The much missed Dr. Sanity (see the blogroll to the left) commented and analyzed the disorder that is leftist thinking in one of her last posting before going on hiatus.

She examined the arguments and method thinking that permeates the Liberal approach to explaining the world. Her points go a long way to explaining why every entirely forseeable event takes the current occupant of the Oval Office by surprise and why the Left will never be able to recognize (much less take responsibility for) the results of their actions.

Well worth reading.

64. RWE; Nice point re: the Cargo Cult thing, just as the Cargo Cult says; “runway + building = airplanes full of goodies”, Marxist logic says; “factory + workers = production” it completely misunderstands the other variables in play (profitability, competition, location etc. etc.) and thus cannot comprehend why things aren’t working. A good example of this is “worker education” programs. Unemployed factory workers are given some sort of perfunctory “college education” to prepare them for “new high-tech” jobs. Unfortunately the atmosphere of over-regulation and uncertainty that caused the unemployment in the first place is also preventing the opening of new businesses and thus the hiring of these newly-minted “tech-workers”. To a Leftie the equation “worker + education = job” is valid (heck it worked for them, Daddy put them through an Ivy, they got a job with a Government Agency, ta-da! education = employment).

They simply cannot understand that economies are not linear structures.

They have killed and eaten the Golden Goose and do understand why she will not any longer lay eggs.