Progressives Concoct Mythologies To Explain Policy Failures
Progressives are actively concocting mythologies to explain an increasingly unexplainable world as their policies continue to fail across the globe.
It’s not that California is suffering from forest fires because they ignored basic forest management 101, it’s because of climate change.
It’s not that public school students are falling behind as teachers’ unions prioritize woke ideology ahead of education, it’s because America is racist.
It’s not that we’re having global energy crises because we divested of fossil fuels to appease environmentalists before we found a replacement, it’s because those dumb rednecks won’t give up their F-250s.
These mythologies are becoming pervasive in every aspect of life. Take a moment and watch.
Great quote by Thomas Sowell: “It is hard to imagine a more stupid and dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
I think Democrats generally know their track record for being wrong, but are unchallenged by the MSM and since their politics are adopted as their religion, they cannot admit they are wrong because it messes with their faith. But Sowell is correct in that they are dangerous in charge because of this. They are prone to taking us down a downward spiral of mounting mistakes in policy but they either double down on the same, or they shift to another approach that is just another version of the same mistake.
In my liberal college town the budget is a mess because of overpaid city government pay and benefits and a lack of new housing and lack of commercial development to help increase tax revenue. Yet the city leaders elected keep raising the pay of government workers and keep voting to block new development. They raided the roads budget to pay teachers. The teachers still complain about not being paid enough and the roads are 3rd world status and getting worse.
Agreed. The corollary to their “belief” system is that despite consistently increasing spending on their failed solutions to problems such as public education is that they then claim that the failure is due to underspending and that a budget increase is needed to solve the problem.