[yldstrk]

very practical advice

[cuban leaf]

Tens of millions of dollars are collected every year from people who didn’t come to a full stop at a red light. The hard left calls this regressive, because people must pay whether they can afford it or not; hardliners would point out that if they can’t afford a ticket, they can just come to a full stop. It’s not rocket science.

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That’s an interesting comment. I think everyone hates them. I’m so far right I consider Fox news to be liberal. The city is taking advantage of the fact that people are not robots and there is no need to come to a “full stop” before making a free right turn at red light and virtually nobody does it. Just like where I live, anyone driving the speed limit is considered a slow poke, and extremely rare.

[mjp]

Tell a Big City Pol that there’s another way – that we can cut the size of government so we don’t need to tax as much – and they’ll look at you in horror or confusion.

Different political ideas and political systems are the result of different modes of thought. Freedom,natural rights, and capitalism are the products of an integrated mode of thought based on reason and reality, while socialistic totalitarianism is a product of a mode of thought that is misintegrated.

And egalitarianism,social justice,redistributionism,nihilism,environmentalism, pluralism,welfare statism,utilitarianism,pragmatism,eclecticism are products of a disintegrated mode of thought.

When one has a mode of thought that is misintegrated or disintegrated, one will naturally be horrified or confused by reason and reality.