[adorno]

Liberals love to think of themselves as intellectual and nuanced, but liberalism is incredibly simplistic.

This article itself is very general and simplistic. However, I do agree on the analysis about the generalities and the simple-mindedness surrounding liberal and socialistic ideas.

Why I wanted was a bit more analysis on the economic issue. While liberals are simplistic on the purpose to be served by an economy, the opposition needs to explain why the simplistic and idiotic policies of socialism are counterproductive to an economy and the well-being of those same people advocating socialism and liberal ideas. In today's politics and governmental rule, liberals and socialists are not indistinguishable.

If liberals and socialists actually did any kind or real thinking instead of going with their emotions and what feels good, I doubt that any of them would advocate what socialism represents.

[redhead]

I think the author wanted to express in very clear and un-nuanced terms the childishness of the liberal feeling-process. We have all had to deal with youngsters. Some of those circular arguments go on for days, and do nothing but frustrate us and alienate the child. Sometimes, I’m convinced there is nothing we can do to make anybody change their point of view. As Rush has said, we are going to have to drag Yosemite Sam across the finish line. We can do it by voting FOR SARAH. The alternative is incredibly frightening.

[supercat]

While liberals are simplistic on the purpose to be served by an economy, the opposition needs to explain why the simplistic and idiotic policies of socialism are counterproductive to an economy and the well-being of those same people advocating socialism and liberal ideas.

At the time I graduated college, after having had two semesters of economics, I was a liberal, and I believed that the laws of economics said what would happen unless the government made things behave otherwise. Since then, I have come to realize that in anything resembling a free society, many of the laws of economics say what will happen, period. All the government efforts in anything short of a slave state notwithstanding.

Unfortunately, few people will realize the irony in Obama's acceptance-speech story of a minimum-wage worker who had her hours cut. Had she been allowed to work more hours in exchange for a lower wage, she could have increased her take-home pay at the same time as she was offering a better deal to her employer.