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Originally Posted by glebo
Now if that's not driving the point home, if he uses it...I don't know what will.
Great comparison...
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Well that has always seemed to be the most frustrating point...we have examples of what happens when liberal vs. conservative policies are followed in plenty of places.
It's not that difficult to account for other considerations and present a fairly consistent pattern. Leftist polices not only yield poor results in mixed areas (by mixed I mean among areas which are comprised of both conservative and liberal leaning individuals) but even in areas where the vast majority of people are liberals.
Even in liberal bastions like Sweden you are seeing greater privatization of services precisely because they eventually reach a breaking point. It flies against the liberal mindset that centralized economic control and redistribution would produce better corporate results if only people could be made to understand them better and put aside their own narrow self interest.
Many places in Europe are held up as examples to Americans by our own left as demonstrations of a better "community spirit" with little to no consideration for what that actually means and what sort of results it has produced.
California is our own little experiment of what happens when leftist ideology is permitted to dominate. We have reached a tipping point in CA where producing people have given up attempting to fight the system and are simply relocating at the same time that non producing people are pouring in. It is a guarantee that when faced with this predicament, California will not attempt to change its course of action but will rather look to the federal government to subsidize its poor policy decisions at the expense of those states who have done a far better job managing their resources through a freer system.
I wonder if the broader lesson will actually be understood by liberals... their polices fail to work, not because people oppose them...but ultimately because they are dependent upon the hard work and efforts of those whom they harm. So while a society of limited government conservatives can coexist and thrive, a society of central planning leftists eventually pushes out the very thing it depends upon for its sustenance.
In theory... the worst thing that could ever happen to the liberal state...is for them to win the philosophical argument in the minds of producers and convert them, thus killing the host that makes their existence possible.
just my .02