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POPSProsperity Gospel Prosperity Gospel rooted in postmillenialism, American expansion, black culture? How about simple human greed!
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POPSShallow Shouting from The Left "In a society that broke, on behalf of merit, the seemingly eternal chains of station by birth, they cry 'injustice.' In the names of fantasy worlds and mystical perfections, they have closed themselves to the Western, liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction. Like Marx, they put words like 'liberty' in quotation marks when these refer to the West…."
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POPSThe play's the thing. Playing with children; fun, inexpensive and one of the best things you can do to aid healthy development and learning.
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POPSIt doesn't work. You don't have to look at socialist countries to know that redistribution of income punishes success and rewards sloth. We've seen it here. Our welfare system was intended to help the poor — but because it was poorly structured, it wound up discouraging work and marriage, thus prolonging poverty rather than alleviating it for many. Here's another problem for Sen. Obama: He wants to spread the wealth around as if wealth and poverty and “middle-classness” (to use the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's terminology) were fixed categories. They aren't. Economic and social mobility in the United States is the norm, not the exception.
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POPSA Third Way? Social democratic policies actually enhance individual rights by raising the standard of living of the great majority of the population, increasing social mobility, raising the power of workers and consumers in society. The unregulated market that fiscal conservatives advocate is incapable of addressing global poverty and inequality in an equitable way. Social democracy stabilises economic conditions by providing economic security to individuals and eliminating the threat of extreme poverty. By restricting some economic rights, social democracy makes the market more fair (for small businesses and consumers, for example). The argument that social democratic governments spend too much and run up deficits is undermined by the record of conservative administrations (e.g. in the United States and the United Kingdom) which have run up unprecedented deficits.
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POPSThe Long March "much of the wacky, upside-down, right-is-wrong, black-is-white stuff we see in the news these days is directly or indirectly inspired by Gramsci: the attacks on Christianity, the family, individual freedom, morality and moral judgements; multiculturalism; the cult of victimhood, "tolerance," political correctness, the replacement of the roles of family, religion, individual responsibility and choice with government rules, laws, and regs; the expansion of the State and the Welfare State and the Nanny State; anti-tradition, anti-capitalism, anti-success, anti-nationalism, anti-Americanism and anti-Westernism, etc - all the stuff that makes me echo Bob Grant with "It's sick out there, and getting sicker." I am sure Antonio never anticipated that a Green movement would emerge to become an ally of the slow, incrementalist and thus less-alarming Gramscian revolution."
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POPSRising Inequality Has Not Been Offset By Mobility The fact that all three data sources suggest the same conclusion doesn’t necessarily mean it’s correct, but it offers good reason to favor that conclusion. Rising income and earnings inequality in the United States does not appear to have been offset by increased mobility.
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POPSBright Poor Children Kept Down It is a source of ongoing sadness to me that the much vaunted belief in the power of education goes on ignoring the tragic failure to take sriously in practice the dreadful failure to focus on the needs of 'bright' poor and working class children. There are no magic wands to address this problem but highlighting it would be a start, and a second step would be to identify the good practices of those initiatives which have displayed in practice that strategic intervention is more than possible if the will is there.
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POPSA Real Conservative Speaks Out! This article by Michael Gerson gets to the main idealistic problems of the current gang of so called conservative, republican, family first,......hypocrites
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POPSWashington Monthly College Rankings Washington Monthly ranks colleges according to (a) how well they perform as engines of social mobility (b) how well in fostering scientific and humanistic research and (c) how well they promote an ethic of service to country. The two universities at which I have been a student (Northwestern and Indiana) fare pretty poorly.
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