Progressivism dissected

Arnold Ahlert analyzes the motivations and, more importantly, the consequences of ProgOppressivism.

As the four recent examples, along with others occurring all over the world illustrate, a group of like-minded "thinkers" is emerging.  It is a group composed in equal parts of economic illiteracy and pathological self-entitlement.  Only an utter fool—or a dedicated progressive—would riot or strike because someone else can no longer afford to underwrite your lifestyle.

What part of "running out of other people's money" don't the complainers understand?

 

Such a complete disconnect from reality doesn't happen on its own. 

It is where moral relativism, the cornerstone of progressive thinking, inevitably leads.  Decades of teaching people that the state is their bottomless benefactor hasn't just ruined economies around the globe.  It has ruined the people themselves.  Economies eventually recover.

Can people recover their dignity and character?

RTWT @ Human Events.



(H/T iOTW)