…are easy. “Have a nice day.” Costs nothing. Makes someone feel good. “I wish you well.” Who would look at that sentiment too closely? It’s simply wonderful. Surely anyone who says those words must be good. Likewise for all the good intentions espoused by the left such as, “Everyone should have health insurance, a college education, a job, a car, American citizenship, a home, unconditional respect from other people, a pure life in a pristine state of nature” and many other good things. Who could seriously question any of those good intentions?
So, how did the left succeed in owning the image that they are the only group in society who hold good intentions for other people? More importantly, how did they do so while maintaining allegiance to social, economic and political methods that fail so completely to actually bring about the intended results of their good intentions?
How does the left live with the dissonance between the intentions they continually express, and the poor results their systems actually produce? Doesn’t it keep them awake at night? Doesn’t it worry them that leftist methods have not produced a single successful society? Ever. In all of recorded history. Wouldn’t that give a reasonable person second thoughts?
And woe unto the heretics who mention the taboo of this inconvenient fact. The left heaps abuse onto them, doubles down on the chanting, and shouts down the dissenters.
Political and economic systems are always a choice between least-bad alternatives. So how does one get away with choosing the worst of the least-bad alternatives, and come away with people thinking they’ve chosen the best?
Is it just good marketing? They’ve got some ‘splainin’ to do.