I am 1/1024 Siberian Tiger so MEOW er I mean ROAR.
Posted on 10/19/2018 4:02:42 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Link only due to copyright issues: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/10/elizabeth-warren-shows-democrats-how-to-lose-in-2020
From the article: “Trump’s ridiculous quest to find Barack Obama’s “missing” birth certificate. Warren’s case is not the same at all. The Obama birther charade was a fabrication rooted in nothing but mouth-breathing racism.”
The legacy media routinely forgets that Hillary Clinton’s campaign first raised the birther issue in the primary against Obama. And then the legacy media tried to elevate this mouth breathing racist, to the presidency.
Sigh . . . . It’s not mouth breathing racism if the media’s anointed left-wing candidate does it.
From the article: “Warren has done more than most any Democrat to break down her party’s orthodoxy on corporate power.”
LOL. That’s a doozy. She did that by taking huge contributions from Wall Street while pretending to be for the little guy against wall street. That’s SOP for the left for decades. Not seeing the orthodoxy break.
The article was insightful and well written.
In large part the American Revolution was premised on the famous, and extremely widely read in the colonies, tract Common Sense (1776)by Thomas Paine. Which begins thusly:
SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil . . . We need to use that logic to take back the word “society” from the “writers” who had started stealing it by 1776, and who in the 20th Century had pretty much finished the heist.Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness;the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices.
The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions.
The first is a patron, the last a punisher.
The reality is that “conservatives” (who actually believe in progress of, by, and for the people) are skeptics. Conservatives are skeptical enough of society that they endorse the need for government as a (regrettable) necessity. But conservatives are also skeptical of government - even democratically elected government - as expensive and very dangerous.
“Liberals, OTOH, are not skeptics. They are instead cynical, and that is a different thing. On face value, cynicism is extreme skepticism - but skepticism implies uncertainty, and cynics have their mind made up. Not only so, but naiveté is embedded within cynicism. If you are cynical about “A” it is difficult, if not impossible, to avoid being naive about “not A.”
Thus we see Paine’s “some writers” seemingly starting from a naive faith in democracy and in democratically elected government - and going from there to applying the good name “society” to government and justifying that naiveté with blanket condemnation of the real thing, actual society,. Socialism promises to "divide the pie” equally, ironically assuming that the pie is a given. “Conservatism” promotes growth in the size of the pie. In historical perspective, “conservatism” has resulted in such growth of the pie in the past century and a half that an American secretary today would not find it an unmixed blessing to trade circumstances with Queen Victoria. Because socialism is inherently backward looking, socialists tend to fail to adapt to changes - and the pie not only will not grow but will tend to shrink.
I am 1/1024 Siberian Tiger so MEOW er I mean ROAR.
Quadrupling down on stupid. Liawatha is the DEMONcRAT gift that keeps on giving.
Thank you Vanity Fair! I think this is fantastic!
How many times can you get a Pro Warren article mention the term “Pocahontas”? WINNING!!!
With this many mentions maybe it will help put Diehl in the senate.
The Cherokee casino?
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