Four reasons they’re effective.
The Millennials are mostly ignorant of history in general, and certainly of that of the 90s. If Hillary is the nominee, they should get some education.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Ideology
Now trumps all:
This is extremely bad news for America because it is very hard to have an effective democracy without compromise. But rising cross-partisan hostility means that Americans increasingly see the other side not just as wrong but as evil, as a threat to the very existence of the nation, according to Pew Research. Americans can expect rising polarization, nastiness, paralysis, and governmental dysfunction for a long time to come.
This is a warning for the rest of the world because some of the trends that have driven America to this point are occurring in many other countries, including: rising education and individualism (which make people more ideological), rising immigration and ethnic diversity (which reduces social capital and trust), and stagnant economic growth (which puts people into a zero-sum mindset).
This is extremely bad news for science and universities because universities are usually associated with the left. In the United States, universities have moved rapidly left since 1990, when the left-right ratio of professors across all departments was less than two to one. By 2004, the left-right ratio was roughly five to one, and it is still climbing. In the social sciences and humanities it is far higher. Because this political purification is happening at a time of rising cross-partisan hostility, we can expect increasing hostility from Republican legislators toward universities and the things they desire, including research funding and freedom from federal and state control.
They’ve made their bed.
Corporate Profit Margins
The public thinks it’s 36% on average. This kind of ignorance and innumeracy is why they think we can solve our fiscal problems by “taxing the rich.”
Cultural Libertarianism
Will 2016 be the year of the defeat of the Social Justice Warriors?
Had progressives wanted to stem the tide of cultural libertarianism, the time to do it was a year ago. They could have edged back, been reasonable and won us all over. But instead they doubled down. Fine: now they get to lose. Let’s defend culture and free expression and push these odious halfwits back into their dreary studio apartments filled with cat-piss and alt rock records and let them know that we’ve decided to opt out of the soft bigotry of San Francisco-style nonsense. We possess a working sense of humour and we’re going to use it whether they like it or not.
Let’s hope. He’s a good general to lead the charge.
Why Leftist Men Treat Women Worse
It’s because they let them get away with it.
But then, the misogyny of the Left goes back decades.
[Update a while later]
I will not stop talking about this. Good for you, Kat.
I’d never actually seen such a complete list of the women that Bill (and Hillary) Clinton abused.
#ProTip Bill Clinton was not impeached for "lying about sex in a consensual affair." Go read the articles of impeachment, morons.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) December 30, 2015
[Update a few minutes later]
times have changed and morality with it. I don’t think Bill, and certainly Hillary, would want Juanita Broaddrick brought up at a time when, on our campuses, even an unwanted kiss is legally considered rape, thanks to Title IX. Can you imagine how many instances of what is called “unwanted touching” could come out of the woodwork now if Bill started to pick a fight with Trump? It’s hard to imagine Clinton making it through Georgetown or Yale Law under today’s rules, or even through his freshman year.
And he got away with raping that young woman at Oxford.
[Update a few minutes later]
Mark Steyn: A tale of two Bills.”
It’s Not Cecil Rhodes
It’s the cult of victimization that must fall.
You cannot imagine the depth of my lack of interest in the feelings of physically mature children, who clearly don’t belong in college.
Star Wars
…and the age of the fake nerd.
I suppose that’s still better than taking pride in your ignorance of math, as some do. As I noted on Twitter yesterday, it’s OK to like Star Wars, as long as you don’t delude yourself that it’s science fiction.
[Wednesday-morning update]
Star Wars TFA has a perfection problem. Note (FWIW) that Megan is married to SF film critic Peter Suderman.
[Bumped]
Economics 101
As long as we have prices, the government will have a budget. And reducing the interest rate on loans with a high delinquency rate compared to other loans means that we will have less money to do something else. Giving people free tuition will also mean that the government will have less money to do something else — a lot less money. Sanders tries to deal with this problem by conjuring hundreds of billions worth of imaginary tax revenue out of thin air, but alas, the actual president will have to find real money, taken from some other use. Is subsidizing the folks who are going to end up as the best-off members of society really what we would choose to use that money for?
He was told there would be no economics.
[Update a while later]
Bernie Sanders: The economics of a toddler, and the ethics of a thug.
In other words, a typical leftist.
[Mid-afternoon update]
Sort of related: A liberal professor has given up on academia.
[Wednesday-morning update]
Last link was broken, fixed now.
The War On (Some) Drugs
This is outrageous:
…of course, we can’t have the media looking into critical public safety initiatives like “Operation Constant Gardener.” If such scrutiny revealed that cops consider merely shopping at a garden supply store to be suspicious behavior, that drug testing field kits are more about circumventing the Fourth Amendment than accurate results or that a sheriff’s boast of having shut down a drug operation run by an “average family” in a “good neighborhood” was actually a terrifying raid in which SWAT cops held two kids at gunpoint because their mother enjoyed drinking tea … well, some people might begin to question the wisdom of the drug war.
I hope they win on appeal.
Women And Gaming
Lauren Southern explains capitalism to a moron.
My theory is that the guys like the shooters because it’s like hunting, and the women like Pacman because it’s gathering. With many exceptions, of course.