Actually, “Liberalism” Doesn’t Work, You Ponce – Part VI

Continuing on after parts I, II, III, IV, and V: But aren’t Republicans better for business? Some people sure think so. In the 1980s I worked for a startup, and whenever he was asked about stock options, the CEO would talk about it depending somehow on whether a Republican or a Democrat was elected President.…

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Actually, “Liberalism” Doesn’t Work, You Ponce – Part V – Taxes and Regs

Good morning. So far, you have heard about why the left and right are the same (part I), that trends were altered around the 70s and 80s (part II), the role of markets in history (part III), and the dangers of debt (part IV). It has been a bit jumbled and confusing in parts, perhaps,…

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Weekly Reflection – Why Prophesy Exists

I wonder often why it is my generation does not care about the telltale signs of a dying world. Whether it be our economic situation, our foreign policy, our cultural sin, or the themes of our personal sin, I ponder daily the future of humanity and how wrong the world is. I simultaneously cannot see…

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Actually, “Liberalism” Doesn’t Work, You Ponce – Part III – Markets and History

This is going well, isn’t it? And we are only a quarter the way down the page. Here are parts I and II. Let’s get a third out today. We have a few graphs in the next stint, but I will let our narrator talk a little bit before I jump in… This is even…

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Actually, “Liberalism” Doesn’t Work, You Ponce – Part II – Something Did Change

In Part I, I spent time tearing at the theses here, arguing that Reagan was much like those who have always occupied the office of the president, and that the policies he enacted were similar… Something DID change though, around when Reagan was in office, presumably just before he did (changes do not occur overnight).…

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Actually, “Liberalism” Doesn’t Work, You Ponce – Part I – False Dichotomy

I have a very intelligent friend who is completely taken by the leftist American paradigm. As is typical with leftists, he sees HUGE differences between the Republicans and Democrats, and he believes Obama to be the second coming of FDR (one would think that Obama would be anything but democratic and typical leftist, given the…

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