Random Thoughts - Neglected Truths

By

M. Richard Maxson

Thomas Sowell wrote the column Random Thoughts. With his retirement we have combined his title with our version. Here are some more random observations and truths for your collective consciousness. 

 

• We have a large disconnect in our society in helping people with mental, emotional, and physical challenges and we are obsessed with isolating issues into black and white when most of the time they are not.

• Liberals care much more about policies that make them feel good about themselves than they do about policies that actually make life better for people.

• When the reality is unacceptable, fiction is a refuge.” This is where the blame game and propaganda machine are necessary. All the economic destruction is someone else’s fault.

• Slavery is an undeniable fact of our history. The costly war fought to end it is also a part of the nation's history. Neither will go away through cultural cleansing.

• We live in a society where the normal people who make America work put up with disrespect on a daily basis while we’re told that common sense is “triggering” college students who are going to $40,000 a year schools.

• It continues to defy explanation why liberals who theoretically love liberty, equality, tolerance and moderation, should find so much to despise in their own country, which represents the fullest expression of those virtues anywhere on the globe.

• It’s too bad that we live in a society where basic respect for other human beings has been tossed in the garbage.

• If you want to understand why something is happening in politics, try to figure out who's making money off of it.

• Democrats have become less inclusive. The traditional Democrat Party was a party of diversity, Now? - they don’t really walk the walk.

• Trespasses by Progressives go unaccounted and unpunished while (many) silly stupidities of those right of center are magnified beyond all reason

• We do not live in a democracy, we live in a “corporatocracy,” where corporations are above the government, and the banks are above them.

• The federal government has become an octopus that has inserted its tentacles into every minute crevice of American life, it creates discontent on a wide scale.

• 51% of those polled do not support capitalism which is proof that when we allow honest-to goodness Communists to teach them in college and liberals are publicly extolling the virtues of Socialist hellholes like Cuba and Venezuela, what do we expect?

• Our moral obligation to do good and help people does not extend to making them American citizens and handing them a welfare check.

• Federalism is a safety valve on the American pressure cooker. As long as people in San Francisco can, for the most part, live the way they want to live while the people in rural North Carolina can, for the most part, live the way they want to live, it’s much easier for everyone to get along.