Peter_Puget Posted May 27, 2005 Share Posted May 27, 2005 read Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mec Posted May 27, 2005 Share Posted May 27, 2005 I don't know how to read... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dechristo Posted May 27, 2005 Share Posted May 27, 2005 An interesting take on the evolution of politics and political parties in the past seventy years. Â The author, in the interest of brevity, explains all in broad strokes, but still, covers well the rise of the "entitlement" and "victim" mentality in modern culture: one of many insidious fruits of a welfare state that has proven pernicious to the development of a sense of empowerment in the individual. Â Overall, a boring article due to the lack of sex, violence, and CGI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_b Posted May 27, 2005 Share Posted May 27, 2005 another hack waxing nostalgic for the age of the unimpeded robber barons telling us that progressivism is dead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter_Puget Posted May 27, 2005 Author Share Posted May 27, 2005 another hack waxing nostalgic for the age of the unimpeded robber barons telling us that progressivism is dead  We should start a "write like J_B contest"!  In his defense, it is tough always being on the wrong side of history. With the French about to reject Chirac and now in Germany "German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is in trouble. In a mess of his own making." ( link ) When Schroeder is given the boot Germany will have as its top two leaders a woman and a married homosexual. All in support of more flexible employment laws, lower spending and lower taxes.  It's not too late J_B move on over out of the dark side- you'll find the airfresher and the people smile more, and acceptence is truly based on the content of your character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_b Posted May 27, 2005 Share Posted May 27, 2005 In his defense, it is tough always being on the wrong side of history. Â the fables coming out of the cato institute certainly don't qualify as history. it should be sufficient to consider your positions on iraq, global warming, fossil fuel energy crisis, etc ... to see what i am talking about. Â With the French about to reject Chirac and now in Germany "German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is in trouble. In a mess of his own making." ( link ) When Schroeder is given the boot Germany will have as its top two leaders a woman and a married homosexual. All in support of more flexible employment laws, lower spending and lower taxes. Â so one hand you have the french poised to reject a conservative pol and on the other german conservatives have to co-opt the advancement of women and gays to sound sexy to the public and this is supposed to be a victory for conservatives? Â on most issues you are waging rearguard battles which you may win temporarily but that won't affect the overall tide of change because the evolution of human societies is resolutely progressive (note the root in progressive). And the corrolary is: the more you overreach in trying to prevent progress, the wilder the backlash (think 60's). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeezix Posted May 29, 2005 Share Posted May 29, 2005 But the plain fact is that modern conservatives have been engaged with the world of ideas to a far greater extent than most modern liberals. The columnist David Brooks has observed that, asked to name influences on their thinking, most conservatives are able to list a number of books or authors, while liberals have difficulty identifying any. Sounds like a scientific poll. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter_Puget Posted May 31, 2005 Author Share Posted May 31, 2005 Wrong side of history.... link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willstrickland Posted May 31, 2005 Share Posted May 31, 2005 You're too funny Puget. Yeah, the currency markets give a shit what side of history Villepin was on WRT to Iraq. Please. Â Did you even read the article you link past the quote from some "freedom-fries" eating winger about Villepin and Iraq? You know, the part of the article where they actually access why the euro is down against the US$? Or should I e-mail you copies of the daily currency report newsletters from the trading desk of Everbank over the past couple of weeks where Butler breaks down the likely moves from a "non" vote? Â C'mon PP, I expect better out of you than this drivel, especially the first piece. EJ Dionne would have a field day with that POS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter_Puget Posted June 1, 2005 Author Share Posted June 1, 2005 try Forbes: Markets also appeared unimpressed by the appointment of Dominique de Villepin as France's new Prime Minister. De Villepin replaces Jean-Pierre Raffarin, who resigned earlier today after France's massive rejection of the proposed EU constitution. De Villepin, a close ally of Chirac for several years, was previously interior minister. Markets had been holding out hope that Raffarin would be replaced by the more reform friendly Nicolas Sarkozy, currently the president of Jacques Chirac's ruling UMP party. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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