Logical fallacies abound
I just heard some ranting leftist in Wisconsin who got her 15 seconds of fame shouting “We’re doing this for the kids." More: “It’s because of unions that we have weekends, the 8-hour work day, and collective bargaining." (Which of those strikes you as not belonging in the list of important innovations, especially for the over-protected class of government employees?) And continuing: “If we don’t do this (protest against Wisconsin Governor Walker’s budget and public sector union reforms), our kids won’t have weekends or 8-hour work days or collective bargaining!”
I loved hearing that because it shows just how ridiculously extreme the left’s goals are. Noboby believes the first two things are at risk, and few believe the last is an important “right", particularly in the public sector.
The main thing likely to beat the left is a growing awareness of what they’re really about. The great awakening of the nation began with the election of Barack Obama, and the result of the initial political indigestion was the November 2010 electoral regurgitation all over Democrats. Wisconsin continues to pour Progressive Ipecac down our throats, with a result predictible to all but those doing the pouring – and you’d think the ones at the most risk, standing right in front of the recipients, would know better.
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02/20/11 @ 04:18:42 pm
First, it looks rediculous for democrats to take off and run. If they believed what they said they did, they would stay and fight. People are ticked about teachers calling out sick. I say, let it go broke. When the checks stop coming in, that will fix it. At the municipal level, there can be bankruptcies which will give the cities a chance to get out of the contracts. The gov of Wis. will be a national hero if he sticks to the plan and doesn't give in, I mean, cave in.
02/20/11 @ 07:01:34 pm
I have two associates, both liberals and one of them a government work (head of the breath test section of the department of toxicology). He wasn't the least bit ashamed to tell me he did not mind paying high taxes. "I want government services," he said. "I want my streets paved, my garbage picked up, and all those other things that government can do." There was no arguing with him that (a) people who don't receive such services have to pay for them too; and (2) government can't continue providing the services if it's broke. I knew he'd just say it's time to raise taxes even more.
My other associate is a secretary at the Indiana University where I am course director. She cares deeply for the "little people," believes very strongly that Democrats are the ones who look out for them, and Republicans are the ones who do not. There is no discussing this with her as he mind has been made up for years. The closest she came to discussing it was when she commented one day that she couldn't "believe I was a Republican."
"What is that?" I asked.
"You just don't act like a conservative. You care for people."
I got it -- Republicans are still ogres to be hated at all costs because they don't care for people; something must have happened to me and therefore I am the exception. But ALL THE REST OF 'EM ARE BAAAAAAAAAD!