with a white hot hatred that can never be understood by the weak kneed rightards that form the Bush butt sucker league. The cowering of the, so called, "right" in the face of any moral decision is putrid. The notion that my freedom and liberty are to be scarified for YOUR safety and security is, to me, loathsome and despicable. And the icing on the cake is when you rigtarded pieces of Republican pig **** refer to true Americans as cowards. You have the gall and the self righteous hypocrisy to claim that a Liberal defense of the real America is somehow unpatriotic. You prance around mouthing democracy while knowing full well that you fear democracy much more than you fear the evil "terrorists". For without the "terrorists" what have you got? And if democracy reigns you know you are done. Yeah, but what's really bothering you? Come on, don't be shy. |
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