The flexible opinions of the left
Ace points out a WaPo WaPo “journalist” named Marc Fisher who decided, in this time of crisis, to give some effort to attacking a guy on Twitter who dared to utter a heresy:
Scott McMillan, a 56-year-old lawyer, tweeted that it's more vital to revive the economy than to save people who are ‘not productive,’ like the elderly and infirm. So I called his parents. https://t.co/czDOkbGI49
— Marc Fisher (@mffisher) March 25, 2020
Fisher has gotten a lot of negative reaction from Twitter. But I think the most interesting observation is this from Ace:
Update: Moron Robbie points out that a main assumption of ObamaCare would be to “rationally distribute health care away from the infirm and weak.”
Obama — “President Boyfriend” — said that if his elderly grandmother needed an expensive operation, she should just take an aspirin instead.
And all the liberals said, “yes, the SCIENCE says they’re going to die anyway, let us speed them on their way and reap the $aving$!!!”
Seems that within just a few years’ time, leftists have completely reversed their position on saving money vs. maximum preservation of the elderly’s lives.
Now — when their political interests requires a depression — they take the position that there is literally no sum of money too high to save one elderly person’s life.
All positions are mutable and will be transformed to fit the political goals, and no one is supposed to notice the switch.
When you lie for a living, you have to change your story frequently.
The most infuriating part of this is that no one is supposed to notice. If you call them out on it, they just say Obama is president anymore Trump is!
I’ve noticed this, too.
For some reason, the people who usually resent the elderly the most and who want to deny them the vote are now obsessed with helping the elderly. Fascinating.
“For some reason, the people who usually resent the elderly the most and who want to deny them the vote are now obsessed with helping the elderly. Fascinating. ”
Likewise, those who have seemed the most concerned with overpopulation are the same ones who are raising the most ruckus about the death rate. As you say…fascinating.
Are they totally unaware? or so oblivious to their contradicting positions that they don’t see the contradictions? or just so completely immoral that they don’t care – any position works if it gives them the upper hand.
This is one of those things that makes me want to seek out this insect Fisher and punch his face into pico de gallo.
On the subject of flexible leftist opinion Benny Gantz has blown up his Blue and White Party to enter his faction of it, Israel Resilience, into a unity government with Bibi and Likud (and allies). Gantz takes both the Speakership of the Knesset and the Defense portfolio while Bibi remains PM for a period to come. Some sort of alternating PM arrangement has been worked out, it seems. Gantz’s former allies, Lapid and Ya’alon and their parties go into the opposition, keeping the Blue and White name.
Finally Israel has a semi-stable government with which to take aim at fighting Wuhan Virus (among other enemies). Hope it works out for the better.
https://m.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Likud-Blue-and-White-negotiations-intensifying-622426
sdferr:
That sounds like good news from Israel. Surprising, too. I thought Gantz would resist to the bitter bitter end.
The answer changes to either benefit their own, or hurt their opposition, validity was sacrificed long ago with new math, gender, etc..
It does seem good news. I think Gantz was simply in a cul-de-sac from which there were no alternatives of exit but alliance with Likud. Bad news that he put himself there to begin with though, showing a grave deficit of political judgement, so not exactly what the polity wants in an executive.
Mainstream Media Exposed in 4 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ0Aob6qepY&feature=emb_logo
Here’s Caroline Glick’s quick analysis of the Gantz move: https://israelunwired.com/netanyahu-gantz-save-israel-from-a-political-nightmare/
Artfldgr on March 26, 2020 at 7:44 pm said:
The answer changes to either benefit their own, or hurt their opposition, validity was sacrificed long ago with new math, gender, etc..
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Some pundit said much the same thing (Jonah Goldberg at NR?), roughly, “The Left doesn’t have double principles, it only has one principle: whatever advances its power.”
Can’t find that quote, of course, so here are some others:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/26/assume_the_left_lies_and_you_will_discover_the_truth_reflections_on_the_trump-russia_collusion_lie_139859.html
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2017/02/06/the-left-hates-you-act-accordingly-n2281602
If the choice is me or my children/spouses or my grandchildren, please God let it be me.
They, or any other young adult or child, deserve to have a future. I probably don’t have more than a decade or two at the most anyway.
Weird, really. The left usually wants the elderly to die because the elderly tend to not vote for them…
But I guess Orange Man Bad trumps even that (yes, I know, couldn’t resist).
Good example with Libertarianish Big Gov’t Cass Sunstein (Harvard)
https://twitter.com/AriSchulman/status/1243552405075251200
Sunstein didn’t merely change his mind in response to events. He told people four weeks ago that if they held the view he now holds, they had a brain defect. He and others rationalized a delayed response that now forces the wrenching shutdown.