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.
FB Post today. I began my study this morning in the Apostle Paul's first letter to the church in Corinth. I was struck by the question posed by Paul in 1st Corinthians chapter 1 verse 20. "Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?" Ponder these words as you go about your day. Think of what we are fed concerning the world we live in. Do the words of worldly wisdom ring true to what the Bible's wisdom teaches.(The Bile best-selling, yet the most misunderstood book by many) . This Bible has been written through oral tradition and manuscript over a period of 3500 years. Yet when the last author, the apostle John, died near the end of the first century, the wisdom and meaning has not changed. Does that worldly wisdom meet such a standard?
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.
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.
Yep, the left is in a sad state of affairs these days and seemingly getting worse. I'd say they should adopt the playbook of the right (not actually having any policies and putting their most radical performance artists into office) but I don't want them to actually be successful
Thank you for this. What frosts me more than anything about this tendency for Democrats to make up these absurd mythological deflections is that highly-educated leftists adopt them very quickly as their arguments and then weaponize with rhetorical talking points around them. The MSM also adopts them.
The ability for Democrats to mainstream the irrational and absurd is unprecedented. This is why many of them have lost interest in honesty. The Democrat agenda end justifies any means and since any means is protected by the Uniparty propaganda system, they can just manufacture untruth to power at any point and for any topic. A good example is the hair splitting excuses for the Biden classified document fiasco. Even the MSM is struggling a bit with this one given the blatant double standard. But the liberals I debate have adopted the mythology that since Biden cares about classified documents and there are fewer of them, it isn’t a big deal.
Wildfires: From Indian Affairs: In Indian Country, arson and debris burning are the leading causes of wildfires in areas where vegetation interfaces with urban structures. On average, human-caused wildfires account for 80% of all wildfires that occur in Indian Country every year.
From National Geographic: The biggest threat to fires are humans. Carelessness, hot metal on dry brush, cigarettes, and ARSON to continue the burning, camp fires, etc.
From PBS (Judy Woodruff), which is not a Conservative News site. THIS ONE IS IMPORTANT TO READ. "P G & E Utilities in California neglected its duties." By the judge's accounting, while on probation, PG&E has set off 31 wildfires, killing 113 Californians, burning nearly 1.5 million acres, and destroying almost 24,000 structures. The utility is blamed for some of the biggest fires in the state's history, including the summer's Dixie Fire in Northern California, which burned more than 963,000 acres and destroyed 1,300 structures.
The utility is also charged in the Zogg Fire in 2020 that killed four people. The company pleaded guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter in the deadly Camp Fire of 2018, which destroyed the town of Paradise. Your silent news media will not report the truth.
But it is the Government's playing field that caused PG&E to do the things that ultimately caused the fire. It is the height of hubris and arrogance to blame others for failure when they were playing by your rules.
California and the Federal Government forced the implementation of renewable energy on a timeline the forced PG&E to neglect their infrastructure in favor of putting up windmills or get fined.
I love the Thomas Sowell quote from Frank Lee, above... “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.”
FB Post today. I began my study this morning in the Apostle Paul's first letter to the church in Corinth. I was struck by the question posed by Paul in 1st Corinthians chapter 1 verse 20. "Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?" Ponder these words as you go about your day. Think of what we are fed concerning the world we live in. Do the words of worldly wisdom ring true to what the Bible's wisdom teaches.(The Bile best-selling, yet the most misunderstood book by many) . This Bible has been written through oral tradition and manuscript over a period of 3500 years. Yet when the last author, the apostle John, died near the end of the first century, the wisdom and meaning has not changed. Does that worldly wisdom meet such a standard?
My husband is a psychiatrist but I'll tell you he doesn't subscribe to the "progressive" version of science.
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.
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.
Key statement, the left ideas/failures “are unchallenged by the MSM”. How do we help that to change?
Yep, the left is in a sad state of affairs these days and seemingly getting worse. I'd say they should adopt the playbook of the right (not actually having any policies and putting their most radical performance artists into office) but I don't want them to actually be successful
Thank you for this. What frosts me more than anything about this tendency for Democrats to make up these absurd mythological deflections is that highly-educated leftists adopt them very quickly as their arguments and then weaponize with rhetorical talking points around them. The MSM also adopts them.
The ability for Democrats to mainstream the irrational and absurd is unprecedented. This is why many of them have lost interest in honesty. The Democrat agenda end justifies any means and since any means is protected by the Uniparty propaganda system, they can just manufacture untruth to power at any point and for any topic. A good example is the hair splitting excuses for the Biden classified document fiasco. Even the MSM is struggling a bit with this one given the blatant double standard. But the liberals I debate have adopted the mythology that since Biden cares about classified documents and there are fewer of them, it isn’t a big deal.
Wildfires: From Indian Affairs: In Indian Country, arson and debris burning are the leading causes of wildfires in areas where vegetation interfaces with urban structures. On average, human-caused wildfires account for 80% of all wildfires that occur in Indian Country every year.
From National Geographic: The biggest threat to fires are humans. Carelessness, hot metal on dry brush, cigarettes, and ARSON to continue the burning, camp fires, etc.
From PBS (Judy Woodruff), which is not a Conservative News site. THIS ONE IS IMPORTANT TO READ. "P G & E Utilities in California neglected its duties." By the judge's accounting, while on probation, PG&E has set off 31 wildfires, killing 113 Californians, burning nearly 1.5 million acres, and destroying almost 24,000 structures. The utility is blamed for some of the biggest fires in the state's history, including the summer's Dixie Fire in Northern California, which burned more than 963,000 acres and destroyed 1,300 structures.
The utility is also charged in the Zogg Fire in 2020 that killed four people. The company pleaded guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter in the deadly Camp Fire of 2018, which destroyed the town of Paradise. Your silent news media will not report the truth.
But it is the Government's playing field that caused PG&E to do the things that ultimately caused the fire. It is the height of hubris and arrogance to blame others for failure when they were playing by your rules.
California and the Federal Government forced the implementation of renewable energy on a timeline the forced PG&E to neglect their infrastructure in favor of putting up windmills or get fined.
I love the Thomas Sowell quote from Frank Lee, above... “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.”
it started in the garden with Adam, casting blame onto God for the woman he gave...