The Nudging of America

     The Obama administration is hiring a “Behavioral Insights Team” in order to tweak and alter people’s behavior without them noticing.  Such dark shenanigans are referred to as “nudges,” the term deriving from Obama’s fellow traveler Cass Sunstein.  The problem with this is manifest:

“‘Ultimately, nudging … assumes a small group of people in government know better about choices than the individuals making them.’

“And sometimes… government actually promotes the wrong thing.”

     At first this might seem odd, since Obama has often said that “the government is us,” and expressed the sentiment that everything he does is legitimate because the people elected him, as well as how he is but expressing the volonté générale, because that is what the people want.

     Why, then, would Obama need to “nudge” the people to accept his agenda, if it was the embodiment of their will that he is divining like an auger poking through rooster guts?

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It Was NEVER About Tolerance…

     The Progressive left have often screeched “tolerance” and condemned all those who do not “tolerate” their way of life and beliefs.  Of course, what they call “tolerance” has mutated over time to mean “enthusiastic affirmation.”

     With their taking of power and the ability to shove their twisted malum-normative* ethos, they have hypocritically shown absolute intolerance to those who dare not enthusiastically affirm their own beliefs.  No where can that bee seen by some of the lunacy when it comes to children and genderbending/sexuality.  Dave Blount, from Moonbattery, takes note of the California Grand Soviet Legislature passing a law to mandate that children can go into whatever bathroom they want depending on what “gender” they identify with.  Of course, the bathrooms are set up in large part due to differences in actual biology (e.g. the presence or lack of urinals).  That this could bother some children, make them uncomfortable, or even lead to harassment is irrelevant.  Since “tolerance” has been narrowly defined  de facto as being something that only applies to what the gender-bending Progressives believe, and never to what they loath and despise, any child bothered by this will never receive tolerance, but may very well be persecuted for speaking out!  Blount lists plenty of malum-normative legislation, including legislation signed by faux Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger.  Two pieces of legislation, however, stand out as examples of where “tolerance” is used as an excuse to practice intolerance.

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Mandatory Suicide

     Considering the penchant of Europe’s socialized medicine to slaughter the elderly in horrible ways, it is fair to ask if the same could happen in America.  Or, perhaps, the question we should be asking is how much worse it might be for the elderly under socialized medicine in the United State.

     Frighteningly, when asked if they supported the mandatory euthanasia of senior citizens, quite a few people sign a petition to do just that:

     Retiring to Belize just looks better and better everyday…

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Who Owns Your Labor?

     An excellent question form a pic that’s been making the rounds:

     So, what is your answer?

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News of the Week for August 4th, 2013

 

News of the Week for August 4th, 2013

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A Tale of Two Pencils

     If you need an example of the damage that the modern day publik skewl system does to children, look no further than the humble pencil, and the two very different tales about it.

American publik skewls: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!"

     Various commentators over at the Ace of Spaced HQ pointed out that it has become common for teachers to take students pencils, binders, &c. and redistribute them equally to the children:

“[At a] school in Seattle, a policy was instituted whereby all pencils are confiscated from individual students on day one, and henceforth collectively owned in a pencil pool. As a result, none of the students can be arsed to ever sharpen a pencil when it gets dull. They’ll just flick it in the trash bin, with 90% of its life left, and pull another sharp one out of the collective supply.

“Result? By a few weeks into the academic term, none of the students have a decent pencil ‘available.'”

     This is the very definition of communism being put into practice, and pushed upon unsuspecting children!

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The Vanguard of the War Against Western Civilization

     Roger Kimball over at PJ Media makes a succinct but incredibly accurate insight on the modern day nature of institutions of higher education:

“The problem is that they are part and parcel of a concerted assault on the fundamental civilizational values of our culture. By some strange process of moral entropy, those institutions which had been the bearers and preservers of our cultural inheritance have mutated into its deadly enemies.”

     The propagation of our own culture, its folkway and more, is one of the fundamental and integral aspects of its continued survival.  The Progressive left seek to destroy that, so as to impose their own delusional visions of utopia.  The “long march” through the institutions has resulted in our institutions of higher education going completely widdershins.  Universities and colleges have increasingly become monocultures of the Progressive left’s dreams.

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Summing Up the Obama Administration Succinctly

     Within hours of the Obama administration putting up a website to provide small businesses “A One-Stop-Shop on the Health Care Law for Businesses Big and Small” (in the words of Valerie Jarret), that very same website crashed.

     As tempting as it is to say that that was ironic, irony only applies when it is unexpected.  With this administration, on the other hand…

     Thank goodness for the 22nd Amendment!

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What Will Be What Marriage Once Was?

     The Progressive Left are on the verge of succeeding to redefine marriage to be just a set of legal privileges handed out to two, but only two, people.  How much longer they will feign to be “duo-normative oppressors” before coming out in favor of group marriages (among other “marriages”) remains to be seen.  But they will nonetheless pat themselves on the back that they have successfully smashed a pillar of society, and readied the remains for remolding in their image.

     But if “marriage” has been redefined to be something that it is not, then what new term shall we use to represent what “marriage” used to represent, and to many still does?

     The Oxford English Dictionary is now considering redefining the word marriage to make it irrespective of biological sex (or gender).  The OED already notes that in some jurisdictions, the word “marriage” is inclusive of same-sex unions, but with the U.K. going gay for gay marriage, the OED will likely relegate the actual definition of marriage (as being between a man and a woman) to archaic use status.

     This would mean the ultimate victory in the war of words the Progressives have been waging:  Up becomes down;  war becomes piece; men are women; four fingers being held up is really five fingers being held up; 2 + 2 = 5; there are really five lights; &c.

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The Coming Cyanofication of Texas?

     Attorney General Eric Holder is suing the state of Texas in order to bring the state back into “pre-clearance” status under the Voting Rights Act.  Ever since the U. S. Supreme Court ruled the nearly half-century old list of states & jurisdictions required to seek “pre-clearance” for changes in districting and voting laws, the rabid racial left have sought to re-impose such restrictions, especially if those changes serve to protect the integrity of the vote.

     Holder’s action are also part of the multi-faceted attack on Texas by a hydra of Progressive groups who are hell bent on turning Texas blue:

     The turning of Texas into a Democrat stronghold would cement the Progressives into a permanent electoral majority.  Coupled with a rabid hate of George W. Bush and Texas’ economic success, it is no wonder why the Progressives hate them so.

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