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发帖数: 38600 | 1 50 YEARS OF FAILURE
http://www.freemansperspective.com/50-years-failure/
So, I know what people in that time were hoping to get out of politics…
what they firmly believed they would get out of politics. Here’s the list:
A solution to the race problem.
An end to a pointless war.
A solution to the Middle East problem.
To improve education.
A solution to the problems of poverty and welfare.
An elimination of police brutality.
The race problem
Race problems have shifted over the past 50 years, but they are still very
much with us. And when I say “shifted,” I mean this: If you go to the
towns of the American South that were considered the cores of racism (in
those days it was called “bigotry”), you’ll find that black and white
people generally get along pretty well; far better than they did in the
1960s.
Where racial tension survives and thrives these days is in the realm of the
political and because of political actions. The typical white hater of the
’60s derided Negroes as being bad by nature. The “angry white men” of
modern times are upset that their money, jobs, and opportunities are stolen
via politics and handed to other people. (There is of course a residue of
just plain hate.)
The bottom line here is that politics is keeping racism alive. And if the
truth is to be honestly faced, this is because a large number of political
operatives would have no job if racial prejudice evaporated. It behooves
them to keep it going.
Verdict: Fail.
Pointless war
Vietnam goes, Iraq and Afghanistan come, and Syria may be next; ho hum, just
another season in the long march of the military-industrial complex.
Verdict: Fail.
The Middle East problem
Israel, the Arabs, bombs, terrorists, dictators… which decade’s headlines
are these?
Verdict: Fail.
Education
Test scores since the 1960s have steadily fallen; teachers’ unions have
become ever-more rapacious and arrogant, colleges ever-more expensive. Metal
detectors now adorn school buildings, teachers are forbidden to adapt the
curriculum to the students, etc.
Verdict: Fail.
Poverty and welfare
More people are on more welfare programs than ever before… and in the face
of ever-declining scarcity in the world. And again, armies of political
operatives would lose their jobs if these problems ever went away.
Verdict: Fail.
Police brutality
Eric Garner, intensely violent and overly used SWAT teams, and an ever-
increasing list of innocent victims.
At the same time, every evening’s television shows laud “law enforcement”
as our true and great saviors. Police departments are laden with bigger,
deadlier tools and massive budgets. All of this while Acton’s dictum (“
Power corrupts…”) remains.
Verdict: Fail. | x****d
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