Libertarianism is a good bias, but a terrible ideology. Civil society requires laws, judgment and punishment. Doing away with judgment and punishment will lead to societal decline. Doing away with laws in order to avoid having to judge is a fool's plan. It is moral and intellectual laziness.
The epitome of Modern politics is to claim credit for giving a minority of society a benefit while dismissing concerns of the societal costs as bigotry / racism. But there is always a cost! Wokeism is the taking of minority rights to the extreme - that anything that benefits even just one person is worth doing no matter the cost to the larger population.
What are the costs of extreme individual accommodation? Read the Nellie Bowles article. It is a story of massive failure. The politicians are at fault but the citizens deserve blame - they elected the politicians who junked principles of civil society. Good for the citizens of San Francisco for trying to correct their mistake. I wish the citizens of Baltimore would show similar wisdom.
We can want a fairer justice system and also want to keep our car windows from getting smashed. And: It’s not white supremacy to hope that the schools stay open, that teachers teach children, and, yes, that they test to see what those kids have learned."
Seems like preparation for a huge electoral wipeout of Democrats coming in Nov. Which I hope for, so want to hear more about why it might not happen.
When voters stop voting Democrat, we'll see in the vote count that they're learning.
Too bad she didn't find any folk also saying: "wanting Voter ID laws, like virtually all other global democracies, to avoid real and imagined voter fraud, is not voter suppression."
She didn't mention Biden's many many actual failures (gas prices, Afghanistan, Covid lockdown, huge inflation), but was able to bad mouth Trump in an offhand way:
"Trump’s shadow seemed to loom over even the smallest local office. "
Trump was demonized so much by so many Dems, that anybody anti-Trump was considered good. I note that Arnold, too, still demonizes Trump more than honestly criticizing Biden's policies & results in comparison.
Trump's "mean tweets" are gone - also many of his policies that were producing GREAT results.
Trump was doing more deregulation than anybody since Reagan; not mentioned, possibly not thought of, by Arnold.
I was NeverHillary in 2016; then became against the anti-Trump criticism not based on results. That's not "moral ire", it's more an attempt at intellectual honesty. Which so many anti-Trump intellectuals seem to avoid actually noting.
‘… progressive-libertarian nihilism, of the belief that any intervention that has to be imposed on a vulnerable person is so fundamentally flawed and problematic…’
But not when imposed en masse on healthy people and children, when it is done with great gusto and brutality.
Libertarianism is a good bias, but a terrible ideology. Civil society requires laws, judgment and punishment. Doing away with judgment and punishment will lead to societal decline. Doing away with laws in order to avoid having to judge is a fool's plan. It is moral and intellectual laziness.
The epitome of Modern politics is to claim credit for giving a minority of society a benefit while dismissing concerns of the societal costs as bigotry / racism. But there is always a cost! Wokeism is the taking of minority rights to the extreme - that anything that benefits even just one person is worth doing no matter the cost to the larger population.
What are the costs of extreme individual accommodation? Read the Nellie Bowles article. It is a story of massive failure. The politicians are at fault but the citizens deserve blame - they elected the politicians who junked principles of civil society. Good for the citizens of San Francisco for trying to correct their mistake. I wish the citizens of Baltimore would show similar wisdom.
Nellie, wife of Bari Weiss, writes (so well):
"San Franciscans are now saying:
We can want a fairer justice system and also want to keep our car windows from getting smashed. And: It’s not white supremacy to hope that the schools stay open, that teachers teach children, and, yes, that they test to see what those kids have learned."
Seems like preparation for a huge electoral wipeout of Democrats coming in Nov. Which I hope for, so want to hear more about why it might not happen.
When voters stop voting Democrat, we'll see in the vote count that they're learning.
Too bad she didn't find any folk also saying: "wanting Voter ID laws, like virtually all other global democracies, to avoid real and imagined voter fraud, is not voter suppression."
She didn't mention Biden's many many actual failures (gas prices, Afghanistan, Covid lockdown, huge inflation), but was able to bad mouth Trump in an offhand way:
"Trump’s shadow seemed to loom over even the smallest local office. "
Trump was demonized so much by so many Dems, that anybody anti-Trump was considered good. I note that Arnold, too, still demonizes Trump more than honestly criticizing Biden's policies & results in comparison.
Trump's "mean tweets" are gone - also many of his policies that were producing GREAT results.
Trump was doing more deregulation than anybody since Reagan; not mentioned, possibly not thought of, by Arnold.
I was NeverHillary in 2016; then became against the anti-Trump criticism not based on results. That's not "moral ire", it's more an attempt at intellectual honesty. Which so many anti-Trump intellectuals seem to avoid actually noting.
‘… progressive-libertarian nihilism, of the belief that any intervention that has to be imposed on a vulnerable person is so fundamentally flawed and problematic…’
But not when imposed en masse on healthy people and children, when it is done with great gusto and brutality.
Funny old World.