VDH: Our Make It Up World

[Benko]

This was posted by Dan Simmons (multi-award winning author and JFK liberal) below his Dictator Day simulation comments. 

Our Make-It-Up World
Facts now pale in comparison with the higher truths of progressivism.
By Victor Davis Hanson

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/3 ... vis-hanson

[pp4me3]

This was posted by Dan Simmons (multi-award winning author and JFK liberal) below his Dictator Day simulation comments. 

Our Make-It-Up World
Facts now pale in comparison with the higher truths of progressivism.
By Victor Davis Hanson

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/3 ... vis-hanson

I like a lot of VDH's columns but then every once in a while he will come out with one that convinces me he believes in the manifest destiny of the USA to rule the world and then I think he is just as nuts as all the liberal/progressives whose ideas he is denouncing.

[moda0306]

Perhaps it is because more and more I like a rational discussion regarding any topic, but I found this article incredibly annoying.  Essentially a huge straw man rant. Picking out the worst acts of liberals and building the worst possible thought narrative around them.  This drivel shouldn't pass for rational thought/debate.

[Benko]

Perhaps it is because more and more I like a rational discussion regarding any topic, but I found this article incredibly annoying.  Essentially a huge straw man rant. Picking out the worst acts of liberals and building the worst possible thought narrative around them.  This drivel shouldn't pass for rational thought/debate.

"Essentially a huge straw man rant."

A straw man is is an informal fallacy based on the misrepresentation of an opponent's argument

WHere are the straw men?  I don't see them.  I will give that that while much of the below are blatant lies to achieve an agenda, some are probably just incompetence. 

1. Obamacare:  "Americans were assured that the Affordable Care Act lowered our premiums. It cut deductibles. Obamacare allowed us to keep our doctors and health plans, and lowered the deficit."

Most of that was said.  Over and over and over again.  This is was blatant dishonesty. 

2.  "The Islamic State is at times dubbed jayvee"
Obama did say that, although he later tried to spin his comments:

Obama said, "I wasn't specifically referring to ISIL [ISIS]," a claim the Washington Post Fact Checker gave four Pinocchios for being misleading."The interviewer was certainly asking about ISIS when Obama answered with his “JV”? remarks," concluded the Washington Post.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014 ... -a-JV-Team

3.  EBOLA:  "Some days Americans are told there is no reason to restrict connecting flights from Ebola-ravaged countries. Then, suddenly, entry from those countries is curtailed to five designated U.S. airports."

No need for quarantine, but service men returning are being quarantined.

4.  The deaths of four Americans in Benghazi were caused by a video that sparked a riot, and then apparently not. Various narratives about corruption and incompetence at the VA, IRS, NSA, GSA, and Secret Service are raised and then dropped. The larger truth is that these scandals must be quarantined from infecting the president’s progressive agenda.