WHO’S RESPONSIBLE WHEN RESULTS REFUTE PROMISES?
Should we ignore the results, and buy propaganda?
“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” THOMAS SOWELL
The leadership of both the Republican, and Democrat Parties, as well as the, “Experts,” that they empower through bureaucratic appointments, expect us to ignore the results of their disastrous policies, and judge them solely on their stated intentions, as the great Rush Limbaugh so often pointed out.
Our intellectuals, and academic leaders believe that we should trust them implicitly. We are considered fools if we believe that we have the intellectual capacity to rationalize logically, weighing facts and data. We are expected to trust our, “betters,” those, “experts,” who have studied, and excelled to the heights of academics.
These experts issue edicts, and recommendations, qualified by their academic credentials, which, when enacted, produce results. Those results either support their premises, or they refute them. Acknowledging, and accepting the scientific results of these experiments gives us wisdom. We learn what produces favorable results, and thereby is profitable, and what produces unfavorable results, or is unprofitable.
“Well, if you come up with a lot of wrong ideas and pay a price for it, you’re forced to think about it and to change your ways or else get eliminated. But there is no such test. The only test for most intellectuals is whether other intellectuals go along with them. And if they all have a wrong idea, then it becomes invincible.” THOMAS SOWELL
Those that teach in our public, and elite education systems, or are respected in our political hierarchy by academics, are exalted, and respected, because of their status. Not because the products of their logic deliver good fruit, but simply based on who they are, and the credentials they hold. As they pay NO PRICE for disastrous results, they have no incentive to repent of their folly, rather they are further exalted, as they continually blame their failures on those that disagree with them.
We, who may resist these exercises in futility, and/or destruction, are demonized by the, “elite class,” and their disciples, while those that are continually proven wrong by history and reality, are exalted. Rush used to call this, “failing upward,” and this is the single most obvious trait of the modern political parties.
God bless you, Dave