“A leftist progressive's paradise would be a place where everybody has guaranteed
employment, free comprehensive healthcare, free education,
free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities, and
only law enforcement has guns. And believe it or not,
such a place does indeed already exist: - It's called
Prison". Sheriff Joe Arpaio
“A leftist progressive's paradise would be a place where everybody has guaranteed
employment, free comprehensive healthcare, free education,
free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities, and
only law enforcement has guns. And believe it or not,
such a place does indeed already exist: - It's called
Prison". Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Save for the weapons, Sheriff also described the US Military. I guess this means you have something against all those free loaders in Army Greens?
I really hope you're not seriously citing Joe Arpaio as a hero of intellectual thought. Good lord.
As an aside though maybe if we did a better job of insuring people had better access to these things outside of prison we wouldn't have to lock so many people up.
Essentially what you're saying is that life in prison is better than what many people can hope for living free,
and, who are these "leftist progressives" who think everything should be free?
Is believing that we, like the rest of the world, could spend half as much as we do on health care and have a better system than we do now tantamount to expecting health care to be free?
Is the thought that we might actually come out ahead by subsidizing post secondary education, like we already do secondary education, expecting everything to be free?
I've looked and looked, and still can't find any of those leftist progressives who believe in making the country one huge commune where everything is free.
Reading this thread title, I immediate thought of Venezuela.
I really hope you're not seriously citing Joe Arpaio as a hero of intellectual thought. Good lord.
As an aside though maybe if we did a better job of insuring people had better access to these things outside of prison we wouldn't have to lock so many people up. Essentially what you're saying is that life in prison is better than what many people can hope for living free, so why should they be afraid of being sent to prison? For millions of African American men in this country it seems like drug dealing and other crimes are the only routes to an upper class life outside of basketball or rapping. Maybe if we gave more of them access to the same tools that whites have and stop cutting off ever legitimate route to prosperity we wouldn't have as many problems with crime.
Freedom heavily benefits the strong. In this country straight white christian men have been and still are by far the strongest demographic in the country. If you are one, then you have amazing access. If you are not then you will have to work ten times harder to achieve the same level of accomplishment. Access should not be a function of race, sex, or creed. As a white man myself growing up in a christian family I can tell you that my life has been a virtual cake walk up to this point, and I did nothing special to deserve this except get born into a nice situation. Certainly a parent deserves the right to give their children a head start, but there are too many minorities that are starting with such a tremendous disadvantage that to even achieve middle class status is a long shot.Define “better access.” We claim to be a free country, what more access is needed?
Actually Sheriff Joe said it, not I. I simply am amused at the irony and truth of his statement.
Hey Wonk, a little off topic but what happened to your " California is Killing It " thread?
Its locked for some reason.
“A leftist progressive's paradise would be a place where everybody has guaranteed
employment, free comprehensive healthcare, free education,
free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities, and
only law enforcement has guns. And believe it or not,
such a place does indeed already exist: - It's called
Prison". Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Remind Dittohead not of that, he can't find any leftist, progressive socialism anywhere.
I would say good ol' common sense generally outranks "intellectual thought".I really hope you're not seriously citing Joe Arpaio as a hero of intellectual thought. Good lord.
For the inquisitive here, perhaps you could, in a few short sentences regale us with what those two might be that some of us, on this side apparently, are so far off the mark from properly understanding.When you actually learn what progressivism and democratic socialism actually are - instead of posting what you personally think they are - please come back and let us know.
For the inquisitive here, perhaps you could, in a few short sentences regale us with what those two might be that some of us, on this side apparently, are so far off the mark from properly understanding.
There have been millions of ideas throughout the centuries that have been considered "common sense" at one point only to be obliterated by intellectual thought. The world being flat was considered common sense. The sun revolving around the earth was commons sense. Negro's being nothing but barbarians useful only for slavery was common sense. Women being too irrational to vote was common sense. You'll find that common sense is more just common than it is actually sensical.I would say good ol' common sense generally outranks "intellectual thought".
No, that is what science is used for. Which is an intellectual practice. The so called "common sense" that you seem to be referring to is what we generally call prejudice, closed mindedness and bigotry. It's a belief that because things have been done a certain way and they seem to work out okay that it must remain that way forever even if better ideas come along.Common sense deals most often with the practical aspects of life, best practices, the tried and true.
Intellectual thinking often wanders off the reservation, gets mired in the weeds, finding ways to make wrong somehow not only right, but sometimes even the better choice. Contemplating itself far too much to be of practical help.
I really hope you're not seriously citing Joe Arpaio as a hero of intellectual thought. Good lord.
As an aside though maybe if we did a better job of insuring people had better access to these things outside of prison we wouldn't have to lock so many people up. Essentially what you're saying is that life in prison is better than what many people can hope for living free, so why should they be afraid of being sent to prison? For millions of African American men in this country it seems like drug dealing and other crimes are the only routes to an upper class life outside of basketball or rapping. Maybe if we gave more of them access to the same tools that whites have and stop cutting off ever legitimate route to prosperity we wouldn't have as many problems with crime.
Have you seen the great wall of China? Do you ignore evidence of it's existence too?I lived and grew up in the same neighborhoods as these black folks you are talking about.
This "white privilege" you speak about I have never seen.
I have also seen black kids make bad decisions in their lives that lead to bad results.
I have also seen black kids make good decisions in their lives that led to good results.
Skin color had nothing to do with where either wound up in life.
If you unable/unwilling to even describe what you, yourself, are... and further take no interest in explaining it to another who has asked, this after you criticized another for "not really knowing"... nah, not that interested. Besides which, I think I have it pretty well pegged without the assist.No. Because in my experience, y'all are not at all concerned about actually listening to the other side.
You go do some actual research...meaning NOT just within your right-wing echo chamber that tells you just what you want to hear, and then we'll talk.
If you unable/unwilling to even describe what you, yourself, are... and further take no interest in explaining it to another who has asked, this after you criticized another for "not really knowing"... nah, not that interested. Besides which, I think I have it pretty well pegged without the assist.
Thanks anyhow.
1. Yes, and the prevailing science, Aristotle/Ptolemy/Copernicus' was what made them think these things. And I said good ol, not bad ol, common sense, tried and true. Again, science, bad science, has brought us plenty of ill. Eugenics for one. Phrenology another. Social Darwinism yet another.1. There have been millions of ideas throughout the centuries that have been considered "common sense" at one point only to be obliterated by intellectual thought. The world being flat was considered common sense. The sun revolving around the earth was commons sense. Negro's being nothing but barbarians useful only for slavery was common sense. Women being too irrational to vote was common sense. You'll find that common sense is more just common than it is actually sensical.
2. No, that is what science is used for. Which is an intellectual practice. The so called "common sense" that you seem to be referring to is what we generally call prejudice, closed mindedness and bigotry. It's a belief that because things have been done a certain way and they seem to work out okay that it must remain that way forever even if better ideas come along.
3. Again you operate under the assume that your closed off little "reservation" is obviously superior to the world outside of it despite your apparent fear of traveling outside of it's walls to actually find out. There is a place where they trap people into confines such as this requiring them to behave and think in away that superiors consider "common sense." It's called Prison, and you seem to be voluntarily keeping yourself in it. I pity you.
For millions of African American men in this country it seems like drug dealing and other crimes are the only routes to an upper class life outside of basketball or rapping. Maybe if we gave more of them access to the same tools that whites have and stop cutting off ever legitimate route to prosperity we wouldn't have as many problems with crime.
I've said nothing about Trump or his views on immigrants here. Willing to accuse me of things and unwilling to define yourself... sounds like a bit of navel gazing is in order in your instance.Yeah, you have it "pretty well pegged", just like Trump has immigrants pegged, huh?
Right.
What you have are insults and prejudice. Not knowledge and understanding.
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