(11-03-2024 09:07 PM)bullet Wrote:  If you want to understand the divide in America, Thomas Sowell has a brilliant book, A Conflict of Visions, that he wrote in the 80s that perfectly describes today.

To try to summarize it in a short paragraph, conservatives believe in a constrained vision of mankind and liberals an unconstrained vision. Liberals think mankind can be trained and "perfected" into perfect beings. In the meantime, experts should tell the rest what to do. And the laws should not apply to experts because the end justifies the means. Conservatives believe people are inherently flawed, greedy and corrupted by power. Thus you need laws to constrain people and encourage them to behave properly. This applies even more to experts because power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

If you think about the Wuhan pandemic, it fits perfectly. And the correctness of the constrained vision was never more apparent with the lies and corruption of the experts.

Expert politicians are the back of the class crowd. Those that couldn’t make it in the business world but have an innate ability to lie. They are not being experts as they serve. They are simply trying to keep power any way they can.

The only thing the expert politicians are good at is mucking things up then promising to fix them.