Decades ago, F. A. Hayek warned that socialism was the Road to Serfdom. He explained not only why central planning was impossible but how the attempt destroys morality: planning leads to misery and increasing control, then totalitarianism, the corruption of truth, and finally even the ability to articulate it.
Today we are heading down a similar path, recast as the freeway toward “equity” and “justice.” No student should be forced to repay loans, no retiree should be deprived of free hearing aids, and no Asian-Americans should have an advantage in college admissions based on outstanding records.
This is not, we are reassured by Democratic Socialists, the route mapped by the old, mean authoritarians, but a new way toward equal outcomes planned by the Enlightened and the Majority.
Cultural Fire Lines
Progressive tumescence at the turn of the 20
th Century resulted in the 18
th Amendment prohibiting the sale of alcohol nationwide for almost 15 years. It is doubtful that progressive marxists could today get a ratified amendment for any aspect of their value system. Progressivism and modern marxism are not linked to any kind of broad-based widely shared philosophy,
The negative effects of alcohol consumption were visible enough to most people, as a gateway to all kinds of sins. This was an era a hundred years before that of synthetic drugs and the internet, both of which serve similar functions, I suppose. The real history illustrates that Prohibition, its repeal, as with modern Pharma and the internet, all served the perennial interest of the reigning state rather than the culture of the day.
Gutfeld! panel discuss the media s reaction to the crime surge
This is a rush transcript from Gutfeld!, May 6, 2021. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
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DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: You know what? I get people all the time. Oh, God, why are you guys talking about Trump so much? I m sick of talking about Trump or whatever. Because what s happening in the Republican Party and Trump is a big part of it affects all of us right now.
CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: He s more powerful now. He s like Obi-Wan Kenobi.