Forgive, if you are so inclined, but do not forget. "It’s fearful to consider how much of our law and Constitution just seemed to evaporate and how swiftly and completely it was replaced with the Absolute Sovereignty of Liberal Professional Class Conventional Thinking, however brain-dead or self-serving."
He's Crazy Bernie for a reason. “At a time of massive income and wealth inequality, when 60 percent of people live paycheck to paycheck, millions of Americans cannot afford higher education, and 40 percent of our nation’s 4th graders and 33 percent of 8th graders read below basic proficiency, it is a national disgrace that the Trump Administration is attempting to illegally abolish the Department of Education and thus, undermine a high-quality education for our students.” The undermining is made in Washington by bureaucrats.
Good intentions do not guarantee good outcomes. Fallacies aren't made factual through constant repetition. Get over your preening and moral superiority. No people can be pushed indefinitely without them pushing back.
Experts have only themselves to blame for the distrust of institutions. Our expert classes have torpedoed so much of their credibility. Trust, once lost, is hard to earn back.
The weekly round-up of mostly pithy elaborations on traditional Cold Spring Shops themes follows.
2. Well, Democrats. "Democrats wonder: why doesn’t anyone trust the government anymore?" Reap what you sow. "Now we hear complaints, some of them plausible, that Trump and Elon Musk are destroying institutions possessed of expert wisdom and elite credentials. It's understandable, given recent history, that many Americans are putting little stock in those complaints."
3. High on your own supply? "If you are truly convinced that everyone else is dumber than you, it is you who have succumbed to a delusion. It’s an unfortunate consequence of that misbelief that you’re also likely to be the last one to know it." Reap what you sow. "A tirade against our position does not change our opinions. But now we think a bit less of you because you think so little of us."
5. Bad science. "Mobility is a public good."
6. Politics. "Democrats don't actually have principles regarding Senate rules—they have convenience. When the filibuster helps them, it's essential for democracy."
7. Hidebound Democrats. "The larger problem for Dems is that they still cling to the Biden-Harris agenda of big government, high taxes and soft on crime and illegal immigration." Plus mentally disturbed boys in girls' sports.
8. Squeaky is no chess-player. “The problem with the AOC side is they never answered Chuck Schumer's core argument, is that if we shut down the government, Donald Trump will have expanded power to furlough all these nonessential workers, and he will never bring them back.”
9. Sixty years of institutional decay, with Columbia as microcosm. "Most academics with busy lives want to avoid endless meetings with their colleagues, so most professors aren’t rushing to join the senate. In recent years, the senate has attracted those of an activist bent, who are willing to put up with tedium in service of a higher cause." That higher cause? "Harvard has to offer remedial math classes."
10. Ronald Reagan correctly diagnosed the problem. "Since the 1960s, American distrust of government has been matched by a massive expansion of governmental intrusion."
12. Generate rents, then dissipate them. "The idea of a neutral, nonpartisan class of experts and bureaucrats was always a fiction."
13. I refer to infantile leftism for a reason. "the Left took the opportunity to march around in their poopie diapers and tell America that all they know how to do is destroy things."
14. March madness. "Anyone care to explain how the Badgers nabbed a No. 3 seed and the Wolverines settled for the No. 5?"
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