tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post4118958818074970160..comments2024-03-27T08:40:31.785-06:00Comments on Clayton Cramer.: No Such Thing As Bad Publicity Clayton Cramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03258083387204776812noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post-43808393608428599872019-09-08T09:20:22.076-06:002019-09-08T09:20:22.076-06:00Complete agreement. The historian Page Smith'...Complete agreement. The historian Page Smith's history of the Constitution admitted that his sympathies were with progressives, but the sinful nature of mankind reflected in the Founders' thinking was a more accurate set of ideas.Clayton Cramerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03258083387204776812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post-29929055566884507422019-09-07T20:55:50.952-06:002019-09-07T20:55:50.952-06:00The biggest blind spot in progressive thinking is ...The biggest blind spot in progressive thinking is the utter failure to understand how people react to things. That's why their economic policies are so destructive. It's why their foreign policy doesn't work. <br /><br />And at the theoretical level, the fundamental flaw in progressivism, dating to Rousseau, is a flawed understanding of human nature, all the way back to the denial of original sin - i.e. the progressive believe that all human behavior is a result of the environment, which can be changed to fix all human problems. Stalin (via Lysenko and mass murder) and Pol Pot (via mass murder) were informed by that dangerous belief. It's also why they were so fond of Freud's ideas, and remain fond of his successors in psychgology.StormCchaserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02998174514362089471noreply@blogger.com