some thoughts

I wish the blog administrator would make Thinker to Thinker work with ScribeFire Firefox add-0n.

I watch Dick Morris on TV. He is the most accurate political commentator because he is willing to change his opinion as circumstances change. Last night he said the republicans would take over both Houses of Congress. I wonder if he is correct. Time will tell.

I am having the worst seasonal allergy attach ever. My doctor has me on three steroids and some super strong antihistamine and I still have a post nasal drip the size of the Gulf oil spill.

It is even keeping me up at night. It is now 2:03 am cdt in the USA. Just can't sleep well when you keep waking up and coughing and sneezing.

This entry is more like a diary entry than anything else. Well you have to get back into the routine of making entries somewhere.

Why do all entries have to be brilliant essays?

Amazing my mind even works at 2:03 am. I can even type.

Progressivism is a religion.

     Progressivism is a religion. It is based on faith. Faith that somehow if government is big enough, if it has enough programs and bureaucrats, it will achieve utopia here on earth. and that somehow it will be paid for, they don't know how, but I suspect they desire mana from heaven.
     Progressivism is faith based. It is not grounded in any reality. There isn't enough money to pay for the health care bill currently being debated plus all the other current federal spending. There isn't enough money to pay the deficit or the debt or the future commitments of about $107,000,000,000,000, so what are they doing?
     Like a religious fanatic who doesn't understand why the whole world doesn't voluntarily flock to his side, like a communist/socialist dictator who doesn't understand why no matter what he does he has to use secret police to force people to fit into the round holes he has made for their square peg way of thinking, American progressives understand they must use poitical trickery, tactics, and manuveuring to get their ways, that is why the health care bill is mired in closed door negotiations and outright bribes.

Why socialism always fails, another reason

Robert Mugabe, the lunatic dictator of Zimbabwe, saw large industrial farms owned by white people. First, he decided that it was wrong for white people to own huge farms. Second, he decided that the solution to the problem was to take the land from the people who know how to work it and give it to the poor black people that in his mind it was taken away from. So he did it. He took the land from white people and gave it to black people. Of course, because he is a politician, the program was full of graft and corruption. Cronies, relatives, sycophants, military officers, etc. got the land, along with some poor people.

None of them had any idea whatsoever how to run a large farm, and here we get to one of the most important false assumptions of socialism, that all people have equal skills. Socialists , for example, assume that a big problem poor people have is access to capital, access to education, access to all kinds of things like health care. So they come up with government programs that have no basis in reality. They believe you can just give a piece of farmland to anyone and the new owner will work the land productively. Of course, this isn't reality. Look at Zimbabwe.

They believe by having affirmative action, for example, that by making access to higher education easier for minorities it will solve the problem of minorities being under represented in colleges. And, yes, sometimes it works., but all too often it fails and we see the college dropout rate of minorities too high and the resultant destroyed lives from the shame and crushed self-esteem of failure.

When it had absolute power, the PRI socialist party of Mexico just appointed people to positions of power based on politics. A result was that Mexico, an oil rich country, had problems with oil production and gasoline refining due to all the incompetence and corruption of the government owned companies. I don't know if this is still true today.

But that is what socialist do. People are given positions of power or things like farmland and admission to a college based not on their ability but on the concept that you can just give someone something and they know what to do with it.