not argue against him, bet get him to argue for himself. It is great

yep. exactly. he is very good. the left is a cancer that has been cast on all of humanity. not sure how we are supposed to get them out.

I think they will get themselves out, as their weird and contradictional policies are becoming so impactful on the public, that they will opt to at least vote against these regressives. And this nice house we built with government debt could of course collapse at any time, making way for change. Not much we individuals can do to impact this, but its the way it is.

Adolf Critler doubt it. look at other countires. the government is going to take all of our guns. crime will increase at same time as the government closing in on censorship of free speech. one day you are going to wake up in pseudo north korea and wish you could go back in time to change it but you cant.

I adore Peter. UK wouldn't be as good as it is without him.

+aGiftedRighter Yeah, I used to think Paul Krugman was really smart. I had no idea what smart even looked like! lol

~'thumbs up' own comment~

+James Hash How do you know he's lonely, and what bearing does that have on his economic acumen?

+Homercles the great! but how could you possibly know that?

*****

I disagree. intelligent ppl have intelligent families. 😉

People with knowledge and good sense are always lonely

Eric Garland we all feel the same

That's actually a sign of intelligence. To recognise that someone is smarter than you requires intelligence. Stupid people are unable to recognise that someone is smarter than them because of their stupidity. It is called the Dunning Kruger effect.

Eric Garland Haha! Soooo true!

That's a bad thing? We shouldn't fear those who are better educated or prepared than ourselves.

That's a bad thing about you.

You are so right. I don't understand why so many tolerate this.

+Bam Mam Because When you deal with someone that you cannot reason with you are ultimately left with two choices, you either A) Ignore them and instruct others to do the same because they are irrational and do not respond to the world as it. Or B) You eliminate them from the conversation, by any means necessary because they cannot contribute anything to any discussion because they are living in a world populated by their imagination, not reality. The real problem is what happens when you can no longer pick Option A) because the people in charge ARE the people who do not respond to facts.

Because the opposition has better marketing ...

People don't like the truth.

r dautzenberg Apparently the call to cast off the shackles of the oppressor and build a shining utopia is far more marketable than advocating for personal responsibility and attributing trends to impersonal systemic factors. Who knew?

James Eck people want to feel loke they have more control(there smart enough to fix things) when reality is not so

Or an intellectually inept society.

allow me to correct you - Dr. Sowell is an INTERNATIONAL treasure

and doomed to be ignored.

The truth is inconvenient to those who live in their own delusional world.

They are not prophetic. They are self fulfilling prophosies. You cant underfund and gut programs and then claim those programs were doomed to fail. You doomed them to fail when you sent billions over seas to make corparations more attractive to foreign governments, while you sucked the lifeblood out of the middle class and underclass of your own country. Ignorant people continue to fall for the same stupid tricks. The lie that they are the arbitors of their own fortune in a nation of people looking out for themselves. How many inovations have been shelved because it was cheaper in the short term to stay with the inneficient program already paid for? How many technologies have been stiffled to protect the profit margins of out dated and obsolete companies. How many trillions go out the door to unprofitabke companies while programs that would do more and cost a fraction are under funded and demonized. How many fortune 500 companies are on the government tit while the people paying into that system are struggling to survive.

The education system is largely run by the left, it may be intentional, it may be unconscious, but they leave important stuff out sometimes if it runs counter to the democrat narrative.

Why I left the left is they put an inordinate amount of focus on the worst parts of history and seem keen to divide Americans into thinking of themselves primarily on ethnic rather than national lines. The media does it too, black guys aren't being shot at a higher rate than before, and in fact, before all the news coverage this rate had been going down for decades... now it's up, I think not because there is an increase, but due to an increased perception that the police are out to get them, this in turn causes them to be more nervous around cops, which the officers perceive and in turn become more nervous themselves.... but thinking beyond two steps is too hard for most it seems...

Tommy Lopez you put it so well

That's because his perspectives are informed by the historic account

well said

David Friedman, Milton's son is better.

Great list but I also like Gustave de Molinari and Marquis de Condorcet

I like Marx.

***** Marx was nothing but a career-intellectual or professional intellectual

That's true.