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The Mindset of the Left: Part III

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Thomas Sowell
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Editor's note: This is Part III in a series. Part I can be found here. Part II can be found here.

The fundamental problem of the political left seems to be that the real world does not fit their preconceptions. Therefore they see the real world as what is wrong, and what needs to be changed, since apparently their preconceptions cannot be wrong.
A never-ending source of grievances for the left is the fact that some groups are "over-represented" in desirable occupations, institutions and income brackets, while other groups are "under-represented."
From all the indignation and outrage about this expressed on the left, you might think that it was impossible that different groups are simply better at different things.
Yet runners from Kenya continue to win a disproportionate share of marathons in the United States, and children whose parents or grandparents came from India have won most of the American spelling bees in the past 15 years. And has anyone failed to notice that the leading professional basketball players have for years been black, in a country where most of the population is white?
Most of the leading photographic lenses in the world have -- for generations -- been designed by people who were either Japanese or German. Most of the leading diamond-cutters in the world have been either India's Jains or Jews from Israel or elsewhere.
Not only people but things have been grossly unequal. More than two-thirds of all the tornadoes in the entire world occur in the middle of the United States. Asia has more than 70 mountain peaks that are higher than 20,000 feet and Africa has none. Is it news that a disproportionate share of all the oil in the world is in the Middle East?
Whole books could be filled with the unequal behavior or performances of people, or the unequal geographic settings in which whole races, nations and civilizations have developed. Yet the preconceptions of the political left march on undaunted, loudly proclaiming sinister reasons why outcomes are not equal within nations or between nations.

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Just more sage words from a learned gentleman who has pulled himself up by his bootstraps.
 
We see that by the end of the 20th century, Socialist and communist governments abandoned their central planning theories and began allowing more market competition. They succeeded in world competition slowly but surely
We find however that the Progressive Leftists of America were not ready to accept the surrender to realities.
 
Some of this country's most fierce anti-communists were Democrats, read some history dude.
 
Some of this country's most fierce anti-communists were Democrats, read some history dude.

Please list those Democrats that you claim were anti-communists.
Are you referring to Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers? (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)
 
Please list those Democrats that you claim were anti-communists.
Are you referring to Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers? (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)

JFK and LBJ? Truman? Hell even Carter had some success against the communists with the SALT treaties. Heck it would be stupid to claim any US President wasn't an anti-communist.
 
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