Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

Most Americans agree there should be different standards for different classes: children have fewer rights than adults; felons have fewer rights than innocent; military have fewer rights than civilian.

Not so with Liberals. It’s taken for granted that Liberals have more rights than the rest of us, and the Queen Liberal, like the Boy Emperor, have ultimate rights including the right never to be doubted and certainly not prosecuted.

I suspect the double standard of preferential treatment toward Hillary’s email problem cost her more than Democrats will admit.

Joe Doakes

I suspect that a fair part of the left thinks of media and other lefty groupthink sort of like a court system; once their starchamber has decided, the issue is over.

I think this past election showed that, at least for now, it’s not true.

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January 6, 2017

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Mitch Berg

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59 responses to “Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others”

Emery Incognito

January 9, 2017

I was just going over some ECON 101 but it was good that you had a chance to let all that out. It’s not healthy to hold it all in. 😉

While I think you may be critiquing an overgeneralization in places, yes, America’s struggle is, 70 years after WW2, to understand that the huge advantages it found itself with in 1946 allowed 2 generations to prosper while coasting, essentially. The third generation is now struggling, but it is a normal struggle, one that faces most countries most of the time. Many (not all) Americans need to get over themselves and work harder to achieve the prosperity they feel the world owes them.
Emery Incognito

January 9, 2017

Troy, sorry I didn’t mean to ignore you. Why would I want to stop you from making a fool of yourself?

In short: Nice work, Sherlock
bikebubba

January 9, 2017

Emery, given that the relationship between employment and stock markets is given in some more advanced macroeconomics classes, your claim that you’re just covering Econ 101 is a brilliant picture of your economics knowledge. Not a complimentary picture, but brilliant nonetheless.

Personally, I have the hope that things could get a lot better for an awful lot of people if artificial barriers to their employment could be reduced. Given that I can recite a list of artificial barriers, I not unreasonably conclude that it’s quite possible.
Emery Incognito

January 9, 2017

My apologies, I assumed you had read my comments starting @ 1/7 2:52. That said, you have a great week. Me: I’m in the UP (Ironwood and Houghton) training for the Birkie.
Mammuthus Primigenius

January 10, 2017

Emery, these aren’t normal times. They have not been normal since the beginning of the industrial revolution.
Check out the second graph, “The World Until 2000”: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2163610/Fascinating-new-graph-shows-economic-history-world-Jesus.html
There is no normal economic time to return to.
Money is in constant state of flux. With every transaction, wealth flows from one person or entity to another. In a free society, how do you keep wealth from flowing from labor to capital, faster than capital flows back to labor? How do you stop the 1% from owning 99% of everything? The closest Adam Smith came to an answer to this question was to suggest that it was important to keep economic growth high. With high economic growth, demand for labor grows faster than the supply of labor. The cost to capital of labor increases. This is bad from the standpoint of economic efficiency. Efficiency is always going to suffer if you insist that house painters should live in three bedroom houses with two cars in the garage instead of in cardboard boxes down by the tracks.
But it makes for a stable social democracy.
“Many (not all) Americans need to get over themselves and work harder to achieve the prosperity they feel the world owes them.”
This is what the GOP establishment has been telling the working class for decades. As a result, you got Trump.
Joe Doakes

January 10, 2017

Wake up, Troy, you noticed Mitch’s title for this post, right? That’s not just an obscure literary reference, it’s an apt description of some of the commenters here and an instruction for the rest of us.

For example, Emery asked you a question and you failed immediately to answer, in full, with citations to authority acceptable to him. That’s not good enough for Emery. Commenters here are equal but some are more equal than others and that means Emery. He’s Special. He has Needs. People with Special Needs are what kids used to call ‘retards’ back before society got all sensitive and caring. It’s not nice for you to ignore him.

Now I know what you’re thinking: Emery never answers anybody else’s posts, he just blurts the next thing he reads on Slate. Yes, but that’s consistent with being mentally differently abled (see, I can be sensitive, too).

Try to have a little patience, some understanding.
Emery Incognito

January 10, 2017

When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. You’re not convincing anybody with this line of complaint.
justplainangry

January 11, 2017

I am an anybody and it sure convinced me. However, anybody with a modicum of intelligence can see you have been p0wned time and time again and does not need convincing. And since you are divorced from intelligence, you have no way to know when the asshole of your strawman needs replacement.
Emery Incognito

January 11, 2017

Hang on, I’m using my two dozen sock puppet accounts to respond to every comment.

I am definitely a centrist, so I will post on both.