I was raised in two wildly different households. One was leftist, liberal, and progressive. The other was right-wing, conservative, and merit-based. My observations and anecdotes don’t come from a think tank or a poll. They come from decades of first-hand experience observing the archetypes, habits, mindsets, and personalities on both sides. I’ve experienced, up close, how the difference between entitlement and accountability plays out in real people’s lives, including my own.
Overall, progressives may seem very “smart” from the perspective of status quo credentialism. But they tend to lack experience where it matters most: history, economics, objectivity, incentives, genetics, unintended consequences, moral hierarchy.
The institutional progressive culture’s ideology is not a healthy path to governance. It’s the path we’ve seen so prevalent in today’s popular social hierarchy. A path full of loyalty tests, state machinery and ultimately, unbridled tyranny. History supplies the repeating and rhyming examples, but it is easily and sometimes wilfully forgotten.
Originally published at Brownstone Institute. Read the entire article here.
