“Unfortunately the noble vision of the “Ownership Society” was exploited by criminal predators who gamed the relaxed lending standards required to implement the vision, and turned the noble potential into a nightmare of systemic corruption whose a$$paper fruits are still poisoning the global financial infrastructure.”
Noble visions can endure for centuries...on paper. In practice, they die before sundown on the first day.
Idealism is an intellectual disorder, in that it rejects the real in favor of fantasy; for instance the idealist will favor “social justice” over actually-existent natural justice, thus directly leading to systemically imposed injustice.
Idealism is a totalitarian virtue only.
>>Idealism is an intellectual disorder,
"We have Nicaragua, soon we will have El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Mexico. One day, tomorrow or five years or fifteen years from now, we're going to take 5 to 10 million Mexicans and they are going into Dallas, into El Paso, into Houston, into New Mexico, into San Diego, and each one will have embedded in his mind the idea of killing ten Americans."
--Thomas Borge, Nicaragua Interior Minister as quoted in the Washington Times, March 27, 1985
Is that mere Idealism or a developing reality that requires countermeasures?
America doesn't put human heads on pikes. If you have a problem with that then pack your tribal shyte and head for Somalia - and send us a report about how well it really works in practice.
>>Idealism is an intellectual disorder,
Says the Liberaltardian in Canuckistan.
FAIL.