N.C. Professor Laments Loss of Faculty Lounge Utopianism

I must admit, I do enjoy liberal hysteria especially from academia.  Nothing is more satisfying than reading an op-ed from some pampered and pasty professor lecture the working class about “democracy” and our obligations to faculty lounge utopianism.

Gene Nichol, a distinguished professor at UNC Chapel Hill, wailed about Tar Heel rejection of a progressive island in a New South.  North Carolina was supposed to transform into another New England, until the hayseeds took over and kicked out “enlightened” liberals who believe in an Obama-esque executive and a meek, irrelevant General Assembly.  Progressives love a thug when it comes to shoving their agenda down our throats; that’s what passes for a democracy in liberal circles.

You ask, what are the latest lamentations from the cloistered world of academia?  The answer is the same.  Mr. Nichols bemoans the lack of commitment to public education.  You would think his primary concern should be about educating children.  Wrong!  Here is an excerpt from his op-ed:

Shall we abandon North Carolina’s historic, enabling and almost visceral commitment to public education? The commitment that, more than any other, has worked to separate us from much of the South. Do we mean to allow this jettison? Can’t we at least be candid that the dismantling of public education is a principal, unrelenting goal of our General Assembly? Or are all the vouchers, charters, budget cuts, wrenching salary limitations, tenure and teaching assistant eliminations, rhetorical attacks and constantly pronounced school failures actually meant to accomplish something else? When we settle in to the lowest funding regime among the 50 states, will we still boast a proud dedication to learning?

According to the esteemed professor, failure should be rewarded while innovation and competition eschewed. As for this nonsense about North Carolina being the lowest funded in the 50 states is rhetorical hogwash.  I refuted this argument back in 2014.  Two of those posts are sourced below.

Had you read my referenced post on the state of education, we can pretty much determine Professor Nichol is economically illiterate.  We can probably deduce the same when it comes to history.  He, like many libtards, has completely bastardized the 14^th Amendment.  Here is another excerpt:

    

Do we strive to become a society deeply committed to the full dignity and membership of all? Put another way, do we relish and celebrate the 14th Amendment command of equality or do we begrudge it and rue its seeming shackles? Much political energy and legislative output, over the last five years, have taken aim at the prospects of racial minorities, lesbians and gay men, immigrants, women, the poor, the refugee.

We constantly have to disabuse ourselves of the above nonsense perpetuated by progressives.  We must remember the 14^th Amendment was designed to ensure ex-slaves and their progeny were afforded due process and equal protection of the law, it does not guarantee equality.  There is a big difference.  For instance, under this same amendment, Southerners who participated in the rebellion were disenfranchised.  They weren’t allowed to vote or hold public office without approval from their northern masters.  Is that equality?  I would say that is an emphatic, NO!

If you thought this equality nonsense is outrageous, read the following:

Are we a confident democracy, welcoming engagement, casting our fate on the side of full and generous participation, proud and optimistic in our founding premise of self-governance? Or are we to be a crabbed, fearful, querulous and excluding lot – ever-worried that our group may not always enjoy the ascendancy of its past? Lincoln died in the belief that “allowing all the governed an equal voice in the government, and that only, is self-government.” Finely crafted gerrymanders, biased ID requirements, poll closures, registration restrictions and structural municipal manipulations wage war on Lincoln’s premise. Curtailing democratic participation expresses an anomalous faithlessness in the actual American promise.

First of all, this is a constitutional republic, not a democracy.  Second, this crap about Lincoln is a bastardization of history. Lincoln invaded the South.  He sanctioned murder, pillaging and razing of homes and complete towns.  His legacy should be a denial of self-government, a suspension of rights and wanton destruction that impoverished the South for decades.  Lincoln was this country’s first tyrant.

And of course, what would a leftist tirade be without the usual environmental pablum.  You will have to read that for yourself.  But I’m sure you already know what’s in it.

 Source:

http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article57341643.html#storylink=cpy

http://costonscomplaint.blogspot.com/2014/08/north-carolina-teachers-have-it-better.html

http://costonscomplaint.blogspot.com/2015/08/north-carolina-teachers-finding-greener.html

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article57341643.html#storylink=cpy

Liberal Utopia is Only a Failure Away

Utopia is only a failure away.  Those who are harmed will get over it, because in the end, it all equals out.  That’s libtardism in a nutshell.  Unfortunately, we are witnessing those policies being played before our very eyes with the Democratic Party’s income inequality meme. 

Recently, a Seattle CEO of a credit card processing company decided to put into practice what liberals have been carping on for decades: implementing an income equality workplace.  Many conservatives predicted this was a doomed experiment.  The surprise was it only took three months for that prediction to become reality.  Skilled and dedicated employees were making as much as entry level workers causing dissention and resentment.  The survival of Gravity Payments is in question.

The living wage experiment is also proving to be a failure.  This time it’s not from some small regional company from the left coast, but from a megastore headquartered in America’s heartland.  Wal-Mart has bought into this utopian concept of higher wages for entry level employees equals a happy work environment.  That would probably be the case if they raised the wages of everyone else, but income equality doesn’t work that way.  Here is an excerpt from Bloomberg News:

 When Wal-Mart Stores Inc. chief Doug McMillon announced plans to boost store workers’ minimum wage earlier this year, he said the move was intended to improve morale and retain employees.

Yet for some of the hundreds of thousands of workers getting no raise, the policy is having the opposite effect.

In interviews and in hundreds of comments on Facebook, Wal-Mart employees are calling the move unfair to senior workers who got no increase and now make the same or close to what newer, less experienced colleagues earn. New workers started making a minimum of $9 an hour in April and will get at least $10 an hour in February.

“It is pitting people against each other,” said Charmaine Givens-Thomas, a 10-year Wal-Mart veteran. “It hurts morale when people feel like they aren’t being appreciated. I hear people every day talking about looking for other jobs and wanting to remove themselves from Wal-Mart and a job that will make them feel like that.”

Liberal utopianism doesn’t care whether or not we appreciate their outcomes; it’s the sentiment that counts.  Equality, fraternity and liberty to fleece other people’s wallets and ambitions are part of the Democratic Party’s transformation of America.  It worked so well for France during the Reign of Terror, why shouldn’t it work here?

Source:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-06/an-unintended-consequence-of-wal-mart-pay-raise-unhappy-workers

http://costonscomplaint.blogspot.com/2014/05/minimum-wage-hike-is-pay-cut-for-middle.html

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/03/seattle-ceo-who-set-firm-minimum-wage-to-70g-rents-house-to-make-ends-meet/

Ameritopia: A False Dialectic

H/T:  Doug Ross Journal

A Tribute to the Utopian Ideology Known as Communism

Recently, a college professor declared Stalin was a victim of Western propaganda, and that he didn't commit the crimes attributed to him by the evil capitalist.  Well professor, here is a tribute to your utopian ideology.

H/T:  American Thinker

Obama: Central Planning is the Key to a Utopian Dream

It’s that time of the week when Dear Leader sits his condescending ass down before a camera and lectures the American people about how ungrateful and greedy we are. This week’s theme – as is almost every week – is about class warfare and those who aren’t paying enough to the federal government.

Over the last few months, I’ve been talking about a choice we face as a country. We can either settle for an economy where a few people do really well and everyone else struggles to get by, or we can build an economy where hard work pays off again — where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same rules. That’s up to us.

Today, I want to talk to you about the idea that everyone in this country should do their fair share.

Now, if this were a perfect world, we’d have unlimited resources. No one would ever have to pay any taxes, and we could spend as much as we wanted. But we live in the real world. We don’t have unlimited resources. We have a deficit that needs to be paid down. And we also have to pay for investments that will help our economy grow and keep our country safe: education, research and technology, a strong military, and retirement programs like Medicare and Social Security.

But this asshole sure as hell spends our “limited resources” on boondoggles like unproven alternative energy programs. That’s because Dear Leader considers guaranteed federal loans and grants to his campaign bundlers “investments.” They’re investments all right: his 2012 election war chest.



When Obama talks about everyone paying their “fair share,” he means everyone but his cronies and government henchmen. Do you hear of anyone in the federal government sacrificing for the common good? HELL NO! This president has once again presented a budget that no one in the House of Representatives voted in the affirmative. It was so outlandish, even the Democrats refused to vote yea. And yet, this man sits before us and pontificates on economics! Here is, once again, pushing the Buffet Rule:

If you make more than $1 million a year, you should pay at least the same percentage of your income in taxes as middle class families do. On the other hand, if you make under $250,000 a year — like 98 percent of American families do — your taxes shouldn’t go up. You’re the ones struggling with the rising cost of everything from college tuition to groceries. You’re the ones who deserve a break.

So Obama would have us believe that if the federal government confiscates more assets from the rich and redistributes it – most probably to his minions – the cost of living will go down. What an economic retard! It’s the policies of his administration and the antagonistic attitude that the D.C. apparatchiks have towards the America people that is running this country into the ground.

And to top it off, the commander-in-thief leaves us with this little Marxist ditty:

That’s not right. That’s not who we are. In America, our story has never been about what we can do by ourselves — it’s about what we can do together. It’s about believing in our future and the future of this country. So tell your Members of Congress to do the right thing. Call them up, write them a letter, pay them a visit, and tell them to stop giving tax breaks to people who don’t need them and start investing in the things that will help our economy grow and put people back to work.

That’s how we’ll make this country a little fairer, a little more just, and a whole lot stronger. Thank you

I’ve got news for you Barack, for many of us the American dream is vanishing, and it’s because of people like you. Your utopian machinations will not make this country fairer, more just, or stronger. But it will benefit the central planners and elitist scum like you. And that is not what America is about.

Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2012/03/31/weekly-address-passing-buffett-rule-so-everyone-pays-their-fair-sh#transcript

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/mar/28/obama-budget-defeated-414-0/