Wogic

Makes your head hurt!

 Wogic 

You would think that the major metropolitan dailies would require their pundits to take at least a beginning course in logic. You know, so they wouldn’t arrive at a conclusion that disproved their premise or wrote a next sentence that contradicted the previous one. Clearly, that’s not the case. Not even The Wall Street Journal, which you’d imagine would be most concerned. Clearly, that’s not the case. Not even The Wall Street Journal, which I’d imagine would be most concerned.
    I don’t read the Journal often, but Axel has a subscription that a member of his congregation got for him, and he’ll deliver a section from time to time, with an article highlighted he thinks I’d like to read. There’s one on the Premier League, “Premier League’s Three-Way Race” in the November 1 issue. It’s on page A14. On the opposite page, A25 – is an opinion piece, “Nine Theories of Progressive Power” by Andy Kessler, who has a degree in engineering from Cornell.

 

He wonders what progressives’ end game is. Why are they dishing out the shit they’re dishing out? He has nine theories, if his title is correct, but they boil down to these: they are buying votes to stay in power – power is, after all, addictive, not to mention it pays: Did you know Bernie Sanders owns three homes?
     But it doesn’t really matter, their end game. The solution is to limit progressives’ power. Then:

 

While they twist themselves into pretzels trying to solve poverty and inequality, let the marketplace of ideas and entrepreneurs flourish. That already works.

 

We know that, right? – because there is no poverty or inequality.

 

  11.24.21