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The policies of the socialist left, under the banners
of "social justice," "equality," and
"compassion," have inflicted catastrophe in many
forms—poverty, moral decline, criminality, violence, illness, and
death—upon countless millions of people. The programs and
policies that led to these disastrous outcomes were often
promoted by "progressives" as expressions of high-minded "liberal" idealism that
promised to improve the living conditions not only of people in
great need, but also of those in the middle class.
Leftists view their own prescriptions
for all manner of social ills—e.g., racism, sexism, homophobia,
intolerance, greed, alienation—as solutions uniquely rooted in
enlightenment and decency. (By contrast, they portray conservative
social policy as the outgrowth of selfishness, greed and
mean-spiritedness.) But the solutions they have advanced in the form of social and ideological crusades, often prosecuted with messianic zeal, have actually brought immense, needless suffering to the
very same "victims" in whose names they have
acted.
Specifically, this section of DiscoverTheNetworks examines:
- how a host of leftist attitudes and public policies have inflicted incalculable harm on the black community;
- how the welfare state in particular has
devastated African Americans, miring them in decade upon decade of
family breakdown, poverty, and criminal victimization;
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how the housing crisis of 2008,
which was a direct result of leftwing government policies that
forced lending institutions to abandon the common-sense practices
they had traditionally employed, plundered the wealth of
nonwhites and wiped out literally decades of economic progress they
had made;
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how the public education system,
dominated by leftist ideology and unfailingly supportive of the
Democratic Party, has consigned generations of blacks &
Hispanics to academic failure and, consequently, to lives of poverty
and underachievement;
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how left-wing law-enforcement
policies in Democrat-controlled black and Hispanic population
centers have needlessly sent millions of minorities to early
graves;
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the massive costs that the ever-expanding welfare
state imposes on American taxpayers;
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how the radical gay Left's refusal
to accept traditional public-health practices needlessly caused
hundreds of thousands of homosexuals to die of AIDS; and
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how progressive Democratic policies have turned particular American cities and states into hotbeds of poverty and crime.
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