2006-09-06

Thomas Sowell: The new nomenklatura

"The green nomenklatura talk egalitarianism like the old red nomenklatura and similarly ride roughshod over others while doing it. Their economic ethnic cleansing has driven tens of thousands of blacks out of some liberal Democratic counties.

There were 79,000 blacks living in San Francisco in 1990 and 46,000 today. So any people with children are leaving these bastions of liberal Democratic environmentalists as to force many schools in these counties to close.

But the new nomenklatura go around feeling good about themselves while leaving havoc in their wake."

2 comments:

Unknown said...

"But the new nomenklatura go around feeling good about themselves while leaving havoc in their wake."

This sentence sums up today's modern, contemporary, leftist liberalism. It's all about about feeling good about yourself, not about actually accomplishing anything constructive.

Paul Hue said...

TS has been banging this drum for a long time, to deaf ears. It demonstrates the intellectual immaturity of leftist, wanting -- demanding! -- mutually incompatable phenomena:

Pristine landscapes...
...and affordable energy.
...and affordable housing.
...and economically and ethnically diverse populations.

Taking money from evil "rich" people...
...and a high-employment economy with opportunities for upward mobility.

Schools that produce students who perform well intellectually
...and curricula stuffed with non-intellectual matters.

No "price-gouging"...
...and ample supplies during disasters.

"Universal healthcare"...
...and a maximum number of people having access to medical treatment. I love the example of "universal healthcare" in Canada, with people waiting months for treatment, having had half their income confisicated in taxes and none leftover to travel to the US and pay.