The progressive are making up a crisis to gain power, fine, however

the progressive movement is strong enough now that they are the crisis

appeasement all ways turns out just fine

will we ever learn

Despite Election Rhetoric, America Is Not in Crisis | National Review

damonramirez:

FTA
Prosperity Doesn’t End Hatred. Many Israelis assume that if Palestinians gain sufficiently from the
economic, medical, legal, and other benefits that Zionism brings them,
they will relent and accept the Jewish presence. Based on a Marxist
assumption that money matters more than ideas, this outlook holds that
fine schools, late-model cars, and handsome apartments are the antidote
to Palestinian nationalist dreams. Like Atlantans, prosperous
Palestinians will be too busy to hate.
This idea began over a century ago, peaked around the time of the
Oslo accords in 1993, and is closely associated with then-foreign
minister Shimon Peres, author of the book, The New Middle East. Peres
aimed to turn Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinians into a Middle East
version of Benelux. More grandly, his vision hoped to emulate
the French-German accord following World War II when economic ties
served to end a historic enmity and form positive political bonds.In this spirit, Israeli leaders have long worked to build the West
Bank and Gazan economies. They lobbied foreign governments to fund the
PA. They helped Gaza by subsidizing water and electricity, also facilitating water desalination plants. They proposed international support for an artificial island off the Gaza coast with a port, airport, and resort. They even gave Gaza a gas field. But this effort failed, spectacularly so. Palestinian fury against
Israel remains undiminished. Further, goodwill gestures have been met,
not with gratitude, but with rejection. For example, upon the unilateral
withdrawal of all Israelis from Gaza in 2005, their greenhouses were
turned over to the Palestinians as a goodwill gesture, only to be
immediately looted and destroyed.[6]Perhaps most egregious are the instances of Palestinians treated in
Israeli hospitals who show their gratitude by attempting to murder their
benefactors. In 2005, a 21-year-old Gaza woman was successfully treated
in Beersheba for burns from a gas-tank explosion; she then returned the
favor by attempting to attack the hospital as a suicide bomber. In
2011, a Gazan mother whose infant lacked an immune system and who was
saved at an Israeli hospital announced on camera that she wanted him to
grow up to be a suicide bomber. In 2017, two sisters entering Israel from Gaza, so one of them could
receive cancer treatment, attempted to smuggle explosives for Hamas.

Why the failure? The French-German model included a factor absent from
the Israeli-Palestinian theater: The defeat of the Nazis. Conciliation
occurred not with Hitler still in power but after he and his goals had
been pulverized; in contrast, the great majority of Palestinians still
believe they can win (i.e., eliminate the Jewish state). They also view
efforts at building their economy with suspicion, as Israel sneakily
achieving hegemonic control.

Israel 25 Years after the Oslo Accords: Why Israelis Shy from Victory

cultml:

In my speech I explained that I liked meritocracy for much the same
reason. I regard inequality as an inevitable by-product of limited
government, which history teaches us is preferable to excessive state
power. In common with many utopian socialists, my father believed the
state would just ‘wither away’ once it had overseen a massive
redistribution of wealth and power, but I’ve always been sceptical. Such
optimism is contingent on a conception of human nature that is belied
by science, particularly evolutionary psychology: that man is a
peace-loving, altruistic creature who can be depended upon not to engage
in predation, cruelty, warfare, sexual enslavement and homicidal
violence once the workers’ paradise has been created.

Both books make the point that it isn’t just lack of opportunities that
have alienated the poorly educated in Britain and the US. It’s also the
elite’s callous disregard for their anxieties about the erosion of
their communities. When the white working-class — and non-whites, too —
express their concerns about mass immigration, they’re dismissed as
‘-racist’ and ‘xenophobic’.

I like the idea of meritocracy as much as my father hated it | The Spectator