Sowell: The High Cost of Liberalism

Creators Syndicate ^ | April 22, 2014 | Thomas Sowell

[RedHeeler]

Inheritance from second, third or first generation, family. How do you, not suppose, upon, the line of dim-witted property owners?

[Tainan]

I think you might be more comfortable going down the hall and taking a left.

[FreedomPoster]

Here's a zoning map of San Francisco, the city proper. Everything in yellow is restricted to 4 stories or less. And people wonder why housing is so expensive?

[razorback-bert]

I wouldn’t want to be on the 50th floor, when big one hits.

[kevkrom]

I strongly disagree with his very first axiom: conservatives would be miserable in a liberal run world, precisely because we known what that world would be like.

Not quite what he said - he said a world as envisioned by liberals. That is, the believers in the idea that we can create utopia. (Whereas conservatives tend to believe than man is fundamentally flawed and therefore should not be trusted with great amounts of power unchecked.)

[FreedomPoster]

No, but there’s a lot of room for more than 4 floors. And a lot of the older buildings aren’t that great for earthquake resistance. I’d rather be in a properly engineered 8 story than a crappy old 3 story.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Near the end of the Soviet Union, when everything was horribly filthy and falling apart, the Soviet tour agency was still taking starry-eyed American leftists around.

It did not matter what they were shown, because instead of a garbage mound, they saw a castle. Instead of horribly polluted rivers, they saw pristine streams, with flowers on the banks instead of rotting fish. Even the tour guides were amazed at their level of delusion, in “the people’s paradise”.

My point is that what liberals envision is not just the ideal world of the future they want; they are just as incapable of seeing reality today the way it is.

For them, America today is a horrific concentration camp, a desolate yet internationally oppressive monstrosity, when run by Republicans; and when Democrats are in charge, they are desperately trying to crawl out of that carnage, by destroying it, with Republicans fighting them every step of the way, for insidious and evil reasons.

When you show them a daisy, they do not see a daisy. If they imagine it to be a Republican thing, then it is a noxious and poisonous, genetically modified monster. But if it is a Democrat thing, it is perfect beauty, yet not in and of itself, but only in how it serves “the cause”.

Delusion all the way around.

So my point is, the world envisioned by liberals is Hell, but so is the world they would create for us today. And yet they are unaware of it all.

Yet for clear sighted conservatives, a daisy is a daisy. So a liberal anything is going to be very bad.