I must be getting increasingly impatient as I approach my dotage.
I am greatly irritated by editorials that drive home their point with a sledgehammer in lieu of a more precise implement. The come from all sides of the political spectrum. The fact that these particular screeds are from the Adam Smith segment doesn't matter.
They are all similar.
Posit something guaranteed to scare the bejesus out of people.
Find references in your target's words that confirm your assertion, helpfully translating any portion that isn't hysteria inducing on its face.
Throw in some extraneous crap.
repeat.
"Economic justice" simply means punishing the successful and redistributing their wealth by government fiat. It's a euphemism for socialism.
Obama also talks about "restoring fairness to the economy," code for soaking the "rich" —
Is there a socialist speaker's manual that I'm not aware of, full of codewords ans super secret phrases? It must be well distributed since
Obama never spelled out the meaning of the term, but he didn't have to. His audience knew what he meant, judging from its thumping approval.
Then, move on to
"Universal national service" (a la Havana).
Ok, but isn't it also (a la Tel Aviv) or (a la pre WWI Berlin) or even (a la colonial America's militias)?
sprinkle in
Amid all this, Obama reunited with his late father's communist tribe in Kenya, the Luo, during trips to Africa.
Huh? I have forebearers who took up arms against a lawful government, pretty radical stuff. For the record, I also have many relatives who sided with said government, now happily residing in the Maritimes.
The sad thing is, there may be a legitimate issue here, or in this editorials brothers from across the political spectrum.
I just won't be able to hear what they want to say, given the repugnant way that it is said.