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Insanity: The New Normal

Mike

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Five Ways that Insanity Has Become the New Normal in America
TownHall | March 17, 2009 | John Hawkins


Since Barack Obama has been elected, gun sales and copies of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged have flown off the shelves. Meanwhile, there's a Russian academic all over the news predicting that America will soon collapse, "tea parties" springing up all over the country, and the stock market has been doing a great impression of Michael Richards' career since he left Seinfeld.

Is that because people have gone crazy? No, it's the reaction of sane people to the crazy as a football bat insanity that has begun to pass for conventional wisdom in large swathes of America. Living in this country today is like sitting in the back seat of a car that's hurtling towards the edge of a cliff at a hundred miles an hour while the driver fiddles with the radio and the guy in the passenger seat mocks the very idea of using brakes.

When sheer insanity becomes the new normal, people who can admit that the emperor has no clothes are left to point out:


The Global Warming Fraud: ...


The Lawsuit Lottery:


Demonizing Success and Rewarding Failure: ...


Spending Money Like We're Never Going To Have To Pay It Back: ...


Our Topsy-Turvy Approach To Illegal Immigration: ...

What you subsidize, you get more of and what you penalize, you decrease. That's one of the oldest and simplest lessons in the book; yet it's one we never seem to learn.


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