Second time this week, I’m in agreement with a NY Times columnist, at least on the language I quote if not the overarching Obama-maniacal subtext. First, it was Maureen Dowd writing on the cowardice of Eric Holder. Now David Brooks, warning that the administration’s economic plans may be one large social experiment which ends badly:
The political history of the 20th century is the history of social-engineering projects executed by well-intentioned people that began well and ended badly….
The people in the administration are surrounded by a galaxy of unknowns, and yet they see this economic crisis as an opportunity to expand their reach, to take bigger risks and, as Obama said on Saturday, to tackle every major problem at once….
All in all, I can see why the markets are nervous and dropping. And it’s also clear that we’re on the cusp of the biggest political experiment of our lifetimes. If Obama is mostly successful, then the epistemological skepticism natural to conservatives will have been discredited. We will know that highly trained government experts are capable of quickly designing and executing top-down transformational change. If they mostly fail, then liberalism will suffer a grievous blow, and conservatives will be called upon to restore order and sanity.
One big social experiment which likely will end badly. And this coming from Mr. Brooks, who counts himself an adoring admirer of Obama. Ugh!
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It’s been scary. Dowd has been making good points lately.
Don’t jump to conclusions. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.