Progressive Thinking

Logic from the reality based community...

-Raising the minimum wage helps poor people. It does not in fact cause business owners to lay workers off. Or result in those owners raising their prices, thus causing inflation, and making the whole process mute.
-Capitalism causes inequality. Forget the fact the justice demands inequality. There is absolutely no reason that a man who works hard should ever benefit more than one who never puts down his PlayStation 2.
-War is never the answer. No, not to rid the world of evil. No, not to stop killing and suffering. No, not in retaliation. And no, not even, “What does ‘W’ ‘A’ ‘R’ spell?”
-Socialism is the answer. Don’t care if it has never worked, it just has never been done right. And don’t even start about how it kills innovation and hard work, we’re not listening. And forget the whole ‘it leads to shortages and rationing’ crap...just look at the USSR...hold on, that’s not a very good example. Well, it just works, that’s all.
-Liberals are more compassionate. We care for the poor and underprivileged. It isn’t disrespect that makes us believe they cannot do anything for themselves. No, we do not see them as subhuman and unable survive without mother government. We just want to give them stuff, because that will solve all their problems. Is it their fault they didn’t finish high school? Of course not. Is it their fault they have out of wedlock children? Not after our beloved Roe vs. Wade. Is it their fault they are addicted or criminal? No, it is Bush’s fault.
-God is dangerous to our children. Just His name, muttered in the public sphere will destroy whole portions of our children’s minds. Hell, He doesn’t even exist. It’s like instilling the idea that Santa Clause is real in their minds. And look at all the evil that fat elf has done...damn it, another bad example...oh, just nevermind.
-There is no moral absolute. Oh, except for the Kyoto treaty. The evils of big business. The machiavellian iniquity of Karl Rove. The rightness of abortion on demand. OK, so that one we give you...there are some absolutes.
-It’s all Bush’s fault. Yes, all of it. Katrina. Terrorism. The national debt. Poverty. Cancer. Gout. Syphilis. Killer monkees. Mosquitoes. Bad breath. That not so fresh feeling. Waterworld. Joan River’s face lift. Yes, all of it.