Why Progressives Love Government “Experts”
Progressives have long pushed for a state dominated by a new class of "scientific" experts who are supposedly nonpolitical and pursuing only "good government." It's a fantasy many people still believe.
Progressives have long pushed for a state dominated by a new class of "scientific" experts who are supposedly nonpolitical and pursuing only "good government." It's a fantasy many people still believe.
Though Kuttner thinks the New Deal a great success, he himself lays out some of its many problems.
Forget the notion that the Fed "fights inflation." In fact, the Fed exists to promote inflation.
In the wake of mass shootings, progressives claim that draconian gun laws will stop these tragic events. However, the gun control record in places like Jamaica provides contrary evidence.
Totalitarian societies do not become that way overnight. There are recognizable signs and stages which show how a society slides into that abyss.
Americans are looking at a grim energy future, thanks to government.
Inflation is at a forty-year high, fuel prices are wreaking havoc, and there's no end in sight. Time for Biden to tell us how good we have it.
In seeking membership in NATO, Finland and Sweden seem to believe they will have more military security. But they also are giving up their precious independence.
The proposed WHO Pandemic Treaty is nothing less than an exercise in medical totalitarianism. Welcome to the rule of the medical bureaucrat.
So long as there are governments with stones ready to throw, there will be a need for someone to point out that destruction is never productive, never beneficial, and never a path to the good life that we all seek.