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Thomas Sowell: Too Often Politics Will Produce The Insane
2015-02-24
[Investors.com] Who says President Champ doesn't promote bipartisanship? His complicity in Iran's moving toward nuclear bombs has alarmed some top Senate Democrats enough to get them to join Republicans in opposition to the Champ administration's potentially suicidal foreign policy.

Before the current measles outbreak, measles was once almost wiped out in the U.S. But an article in a medical journal more than a decade ago had many parents afraid to have their children vaccinated, for fear that the vaccine causes autism. After scientific studies refuted that claim, the medical journal repudiated the article, and the doctor who wrote it had his license revoked.

If not a single policeman killed a single black individual anywhere in the U.S. for this entire year, that would not reduce the number of black homicide victims by 1%. When the mobs of protesters declare "Black lives matter," does that mean ALL black lives matter -- or only the less than 1% of black lives lost in conflicts with police?

In politics, never assume that because something is insane, it will not be done. The Holocaust was as insane as it was a moral horror. But it was done. Even after the tide of war turned against Germany and it faced invasion and devastation, Hitler continued to pour scarce resources into the mass killing of people who were no threat.
Posted by:Besoeker

#7  along with Walter Williams, intelligent, sane thought leaders - blacks would do a helluva lot better if they listened to them
Posted by: Frank G   2015-02-24 19:04  

#6  If you are unfamiliar, take the time to watch the various interview videos of him.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2015-02-24 18:57  

#5  I think being a little psychopathic is the first hurdle of public office.
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp15048   2015-02-24 18:38  

#4  I agree, I like his style. Next President should tap him as economic advisor, he can explain complex issue very clearly which would be a nice change of pace.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-02-24 14:54  

#3  I like the writing style TS had adopted in recent years. I don't need 750 words to grasp most ideas, and the fluff many use to get there is off-putting. His encapsulated wisdom is welcome both in content and in form.
Posted by: Iblis   2015-02-24 13:42  

#2  Ditto JQC, of the highest order.
Posted by: AlanC   2015-02-24 13:14  

#1  Thomas Sowell, an American treasure.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-02-24 12:40  

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