The Liberal Mind

Is rotten. Andrew Sullivan goes on a deep dive this week about how liberals in the Biden-Harris administration suppressed scientific evidence to continue unwise medical treatment on "trans kids." Just a pure cut and dry case of ideology over reality. But there is so much more...

Harris criticized Israel's invasion of Rafah earlier this year. Had she been President, she might've used her leverage to stop it. Yet that is where Sinwar was. The invasion of Rafah lead to the death of Sinwar. Now I understand those who oppose Israel. They see the issue clearly: they think Israel was founded on a crime and can only continue to exist through more crime against the Palestinians. They are wrong, but they are clear. American liberals on the other hand are both wrong and unclear. They on the one hand welcome Sinwar's death and defend Israel's right to protect themselves. Yet...they Israel only to protect itself in a certain way - a way that won't allow them to protect themselves. They want to live in a dual reality where Israel can protect themselves without inflicting any damage on the Palestinians. Please explain how in the real world this is supposed to happen? This is like asking a football team to win the game, but not allow them to play offense because that will hurt the feelings of the other team. Huh? What are we even doing or talking about here?You see this on nearly every single issue for liberals. 

Liberals want "fairness" and/or to rectify past injustices, so we put into place something called affirmative action. But when you look at affirmative action you see there is a cost - a cost to the folks who would've otherwise gotten into college or a job without affirmative action. So this is unfair. But instead of acknowledging the issue and working toward a compromise, liberals change the language. They argue we don't need affirmative action, but rather - diversity. And now we are told that the "losers" of affirmative action policies are actually winners because "everyone benefits from diversity." It would be like saying we are doing the Palestinians a favor by letting Israel rid them of Hamas. Do any Palestinians feel this way? Even I doubt it. Liberals cannot admit there are trade offs. Or even choices to be made. They literally feel like they can engineer the world into being a better place with rhetoric.

Take homelessness. The liberal idea is that your can correct homelessness by calling them unhoused and pouring an ungodly amount of money toward the problem. Then, when it doesn't work, they think: we need to more 2x ungodly amount of money toward it. Then, a few normal people push back against their terrible policy ideas, and they turn around and blame the pushbackers of being the worst of all possible things: Republicans. And probably racist too. 

The liberal mind cannot solve problems because the liberal mind doesn't believe in natural forming hierarchy or priorities. So the Liberals will on the one hand will believe climate change is an existential threat, but then on the other hand not want to buy or support Tesla because Elon owns Twitter. Or, they will put tariffs on electric Chinese cars because they also recognize we need a domestic auto industry and all the union votes. So they can't ever decide upon what problem actually matters - does climate change actually matter? Or do auto unions matter? Or strategic industries?

I read some liberal semi-criticizing Musk on twitter and longing for a world where NASA was able to be as efficient as SpaceX. Feels like a weird way to critique Musk. Isn't the better case study - why isn't NASA able to do what Musk is able to do at cost? Does this have something to do with a design flaw in central organization? Answer this question first, it seems to me.