Thomas Sowell goes Godwin (and more!)
Well well, look who’s gone Godwin on President Obama - Thomas Sowell:
When Adolf Hitler was building up the Nazi movement in the 1920s, leading up to his taking power in the 1930s, he deliberately sought to activate people who did not normally pay much attention to politics. Such people were a valuable addition to his political base, since they were particularly susceptible to Hitler’s rhetoric and had far less basis for questioning his assumptions or his conclusions.
Ok, when an essay starts of with Hitler - that should be a clue. Let’s go on:
“Useful idiots” was the term supposedly coined by V.I. Lenin to describe similarly unthinking supporters of his dictatorship in the Soviet Union.
Lenin in the second paragraph - bonus points!
[…] Just where in the Constitution of the United States does it say that a president has the authority to extract vast sums of money from a private enterprise and distribute it as he sees fit to whomever he deems worthy of compensation? Nowhere.
Thomas appears to be clueless to the fact that BP willingly is going along with the idea and even raising the stakes! Obviously BP is trying to find a way to manage its liabilities, and having one pot of money is better than setting up a million of them.
But the Constitution says that private property is not to be confiscated by the government without “due process of law.” Technically, it has not been confiscated by Barack Obama, but that is a distinction without a difference.
Um, no Thomas, that is the whole point, and it is a distinction with a real big difference. Of course, if you admitted that there was a difference your slimy puff piece would all fall down under the weight of its own hubris.
When Franklin D. Roosevelt arbitrarily took the United States off the gold standard, he cited a law passed during the First World War to prevent trading with the country’s wartime enemies. But there was no war when FDR ended the gold standard’s restrictions on the printing of money.
How did gold get into this? Oh yeah… BUY GOLD!!
The man appointed by President Obama to dispense BP’s money as the administration sees fit, to whomever it sees fit, is only the latest in a long line of presidentially appointed “czars” controlling different parts of the economy, without even having to be confirmed by the Senate, as Cabinet members are. […]
Czars! CZARS!!
There are probably some at LGF who still are enamored with Mr. Sowell. But look at this short essay of his… Hitler, Lenin, Gold, Czars… it is a cornucopia of ODS.
Is Sowell, who used to write more scholarly stuff, in such need of attention that he now has to write material that is derivative of Glenn Beck?
I offer up this essay by Sowell as evidence that the far right wingnuts have indeed poisoned the well of American policy discussions and have sucked in even those who once were thought of as mainstream conservative intellectuals.
