The Democrats' Common Sense Problem

[IUJIM]

Ruy Teixeira gets a lot right in this piece. Coming from a life long liberal, he discusses many of the same topics that are constantly debated here. Maybe most surprising was the poll results coming from the state of Massachusetts, not exactly the most conservative part of the country.


Common Sense

 

[TomEric4756]

This makes narrative as “truth”, all the more frustrating.
Yet the narrative (propaganda) is continually espoused as fact.
At some point rolling snakeyes has to get called snakeeyes, instead of elevens.

 

[iuwclurker]

Ruy Teixeira gets a lot right in this piece. Coming from a life long liberal, he discusses many of the same topics that are constantly debated here. Maybe most surprising was the poll results coming from the state of Massachusetts, not exactly the most conservative part of the country.


Common Sense

Here are his 10 common sense views and values:

Equality of opportunity is a fundamental American principle; equality of outcome is not.

America is not perfect but it is good to be patriotic and proud of the country.

Discrimination and racism are bad but they are not the cause of all disparities in American society.

No one is completely without bias but calling all white people racists who benefit from white privilege and American society a white supremacist society is not right or fair.

America benefits from the presence of immigrants and no immigrant, even if illegal, should be mistreated. But border security is still important, as is an enforceable system that fairly decides who can enter the country.

Police misconduct and brutality against people of any race is wrong and we need to reform police conduct and recruitment. More and better policing is needed for public safety and that cannot be provided by “defunding the police”.

There are underlying differences between men and women but discrimination on the basis of gender is wrong.

There are basically two genders but people who want to live as a gender different from their biological sex should have that right and not be discriminated against. However, there are issues around child consent to transitioning and participation in women’s sports that are complicated and not settled.

Racial achievement gaps are bad and we should seek to close them. However, they are not due just to racism and standards of high achievement should be maintained for people of all races.

Language policing has gone too far; by and large, people should be able to express their views without fear of sanction by employer, school, institution or government. Good faith should be assumed, not bad faith.

 

[IUCrazy2]

Here are his 10 common sense views and values:

Equality of opportunity is a fundamental American principle; equality of outcome is not.

America is not perfect but it is good to be patriotic and proud of the country.

Discrimination and racism are bad but they are not the cause of all disparities in American society.

No one is completely without bias but calling all white people racists who benefit from white privilege and American society a white supremacist society is not right or fair.

America benefits from the presence of immigrants and no immigrant, even if illegal, should be mistreated. But border security is still important, as is an enforceable system that fairly decides who can enter the country.

Police misconduct and brutality against people of any race is wrong and we need to reform police conduct and recruitment. More and better policing is needed for public safety and that cannot be provided by “defunding the police”.

There are underlying differences between men and women but discrimination on the basis of gender is wrong.

There are basically two genders but people who want to live as a gender different from their biological sex should have that right and not be discriminated against. However, there are issues around child consent to transitioning and participation in women’s sports that are complicated and not settled.

Racial achievement gaps are bad and we should seek to close them. However, they are not due just to racism and standards of high achievement should be maintained for people of all races.

Language policing has gone too far; by and large, people should be able to express their views without fear of sanction by employer, school, institution or government. Good faith should be assumed, not bad faith.

Nothing to quibble with there at all really. I think that would get us back to a point where we are disagreeing on how to fix the problems as opposed to disagreeing on what the problems are to begin with (which is where I think we are now).

 

[Mas-sa-suta]

Ruy Teixeira gets a lot right in this piece. Coming from a life long liberal, he discusses many of the same topics that are constantly debated here. Maybe most surprising was the poll results coming from the state of Massachusetts, not exactly the most conservative part of the country.


Common Sense

Great find Jim....