It should be kept in mind that the self-conscious goal of progressive policy is certainty that immediate and comforting outcomes must be achieved. Thus the engineering of profound change must above all be SWIFT and if possible SUDDEN. To permit reflection or prudence to come into the process of change poisons the purpose because they represent caution and forseeability. usually exercised by ordinary thinkers. Consequently, a minority of massive intellect, often astonishingly bereft of wisdom, are the greatest practioners of progressivism.
February 17th, 2010 at 10:50 am
You are too generous in crediting progressives with massive intellect. I assume that you do not include Barbara Boxer in that category.
February 17th, 2010 at 11:26 am
Boxer and Franken and many Senators are of course exceptions. So is Biden and half of more than half of the House, But their handlers are more dangerous and smarter than these buffoons who are mere puppets of their smart and radicalized progressive architecs
February 19th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
How about a brief explanation and critique of Cap & Trade - in language that can be understood by us ordinary citizens?