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Government Bureaucracy on Liberal Autopilot
Topic Started: Mar 28 2014, 08:00 AM (413 Views)
Berton
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Government Bureaucracy on Liberal Autopilot

‘Waste anything but time." That was the motto of the teams behind NASA's Apollo missions. That spirit has long since evaporated. Today's NASA is pulled by a million missions, from improving education and spinning off more products like Tang to its latest call of duty: telling Muslims how good they are at math.

NASA chief Charles Bolden recently told Al-Jazeera TV that President Obama charged him with three crucial missions: (1) "help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math"; (2) "expand our international relationships"; and (3) "perhaps foremost," Bolden explained, Obama "wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world . . . to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science . . . and math and engineering."

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We've gone from "waste anything but time" to "waste everything, especially time" in about a generation.

Liberalism is caught in something of a Catch-22. Under Obama, liberals are determined to reinvigorate the reputation of government, to prove that only the state can get important things done. That is why the Gulf oil spill, for instance, is so vexatious for the White House and its liberal supporters. Why can't the government be more nimble and resourceful?

It was one thing when the feds failed after Hurricane Katrina, liberals reasoned, because Bush didn't like government. This was not only untrue, it overlooked the fact that the permanent government bureaucracy is on liberal autopilot. Regardless, Obama is different. He loves government; he sees it as the most noble of callings. That's why he wants to make student loans much cheaper for kids who go to work for the government, and it's why he wants government jobs to pay so much better than private-sector ones.

According to contemporary liberalism, the government is the control room of society, where problems get solved, where institutions get their marching orders, where the oceans are commanded to stop rising. Each institution must subscribe to the progressive vision: All oars must pull as one. We are all in it together. We can do it all, if we all work together. Yes, we can......

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Yes we can all march in lock step with Obama or be threatened, belittled, and hated.

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Government Bureaucracy has nothing to do with liberal or conservative. Both groups practice Government Bureaucracy when they are in office.
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"According to contemporary liberalism, the government is the control room of society, where problems get solved, where institutions get their marching orders, where the oceans are commanded to stop rising. Each institution must subscribe to the progressive vision: All oars must pull as one. We are all in it together. We can do it all, if we all work together."
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Real Clear Propaganda from the right wing spin machine.
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"In my book, Liberal Fascism, I called this phenomenon the "liberal Gleichschaltung." Gleichschaltung is a German word (in case you couldn't have guessed) borrowed from electrical engineering. It means "coordination." The German National Socialists (Nazis) used the concept to get every institution to sing from the same hymnal. If a fraternity or business embraced Nazism, it could stay "independent." If it rejected Nazism, it was crushed or bent to the state's ideology. Meanwhile, every branch of government was charged with not merely doing its job but advancing the official state ideology.

Now, contemporary liberalism is not an evil ideology. Its intentions aren't evil or even fruitfully comparable to Hitlerism. But there is a liberal Gleichschaltung all the same. Every institution must be on the same page. Every agency must advance the liberal agenda."
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It appears that Berton's logical fallacy, appeal to authority, isn't working too well for him on this thread.
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It appears that colo_crawdad is trying to make this thread about me. That is typical of him. Talk about me and never ever discuss the content of the specific subject.

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No, no attempt to make this thread about Berton. Just making this thread about Berton's failed misuse of a logical fallacy. That about his posting, not about him. I do realize that he would like very much to shift the discussion from being about his failed misuse of a logical fallacy to be about me. When he as no rational response, that ishis typical response. Too sad.
Edited by colo_crawdad, Mar 28 2014, 10:35 PM.
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Bunch of goobledegook, Berton. Whete the heck do you find all this crap?
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Bureaucracy is common to all organizations, be they churches, hospitals, business organizations or government. Bureaucracy has absolutely nothing to do with conservative or liberal politics.
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