{"id":7404,"date":"2015-02-02T04:30:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T04:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/02\/02\/the-lefts-central-delusion\/"},"modified":"2015-02-02T04:30:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T04:30:52","slug":"the-lefts-central-delusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/02\/02\/the-lefts-central-delusion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left&#8217;s Central Delusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Thomas Sowell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/352704\/lefts-central-delusion-thomas-sowell\" target=\"_self\">points to<\/a> central planning.&#0160; I would add that the &#39;progressive&#39; conviction that people are basically good along with the concomitant conviction that there is no such thing as radical evil is also deeply delusional, and also dangerously delusional.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Sowell also has wise things to say about &#39;under-representation&#39; and &#39;over-representation.&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Do libertarians have a central delusion?&#0160; I should think so.&#0160; It is the tendency wildly to exaggerate the number of&#0160; people who know their own long-term best interest.&#0160; To properly qualify and explain this claim requires a separate entry.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Sowell points to central planning.&#0160; I would add that the &#39;progressive&#39; conviction that people are basically good along with the concomitant conviction that there is no such thing as radical evil is also deeply delusional, and also dangerously delusional.&#0160; Sowell also has wise things to say about &#39;under-representation&#39; and &#39;over-representation.&#39; Do libertarians have a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/02\/02\/the-lefts-central-delusion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Left&#8217;s Central Delusion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}