Not sure where this guy is coming from but I gave him the following shot "Posted by corvid on 10/25/11 11:33 AM
Somehow I suspect all you guys that write for this blog sell gold or survival food to the rubes. Oh and lose the sweater vest Tony... it makes you look like a Gypsy King"
Well, I can't say I understand how fashion sense is related to understanding global economic and societal trends... but the Dailybell is really more about trend analysis and societal themes (and memes). Modern Progressivism is just another meme they explore.
I mean, since when do matters of personal taste (like sweater vests or condos versus houses) justify self-righteousness...? I guess that's why if I had to pick a politcal label for myself I have to use Libertarian. I simply don't CARE what people wear, or how they choose to live their lives- just so long as they grant me the same privilege. I do enjoy reading/hearing what people think - I would think that should be fairly obvious by how much time I've put into this discussion.
When you bag on Ron Paul in one breath, and then you bag on the criminal global bankers in another, Do you not realize that Ron Paul is the candidate who MOST agrees with you about the unbalanced influence the bankers have on society? But I digress... I'm not here to push the Ron Paul campaign- if the election were held today I'd probably vote for Herman Cain- only because I've seen what a Black President who is clueless about business can do- I'd love to see what a Black President who has actually accomplished something in his life could do... Not that I even care whether a candidate is black or not, but I do know that other people seem to care, so it would be interesting to see how that would go...
My only rub against the progressive mindset Jerry is the elitism factor. I see it from your man in the WH when he blames everyone else for the fact that none of his "plans" are having the intended effects, and I see it from the progressive "this time it's different" Economists (like Krugman, Roubini, et al) when they declare that the best way out of a global debt crisis is to fire up the printing presses and create more debt (or, to fire up the war machine- a seemingly complete contradiction to the whole premise of progressivism. Peace from the barrel of a gun? Didn't Lyndon Johnson teach this country anything about how impossible that is?)
If an idea is really sound in the minds of everyone, then it will stand on its own merit- it will not require the elitist mantra and all the associated demagoguery...
If the Progressives were accurate in their assessments of society, then their ideas would be working, yes? To declare that "We have all the answers, but you small minded little people are to obtuse to recognize our intellectual and emotional superiority" is a cop-out... as is the whole "We inherited your mess, and now we're trying to fix it and you are getting in our way".... BAH.
The only things Obama inherited were the Patriot Act, GWB's two wars and a ton of debt- and his actions ever since have been to expand Homeland Security into the monstrosity it is today (which was the original topic of this thread if I remember correctly
), and also to take the wars on the road to Libya (and seemingly to Iran eventually), and to take what was once only monumental debt and turn it into catastrophic debt; and along the way he passed a socialist healthcare plan that will probably go down as the most unpopular US legislation in history (a HUGE feat considering what a massive abomination the Patriot Act was/is).
I'm no dummy, but even if I WAS a dummy, I'd still be able to see that "Hope and Change" in theory has yielded "unemployment, anxiety, and apprehension" in practice.... and I'd be getting pretty tired of the elitists saying "Trust us- we know what will work better than you do, so we're going to rob from Peter, and pay Paul (for doing nothing)"
With that, I'm drifting right back to post #27 on page 3 of this thread... leeches are bad for productive society, and the only thing worse than a leech is a leech who desperately thinks that his host can not survive without him.
The leeches have got to go.
Ok now I'm repeating myself... so with that I will sign off, and will graciously extend "the last word" to whomever wants it (unless they ask a question- I can't stop myself from responding to questions
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