Daily Archives: 3 September 2016

UK healthcare and the left’s crisis of the day

Obese patients and smokers banned from routine surgery in ‘most severe ever’ rationing in the NHS

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/02/obese-patients-and-smokers-banned-from-all-routine-operations-by/

How does the left turn issues on and off so readily? Several years ago, concern about global warming was not only a priority as far as the left was concerned, but a requirement for your membership in civilized society.

Then it was health care. We were awash in tears for the poor Americans who could afford health care. By many accounts, the problem has gotten WORSE, but the issue is gone.

Today’s requirement is all about social justice, and giving things to people who aren’t white.

I’m reminded over and over of Richard Rorty’s stunning admission about leftist political thinking:

“I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn’t care much about our past sins.”

What is the alt-right?

Good discussion in this video. I thought I understood the alt-right, but I learned a lot here.

“White Americans are beginning to learn that they need to play the game like everyone else.”

The assumption of universalism is being lost. This is an seismic shift in the psychology of the American political scene.

Universalism may have persevered if we’d maintained a meritocracy, but the left created a religion out of ethnic and gender groups assigning white men the role of the devil. The rise of white identity politics, for better or worse, seems inevitable.