Vanquish the Dem Left

Jewish World Review ^ | June 19, 2023 | Deroy Murdock

[Twotone]

My friend Lawrence W. Reed is one of Earth's biggest optimists.

The legendary free-market scholar recalls flipping his vehicle at age 26 on an icy Michigan road in February 1980. As he rolled over inside his Ford Fairmont, he smiled: ”Hey, I'll get a new car out of this!”

Thus, his recent essay for the Foundation for Economic Education, of which he is president emeritus, is a surprise. Reed has gone from cheerful to chilly.

”There's an awful lot of bad behavior going on — and perpetrators getting away with it, too. From lying to looting, it feels like an epidemic,” Reed writes. ”We are witnessing an alarming collapse of social cohesion that is propelled, as if it were consciously planned, by something bigger and more menacing than simply falling standards of character. I call it 'evil,' and I sense that it's on the loose and on the rise.”

One cannot dispute Reed's FEE.org essay titled ”Evil Is Rising, but Despair Is Not an Option.” Supporting evidence abounds, courtesy of America's volcano of evil, the Democrat Left.

Too bad Democrats have abandoned their tax-and-spend roots. Republicans debated and even found solutions with their opposite numbers who wanted merely to take from the Haves and give to the Have Nots. Leftists once listened to Rightists' alternative vision for boosting prosperity through freedom and growth. Taking and giving were compromised on, measured, and corrected as necessary.

But how do today's Republicans split the difference with people who scream that America is a bigoted country, has been since 1619, and is dialectically divided between white oppressors and non-white victims, all of whom are trapped forever in racially determined castes?

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[Yardstick]

Here’s that piece by Lawrence W. Reed for reference:

https://fee.org/articles/evil-is-rising-but-despair-is-not-an-option/

[Luke21]

My favorite paragraph from the piece.

“An evil person believes his ends justify any means. He divides the world between offenders and the offended and sells himself as a savior. He steals, injures, maligns, deceives, deconstructs, or even kills whatever stands in his way. He accuses the innocent of the very crimes he commits. He distorts language itself in order to confuse rather than enlighten.”