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The Left Is Sometimes Correct – About the Problems, Not the Solutions

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The Left’s “Solution”

For decades now, Washington, DC has been the world’s biggest butchery.  Carving up the US’s carcass – and selling it by the pound to the highest bidders.

This has massively grown the nation’s Big Businesses.  While the nation itself has withered and shriveled.

For its part, the Left occasionally has a point about the problems we face.  They are almost always wrong about their causes – and their solutions.  But that changes not their correctness about the problems.

To wit: Remember when the Left’s Occupy Wall Street – and its slogan “We are the 99%” – became a thing?:

“(A) left-wing populist movement against economic inequality, corporate greed, big finance, and the influence of money in politics that began in …2011….

“There were many particular points of interest leading up to the Occupy movement that angered populist and left-wing groups. For instance, the 2008 bank bailouts under the George W. Bush administration….”

“The Occupy protesters’ slogan ‘We are the 99%’ referred to the income disparity in the US and economic inequality in general, which were main issues for OWS.”

In retrospect?  The Left was exactly correct about nearly all of the excerpts I chose. (more…)

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