I saw somewhere that somebody of the left-leaning persuasion was aghast that in modern times people could believe in such nonsense. You would think that with all the evidence at one’s disposal, the belief that somehow the stars determine the events of your life would be impossible to buy into to. Yet we still have newspapers prints columns on it every day and the shifting of the Zodiac calendar is considered newsworthy.
Funny, I feel the same thing about those (both left and right) who continue to hold the empirically false belief that the best vehicle for promoting social justice is the government. Bill Quick has a pointer to an article from a Progressive about what Progressive’s believe.
I won’t go through all of them (some of which I agree with), but these are just too silly to let go without comment
2. That essential public services — water, electricity, health care, broadband — should be controlled by the public, not by private corporations. That means public power and single-payer government run health insurance.
The last time I checked with Capricorn, government agencies are staffed by the same human beings that work at corporations. When corruption happens at companies, those involved are generally eligible for criminal charges. When they’re government employees, they’re often protected by the fact that the government isn’t as culpable for maleficence as the private sector.
If I were to tire of Verizon’s poor service for my broadband, I could always switch to Brighthouse or Comcast. Because I could leave for any reason, it behooves Verizon to provide me with the best service at a competitive price, otherwise they would lose too many customers and go out of business. When it’s a government agency, no such quality of service demands. I get tickled at Progressives who rail against the evils of monopolies yet sing the praises of government control, which is a monopoly writ large. Even if you consider Microsoft to have ever been a monopoly, Bill Gates had no power to send armed men to your door to force you to purchase Windows. This isn’t the case with the government.
Enron’s corruption caused their downfall. Corruption in a government agency that delivers the wealth of others generally results in their reelection as they continue to promise the benefits.
3. That the most central problem facing the city, the state, and the nation today is the dramatic upward shift of wealth and income and the resulting economic inequality. … 5. That the right to private property needs to be tempered by the needs of society.
3. That the most central problem facing the city, the state, and the nation today is the dramatic upward shift of wealth and income and the resulting economic inequality.
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5. That the right to private property needs to be tempered by the needs of society.
This is BS so dense, it belongs in the same folder with believing that Leo’s shouldn’t do the humpty dumpty with Pisces due to incompatibility. Americans do not suffer from economic inequality. That’s a made up phrase in a vain attempt to justify theft. That my neighbor makes more or less than I do has no bearing on my quality of life. Americans were well renowned for not having the typical class structured society so prevalent in other countries. A man barely making enough to feed his family is an equal to those living in stately mansions. Americans in general do not believe that a person’s wealth makes the superior or inferior to another. Our politicians have been slowly but surely distancing themselves from being ‘of the people’ and that is where we suffer.
Another BS point about ‘inequality’ is that somehow, everyone having the exact same is a good thing. You know what you call a battery with equal charges at it’s posts?
Dead.
Without inequality, we do not have progress. Without the desire to obtain and consume, we stagnate. That health care you want to give away? Who will provide it when being a doctor, a notoriously difficult career, pays the same as a career in flipping burgers? Where is the incentive to do better in life if you’re guaranteed that the harder you work, the less you will receive? That is what your fantasy delusion in Gemini being multi-dimensionally talented that the laws of Economics can be repealed.
The silliest belief in all Progressive doublethink is that somehow those who are in power do so because they have others’ best interests at heart and that they will never perform any action that benefits themselves over others. Show me a politician that is having a hard time putting food on the table then. Why is is that practically every politician is in that wealthy class that the Progressive’s deride? It’s a lot easier for the rich to get richer when they can just vote in their pay raises or write laws that ensure their interests are never in danger.
At least when people believe that those born under the sign of Cancer are more gifted in love, it doesn’t destroy entire economies. Therefore, I view Astrology as less silly and far less dangerous than progressivism.