A Common Sense American - Thomas Sowell

By

M. Richard Maxson

      

     A great commentator on America has just retired from public life. Thomas Sowell is an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author, whose

books include Basic Economics. He is currently senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His vision of American society and world events is unparalleled in it's clarity and common sense. The prolific libertarian economist's vast body of work is a clear rejection of all the Leftist intelligentsia hold dear. Sowell's groundbreaking academic analyses of these Socialist programs in the U.S. and around the world exposed how elites profit mightily at the expense of the alleged beneficiaries of government-coerced affirmative action.

       

      He was a citizen of the world and skin color and partisan loyalty didn't dictate his thinking. He embraced time-tested, transcendent principles grounded in the reality of how things really are -- as opposed to the fantastical imaginings of what he distinctly called the "Vision of the Anointed." (i.e. Democratic Socialists)

     

     

      He made clear that as prestigious schools such as the University of California, Berkeley congratulated themselves for manufacturing "wonderfully diverse" student bodies ostensibly to make up for the legacy of American slavery, (which Sowell pointed out was in no way unique to either the American South or blacks), he reported that more than 70 percent of black students at UC Berkeley failed to graduate.

       His publications entitled “Random Thoughts“ inspired our column “Neglected Truths“. These are a few of his thoughts that contain so much truth and reality in this world of false narratives.

• "In order that this relatively small group of people can believe themselves wiser and nobler than the common herd, we have adopted policies which impose heavy costs on millions of other human beings, not only in taxes, but also in lost jobs, social disintegration, and a loss of personal safety. Seldom have so few cost so much to so many."

• The NAACP's decision to back the teachers' unions, who donate money to them, against charter schools that provide thousands of black children their only hope of a better life, means that the NAACP should no longer be considered part of the civil rights movement, but just another part of the race hustling racket.
  
• What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

• Have you noticed that there seem to be an ever growing number of things that we are not supposed to say in public?

• If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

• Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

• If what you want from politicians are quick and easy answers, someone is sure to supply them, regardless of which party you follow. History can tell you where quick and easy answers lead. But, if you don't want to bother reading history, you can just wait and relive its catastrophes
  
• Global warming, due to greenhouse gasses, is the latest in a long series of one-factor theories about a multi-factor world. Such theories have often enjoyed great popularity, despite how often they have turned out to be wrong.
  
• According to the Washington Post, record numbers of college students say that they plan to engage in protests. Our educational system may not teach students much math or science, but students learn from gutless academic administrators that mob rule is the way to get what you want — and to silence those who disagree with you.

• People who are willing to consider virtually any conceivable excuse for criminals' acts cut no slack at all for decisions that police have to make in a split second, at the risk of their lives. For some people, it is not enough that cops put themselves at risk to protect the rest of us. They want cops to risk their lives for the sake of handling criminals more gently.
  
• At last we have reached the point where we can say, "Next year this time, Obama will not be president." But the disasters he leaves behind will plague us for years to come. And some of those disasters may strike even before he is gone.
  
• Historians of the future, when they look back on our times, may be completely baffled when trying to understand how Western civilization welcomed vast numbers of people hostile to the fundamental values of Western civilization, people who had been taught that they have a right to kill those who do not share their beliefs.
  

       We can only go back into the archives for more of his timeless wisdom. They can be found on his website here: http://tsowell.com/. He is one of the leading Patriots modern America has produced. His clarity of observation on the insanity around us will surly be missed.