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Home Front: Culture Wars
The Left and the law of unintended consequences
2008-06-06
Tim Blair
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THE history of left-wing politics is a history of unintended - and invariably negative - outcomes.

Glorious workersÂ’ revolutions lead to tyranny. Welfare causes misery. Government-funded tertiary education ends up subsidising the same proportion of private school and state school students as previously attended universities under full fees. Public broadcasting evolves into elite programming funded by people who never watch or listen to it. Decades of state film funding gives us films nobody pays to see.

I could go on. Hey, I will:

Environmentalism

Thanks to its capture by leftists - degenerates from a positive save-the-critters movement into a freaky death cult. Multicultural tolerance now extends to tolerating intolerant monocultures. Give the Left a shot at anything and theyÂ’ll wreck it; even something as elemental, safe and proven as nuclear power becomes a molten mess in the hands of commies.

Marxist Hugo Chavez is currently hammering his nationÂ’s economy into the ground despite Venezuela being an oil-rich OPEC nation. Fertile Zimbabwe is dead beneath socialist Robert Mugabe. . . .
Posted by:Mike

#8  Again, methinks the ANTI-US LEFTS, GLOBALISTS, and other AGENDISTS intended for OSAMA + RADICAL ISLAM TO TURN THE ISLAMIST SWORD FROM THE US-WEST AND NOW POINT SOLELY AT RUSSIA-CHINA AND CENTRAL ASIA/ASIA.

ISSUE > DO THOSE COMMIES + LEFTIST RADICAL MILITANT GROUPS PRESENTLY COLLUDING WID RADICAL ISLAMIST ORGS. e.g. COMMIE-MAOISTS in INDIA, SRI LANKA, etc., REALIZE IT YET, that they may de facto lose their heads once ISLAMIST IRAN + MILITANTS = JIHADISM-TERRORISM GOES NUCLEAR 2008-2012???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-06-06 21:35  

#7  Communism turned Germans, Koreans, and Chinese poor while those identical cultural/ethnic groups prospered in Capitalist states next door. This is the perfect political version of a control group and Communism failed the test, Failed it badly. No further proof is needed that Communism just doesn't work and it's insane to see idiots defend it or attempt again and again to make it work.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2008-06-06 16:11  

#6  Boy! This Dan Rather guy...Pretty witty, eh wot?
Posted by: Bobby   2008-06-06 12:45  

#5  It'll be different, this time. Just wait until my boy Barack get into the Oval Office! He'll make things right!
Posted by: Dan Rather   2008-06-06 12:41  

#4  "THE history of left-wing politics is a history of unintended - and invariably negative - outcomes."

Sorry, Tim - I have to disagree with that one.

I think most of the big Lefties did intend the negative consenquences - for everyone else, of course, never themselves and their toadies.

Look at a recent example - AlBore. He lives high on the carbon footprint hog while getting rich demanding the proles voluntarily give up any kind of a decent life and live in caves poverty.

All for his Big Idea of Truthiness,™ of course.

@#$%^&!* them all. And the camels they all rode in on.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2008-06-06 11:30  

#3  All of the dictatorships responsible for mass murder and genocide were/are socialist.

Cambodia, USSR under Lenin and Stalin, Germany under Hitler, Angola, Congo, Zimbabwe...everyone a state sponsored mass murder organization.

I thought liberal meant being more tolerant of new ideas and independent thought........

Silly me.
Posted by: James Carville   2008-06-06 11:24  

#2  When the government does stuff that's outside of it core competence (i.e. force) it fucks it up.

Why is that a shock to anyone?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2008-06-06 10:54  

#1  Aint it great? Turn left for death and despair. Turn right for happiness and prosperity. Got it?
Posted by: Richard of Oregon   2008-06-06 10:08  

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