The October edition of Imprimis (Hillsdale College) is ‘The Case Against Liberal Compassion.’ For those interested in a fresh perspective on the contradiction between liberal guilt and the government vehicle that consistently fails to deliver on their promises, this is worth you time. Here is an excerpt.
“…liberals do not seem all that concerned about whether the machine they’ve built, and want to keep expanding, is running well. For inflation-adjusted, per capita federal welfare state spending to increase by 254 percent from 1977 to 2013, without a correspondingly dramatic reduction in poverty, and for liberals to react to this phenomenon by taking the position that our welfare state’s only real defect is that it is insufficiently generous, rather than insufficiently effective, suggests a basic problem. To take a recent, vivid example, the Obama Administration had three-and-a-half years from the signing of the Affordable Care Act to the launch of the healthcare.gov website. It’s hard to reconcile the latter debacle with the image of liberals lying awake at night tormented by the thought the government should be doing more to reduce suffering.”
If William Voegeli’s article gets archived, you can find it here.
