Anti-Capitalism: What Republicans and Democrats Have in Common
What do Republicans and Democrats have in common? They both grow the government.
What do Republicans and Democrats have in common? They both grow the government.
Regressives like to give immoral acts an aura of moral legitimacy by noble-sounding expressions, such as “spreading the wealth,” “income redistribution,” “caring for the less fortunate” and “the will of the majority.”
I used to get angrier about such clueless reporting because when I worked at ABC News, editors based entire shows on silly ideas from the Times. Now we have more sources of news, so one newspaper doesn’t matter as much. Thank goodness.
Reasoned thoughts on Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Rodney King.
Liberals desperately need blacks. If the Democratic Party lost just 30 percent of the black vote, it would mean the end of the liberal agenda. That means blacks must be kept in a perpetual state of grievance in order to keep them as a one-party people in a two-party system.
Anniversaries are opportunities to look back at historic turning points, compare the rhetoric of the time with the reality that we now know unfolded — and to learn hard lessons about the difference between rhetoric and reality for our own time.
When the political left wants to help the black community, they usually want to help the worst elements in that community — thugs they portray as martyrs, for example — without the slightest regard for the negative effect this can have on the lives of the majority of decent black people.
Long-term wealth can only be created by earning it: by trading value for value for win-win outcomes.
Regulators call themselves “consumer protectors,” but often their main role is to ban better options.