Debunking Elizabeth Warren — or more generally, the entirety of the left’s rather remarkably unsophisticated understanding of how free market capitalism exists within the American system of governance set up by our Founders and Framers and supposedly protected by our Constitution.
I imagine I wasn’t the only one stunned listening to an Ivy League law professor — who teaches contract law — completely mischaracterize and misunderstand the very economic system within which she plies her trade. And by “stunned,” I mean, of course, not at all surprised: these days, the left in the academy is a self-selecting and incestuous hivemind committed to granting itself and its mouthpieces the legitimacy that once belonged to academic titles associated with intellectual rigor and cutting edge thinking.
Having overrun our institutions and entrenched themselves, they are running yet another con on the American people. Warren’s willingness to open her mouth and so passionately display what can only be described as a startling degree of confidence in her own obvious ignorance should, in a country that prides itself on merit-based achievement, prove absolutely clarifying.
The only problem is, so many of us have been indoctrinated by the likes of Warren — and then had our indoctrination reinforced by the media and by a culture of intellectual relativism and dangerous self-esteem fluffery — that we don’t realize just how uninformed and intellectually incurious we’ve been trained to be.
What I wonder, and do not know the answer to, is whether Scott Brown has the economic equipment himself to take up and beat this woman into a quivering de-intellectualized pulp (without, that is, pasting her with fault in the Red Sox collapse). We’ll see.
What amazing me (or dispirits) is how much Warren makes peddling this bullshit.
I don’t know what Warren is if not Martha Coakley redux. The question is whether the Commonwealth has overcome its monetary lapse into reason.
*momentary*
Monetary sorta work too.
OT: best thing about Twitter? Being frozen out there, too.
Best thing about twitter: I’ll have to get back to you on that.
Best thing about Twitter: What’s Twitter?
Ace just gave you (via twitter) a hat tip.
This morning right-wing talker Mike Gallagher went on and on about the fools protesting Wall Street these days. Mike uttered copious excoriatory syllables implying the glory of capitalism and the idiocy or Marxism and worse. Oh, and as a uniform class the police are heroes.
Fine.
But never defend Wall Street, Mike, while implying that you’re an anti-authoritarian conservative, especially to defend it having never had any impact on you “personally”. The banksters are indistinguishable in their ruinous effects on you and me and their corrosive effect on classical liberalism from the criminals who’ve hijacked Washington, and in fact they serve it and not the other way around. Get it the f*ck straight while you still can, conservative.
The point is that that reality freezes the right out from the soft left that’s masquerading as a right 24/7.
I didn’t see it.
Pablo, IIRC, linked this last night and then there is this which is in the WSJ today taking down Elizabeth Warren.
HT here.
Dan Mitchell is a gentleman and a scholar.
Well, when the media can watch with a straight face while Obama does his Nathan Lane-doing John Wayne, telling the folks that the U.S. has gone soft and quit complainin’ and grumblin’, while all he’s done for the past 3 years is complain and grumble about what he inherited, and now he wants to tax the people who haven’t gone soft so that the soft, fat losers can keep collectin’ their assistance checks.
Drone on idiot.
Ah. protein spelled wrong.
It used to be Godlstein.
I thought the best thing about Twitter was watching Ace turn into a screeching harpy every two weeks about the uncouth supporters of a politician who hasn’t even announced that she’s running for President.
As if he’d magically like her if the aforementioned supporters were suddenly silenced.
I just listen to the drivel that flows out of their facial sphincters and think that it is a good thing me have these preserves like Harvard to keep such struggling daffy fauna in else the cold hand of Darwinian selection would remove them forever.
And then I come to my senses.
Remarkably unsophisticated is putting it kindly. These people really think there is a big pie out there. I have taken to actually explaining to people, whenever possible, that the government has no money. I mean, you have to start somewhere.
The Warren thing makes me happy because so many people are mocking it. I am really heartened to see so much humor emerging these days.
The thing I find most amusing about her rant is that it’s not even original. It’s just like a leftie form email commonly used in flame wars:
[ungrateful right-wing wretch’s name here] wakes up in the morning and takes a breath of clean air made possible by environmental regulations, splashes his face with water that doesn’t kill him because the government has made sure it is safe, etc.
They have no idea what they are really saying.