It's true of every form of advocacy hypocrisy. Take homelessness. In spite billions of dollars spent on Housing First over thirty years, homelessness has increased, deaths from exposure and overdose climb, and more people are unsheltered, broken, and homeless. In the face of these facts, "advocates" continue to insist that the infusion of just a few more million dollars, or the creation of new “game changing” departments, or the establishment of more poorly managed shelters are the answers. It boils down to this: if it weren't for the problem, what would advocates have to fund, or manage, or bleat about?
100%. It is the rarest of people who will fix the problem if it means they lose their job.
It's been pointed out countless times that LBJ's Great Society was something that tackled a problem that was already solving itself. Blacks were outpacing everyone else in upward economic mobility, and they had a higher two-parent household percentage as well. After the Great Society's helping hand, we have half a century of people being economically trapped, and a two parent rate that dropped from 80% to 25%, IIRC.
Yet the people whose ideological ancestors caused all this insist that more of the same is how to fix it.
Or, we can note that many who have been gathered under the large tent have been gathered without their consent or against their will, and "ally" ourselves, to use their language, with the ones who understand and embrace the notion of individual liberty, especially within their particular identity group.
Idiocies at their finest….
It's true of every form of advocacy hypocrisy. Take homelessness. In spite billions of dollars spent on Housing First over thirty years, homelessness has increased, deaths from exposure and overdose climb, and more people are unsheltered, broken, and homeless. In the face of these facts, "advocates" continue to insist that the infusion of just a few more million dollars, or the creation of new “game changing” departments, or the establishment of more poorly managed shelters are the answers. It boils down to this: if it weren't for the problem, what would advocates have to fund, or manage, or bleat about?
100%. It is the rarest of people who will fix the problem if it means they lose their job.
It's been pointed out countless times that LBJ's Great Society was something that tackled a problem that was already solving itself. Blacks were outpacing everyone else in upward economic mobility, and they had a higher two-parent household percentage as well. After the Great Society's helping hand, we have half a century of people being economically trapped, and a two parent rate that dropped from 80% to 25%, IIRC.
Yet the people whose ideological ancestors caused all this insist that more of the same is how to fix it.
We’re from the government and we’re here to help!
One of the scariest sentences to exist.
Amusing at best, the edifice fails;
fawned high standards melt away to base hubris.
The uneasy confederation of hostile tribes set upon themselves, demanding sole validation.
The general population can only stand by, and ….. sell barbecue sauce.
Or, we can note that many who have been gathered under the large tent have been gathered without their consent or against their will, and "ally" ourselves, to use their language, with the ones who understand and embrace the notion of individual liberty, especially within their particular identity group.