Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Old Moonbeam now looks sane
Listened to a bit of Jerry Brown's interview on CNN last night. Brown, formerly viewed as El Weirdo, now sounds remarkably sane by comparison to the rest of our political class.
Discussing criminals and prisons, Brown said that we can easily distinguish between "bad seed", permanently evil creatures, versus mere lawbreakers who can be turned toward normalcy with the right set of incentives. We need to permanently restrain the "bad seed", and try to incentivize the temporarily bad dudes. This is perfectly true, and our court system naturally operated according to this truth until the Commie revolution of 1968-1974.
By now, no other Democrat or Republican dares to speak this plain and obvious truth. Our ruling idiots have totally surrendered to grains-of-sand egalitarianism, which means that prison sentences must be absolutely identical for anyone whose actions happen to fit into the definition of a crime at any given moment. And because the political idiots also have to respond to the public once in a while, the identical sentences end up being maximum sentences.
Any recognition of innate differences among people is unthinkable to leftists. I don't know if it's unthinkable to conservatives, but they are certainly so afraid of gang leaders Jackson and Sharpton that they end up following the Commie line rigorously.
So old Moonbeam, formerly in the Commie vanguard, is now a counter-revolutionary. Bravo. ¶ 6:31 AM
Discussing criminals and prisons, Brown said that we can easily distinguish between "bad seed", permanently evil creatures, versus mere lawbreakers who can be turned toward normalcy with the right set of incentives. We need to permanently restrain the "bad seed", and try to incentivize the temporarily bad dudes. This is perfectly true, and our court system naturally operated according to this truth until the Commie revolution of 1968-1974.
By now, no other Democrat or Republican dares to speak this plain and obvious truth. Our ruling idiots have totally surrendered to grains-of-sand egalitarianism, which means that prison sentences must be absolutely identical for anyone whose actions happen to fit into the definition of a crime at any given moment. And because the political idiots also have to respond to the public once in a while, the identical sentences end up being maximum sentences.
Any recognition of innate differences among people is unthinkable to leftists. I don't know if it's unthinkable to conservatives, but they are certainly so afraid of gang leaders Jackson and Sharpton that they end up following the Commie line rigorously.
So old Moonbeam, formerly in the Commie vanguard, is now a counter-revolutionary. Bravo. ¶ 6:31 AM
