Posted on 04/21/2014 2:03:16 PM PDT by jazusamo
Liberals advocate many wonderful things. In fact, I suspect that most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world envisioned by liberals, rather than in the kind of world envisioned by conservatives.
Unfortunately, the only kind of world that any of us can live in is the world that actually exists. Trying to live in the kind of world that liberals envision has costs that will not go away just because these costs are often ignored by liberals.
One of those costs appeared in an announcement of a house for sale in Palo Alto, the community adjacent to Stanford University, an institution that is as politically correct as they come.
The house is for sale at $1,498,000. It is a 1,010 square foot bungalow with two bedrooms, one bath and a garage. Although the announcement does not mention it, this bungalow is located near a commuter railroad line, with trains passing regularly throughout the day.
Lest you think this house must be some kind of designer's dream, loaded with high-tech stuff, it was built in 1942 and, even if it was larger, no one would mistake it for the Taj Mahal or San Simeon.
This house is not an aberration, and its price is not out of line with other housing prices in Palo Alto. One couple who had lived in their 1,200 square foot home in Palo Alto for 20 years decided to sell it, and posted an asking price just under $1.3 million.
Competition for that house forced the selling price up to $1.7 million.
Another Palo Alto house, this one with 1,292 square feet of space, is on the market for $2,285,000. It was built in 1895.
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Inheritance from second, third or first generation, family. How do you, not suppose, upon, the line of dim-witted property owners?
I think you might be more comfortable going down the hall and taking a left.
I wouldn’t want to be on the 50th floor, when big one hits.
Not quite what he said - he said a world as envisioned by liberals. That is, the believers in the idea that we can create utopia. (Whereas conservatives tend to believe than man is fundamentally flawed and therefore should not be trusted with great amounts of power unchecked.)
No, but there’s a lot of room for more than 4 floors. And a lot of the older buildings aren’t that great for earthquake resistance. I’d rather be in a properly engineered 8 story than a crappy old 3 story.
Near the end of the Soviet Union, when everything was horribly filthy and falling apart, the Soviet tour agency was still taking starry-eyed American leftists around.
It did not matter what they were shown, because instead of a garbage mound, they saw a castle. Instead of horribly polluted rivers, they saw pristine streams, with flowers on the banks instead of rotting fish. Even the tour guides were amazed at their level of delusion, in “the people’s paradise”.
My point is that what liberals envision is not just the ideal world of the future they want; they are just as incapable of seeing reality today the way it is.
For them, America today is a horrific concentration camp, a desolate yet internationally oppressive monstrosity, when run by Republicans; and when Democrats are in charge, they are desperately trying to crawl out of that carnage, by destroying it, with Republicans fighting them every step of the way, for insidious and evil reasons.
When you show them a daisy, they do not see a daisy. If they imagine it to be a Republican thing, then it is a noxious and poisonous, genetically modified monster. But if it is a Democrat thing, it is perfect beauty, yet not in and of itself, but only in how it serves “the cause”.
Delusion all the way around.
So my point is, the world envisioned by liberals is Hell, but so is the world they would create for us today. And yet they are unaware of it all.
Yet for clear sighted conservatives, a daisy is a daisy. So a liberal anything is going to be very bad.
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