FW Porretto,#22.
so, psychologically, the modern day progressive is obsessed with laying out the world as a set of assumptions and, concomitantly, he or she being the only elephant in the room with meaningful, not to mention “moral”, solutions to said problems
It’s a rigid mindset, maybe a wonk mindset. Likely, progressives are really just neatniks of the mind, cultivated in the hothouse atmosphere of academic institutions with little or no practical experience in the “real” world.
Reinforcing each other and not having seen any challenges to their self-righteous little ideas or the worth of their capacities & analysis, in their own minds they are ipso facto always right.
…specific policy positions and a posteriori justifications for their failure
The explanation this President offered up for MA vote yesterday (“people expressed the same frustration they did after 8 years of Bush”) certainly qualifies as “a posteriori justification”.
