Posted on 11/05/2007 9:49:34 PM PST by smoothsailing
A History of Liberal Disasters
By Jeffrey Lord
Published 11/6/2007 12:07:43 AM
It's a long list.
Add Hillary Clinton's endorsement of driver's licenses for illegal immigrants ("it makes sense") to a very long list.
The list? A seemingly unending series of bad policy proposals and loopy values that liberals have championed during the course of decades. What all of these subjects have in common is that they upended common sense in favor of a fit of moral superiority and emotional feel-goodism. They are a history of liberal disasters. All backfired or were proved dead wrong. Sometimes they were outright lethal. Collectively they are part and parcel of the real reason the once honorable term "liberal" has won such disdain from so many Americans when it isn't being hooted out of a serious policy discussion with laughter. And lying just under the surface of all the current crop of polls that predict a Democrat victory in the race for the White House is the lurking reality that any candidate who makes a point of flying the liberal flag stands a serious chance of being defeated outright. Why, after all, do you think Senator Clinton hemmed and hawed her way through the driver's license issue in last week's debate?
Here's just a handful of my personal favorites:
* Forced School Busing The idea: to raise the education level of blacks by forcibly integrating urban schools with white kids who lived in "segregated" neighborhoods. The result? Disaster.......
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Dont forget they closed the insane asylums. This created a new problem. The insane had nowhere to go, and began roaming the streets as homeless and insane. Even given welfare they can’t manage money or tend to their own needs.
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Left out gun control. Let’s abolish handguns and solve the murder and crime problem!
And socialized medicine.
Could you give more details on that? Who, how, and when?
I’m sure he’s refering to when State Asylums were closed down in the 60s. I know it’s retarded to site Wiki, but any way. You can go from there to do more research
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatric_hospital#Deinstitutionalization
Now a great deal of mental health for crazy people is done in prisons and ERs, where it would have in the past been done at a State Asylum. The old State sytems were far far from perfect, however the current state is probably worse.
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Now bear in mind, PBS would never smack Jimmy carter in the face directly, but earlier the article states “Most of those who were deinstitutionalized from the nation’s public psychiatric hospitals were severely mentally ill. Between 50 and 60 percent of them were diagnosed with schizophrenia. Another 10 to 15 percent were diagnosed with manic-depressive illness and severe depression. An additional 10 to 15 percent were diagnosed with organic brain diseases — epilepsy, strokes, Alzheimer’s disease, and brain damage secondary to trauma. The remaining individuals residing in public psychiatric hospitals had conditions such as mental retardation with psychosis, autism and other psychiatric disorders of childhood, and alcoholism and drug addiction with concurrent brain damage. The fact that most deinstitutionalized people suffer from various forms of brain dysfunction was not as well understood when the policy of deinstitutionalization got under way.”
In reality, the people who suffered from the mental conditions listed in the previous paragraph went from being fed three meals a day, kept warm clean and dry, to being out on the street with no care givers, no food, no warmth in cold weather. and more important, no coping skills to get themselves out of this dilemma that the “compassionate liberals” put them in.
This is a good article. I would like to see the Democrats called to task for the War on Poverty. We’re now 40+ years into that quagmire. Arguably we fought the war on poverty, but poverty won.
Johnson fought poverty and poverty was victorious
You know how much the liberals love defeat!
Modern liberalism is the philosophy of taking the easy way out all the time. Avoiding hard decisions is the natural tendency of libs. Immediately handing candy to the wailing kid is the libs idea of solving the problem. Immediate gratification is their motto.
I’ll take “New Orleans Levee Maintenence” for $1000, Alex.
Then there’s the “quagmire’ in Afghanistan, 19 days after the war began, not to mention the “quagmire” in Iraq, 7 days in.
It goes to prove what one intelligent FReeper opined recently....Liberals never look at the consequences of their actions. We used to call them “do gooders” when I was a kid. Too bad they aren’t doing any good but a great deal of harm.
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IMO, it is more accurate to state that poverty was defeated, but dependence took its place.
Perhaps we need a War on Dependency.
In the beginning there was “right” and “wrong”.
We’ve been compromising in the “wrong” direction ever since.
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