Liberals Do Not Understand America
How to think like a liberal--Follow the staggering steps Unwashed progressivel Michael Tomasky demonstrates what is wrong with statist liberalism. He describes a dinner party he attended where they engaged in a discussion of communities and the role of government in them: Then a woman I didn't know spoke up. She was southern. She was very friendly and chatty. She said she was all for beloved communities. But what was clear to her, the really important point, was that in the good old days, those communities had nothing to do with government. And when we started thinking it did was when it all went wrong. It was a small group, so I was polite and didn't say anything, but what I thought was: you idiotic, irresponsible, egotistical cretin. Nothing to do with government? Let's go ask the black people of your age cohort and home town whether they felt part of a beloved community, and let's ask them whether they think government had anything to do with the c...