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Why you're a terrible person for not agreeing with her

A HuffPo liberal says beautifully what they're all thinking

By Dan Calabrese ——--June 29, 2017

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If you know Kayla Chadwick, I certainly hope you agree with her politics. If not, she considers you an awful person and has nothing left to say to you. Then again, maybe that's not such a bad outcome for you. If she opens her mouth and starts talking, you're going to hear quite the self-righteous diatribe of moral superiority. My favorite thing that liberals say is that they don't judge, right before they declare you lower than dog defecation for disagreeing with their economic, social or international agenda. You! Don't! Care!
The fact that Huffington Post published this rant does not, in and of itself, make it worth commenting on. They publish a lot of crap by people you've never heard of and don't need to hear of. But I found it noteworthy because it tacks with things I hear liberals say when they think no one else is listening, or when they talk amongst themselves on social media and they forget that others can read what they're saying. If you really want to know what the left thinks of you, and of your refusal to embrace their agenda, this pretty much sums it up:
Personally, I’m happy to pay an extra 4.3 percent for my fast food burger if it means the person making it for me can afford to feed their own family. If you aren’t willing to fork over an extra 17 cents for a Big Mac, you’re a fundamentally different person than I am. I’m perfectly content to pay taxes that go toward public schools, even though I’m childless and intend to stay that way, because all children deserve a quality, free education. If this seems unfair or unreasonable to you, we are never going to see eye to eye. If I have to pay a little more with each paycheck to ensure my fellow Americans can access health care? SIGN ME UP. Poverty should not be a death sentence in the richest country in the world. If you’re okay with thousands of people dying of treatable diseases just so the wealthiest among us can hoard still more wealth, there is a divide between our worldviews that can never be bridged.
I don’t know how to convince someone how to experience the basic human emotion of empathy. I cannot have one more conversation with someone who is content to see millions of people suffer needlessly in exchange for a tax cut that statistically they’ll never see (do you make anywhere close to the median American salary? Less? Congrats, this tax break is not for you). I cannot have political debates with these people. Our disagreement is not merely political, but a fundamental divide on what it means to live in a society, how to be a good person, and why any of that matters. There are all kinds of practical, self-serving reasons to raise the minimum wage (fairly compensated workers typically do better work), fund public schools (everyone’s safer when the general public can read and use critical thinking), and make sure every American can access health care (outbreaks of preventable diseases being generally undesirable). But if making sure your fellow citizens can afford to eat, get an education, and go to the doctor isn’t enough of a reason to fund those things, I have nothing left to say to you.

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I can’t debate someone into caring about what happens to their fellow human beings. The fact that such detached cruelty is so normalized in a certain party’s political discourse is at once infuriating and terrifying.
You recognize immediately how she sees it: We're not debating how best to help people. We're debating whether to help people or screw them, and right wants to screw them just because that's the kind of cruel, awful people we are. Once she establishes her own moral superiority - why, she's willing to pay more for her burger and pay taxes for schools, you awful piece of trash! - she proceeds to demonstrate her utter lack of understanding about the way labor is valued, or the way health care is financed, or the way public schools are funded. None of this works the way she thinks it does, but it doesn't matter. She's happy as a clam to fork over that 17 cents, and if you're not, then you're just not as virtuous as she is. This is the essence of the left. They cannot imagine there is any way to make people's lives better, or to get them the things they need, apart from the big-government ideas the left has advocated for decades. This obviously works, and anything other than this obviously would not work, and everyone knows this. So anyone who opposes this approach is obviously driven by hatred, cruelty, selfishness and general lack of concern for others. Kayla Chadwick has decreed it. It must be so.

Broken promises of the Great Society programs of the 1960s

She doesn't appear to be very old, so I'm guessing she doesn't remember the broken promises of the Great Society programs of the 1960s, or the failures of the wage and price controls of the 1970s. She probably knows there are a lot of problems with ObamaCare, but without a doubt she's convinced it would all be fixed if only those mean Republicans would stop getting in the way and just raising taxes on the 1 percent to pay for whatever "fix" Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi want. When you lack historical perspective that severely, I guess it's understandable that you really believe everyone and everything would be OK if only the government just made us all share, and just passed more laws to make everything equal. If you don't understand how quickly this can lead to shortages of flour, toilet paper and milk, I'd take you to Venezuela and show you, but you might end up getting beaten up or shot. The socialist paradise is having a few problems. Maybe it will be better next week. There's actually a very worthy debate to be had over how best to promote prosperity and solve the problem of poverty. Anyone who reads me knows that I've always believed private-sector-driven free markets can do it better than command-and-control big government. I find the track record of big-government programs designed to help people is not very impressive. But I'm willing to acknowledge there are people on the other side who have worthy arguments, and that's why we have these discussions.
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Kayla Chadwick just made the mistake of expressing it in all its woke, self-righteous glory

But don't bother trying to have one with Kayla Chadwick. She knows the real reason you disagree with her. You just don't care. I could go on at length about the power of unrestrained free markets to create opportunity and lift people out of poverty, but Kayla has already decided I'm a horrible human being so she's not listening. If I thought her view was an extreme outlier, I wouldn't bother linking to it or commenting on it. She is not a significant person in her own right. But I don't think it's an outlier at all. I think it's pretty much what your average person milling around at the Democratic National Convention thinks. Or the average person who works in the news media. Or the average public school teacher, nonprofit employee or street activist. This is the prevailing thinking on the left these days. Kayla Chadwick just made the mistake of expressing it in all its woke, self-righteous glory. For that, I guess we should thank her. Except that she won't talk to us.

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