THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

NOTHING WORKS IF YOU REFUSE TO "TELL IT LIKE IT IS" | 2002-01-19

Foreign aid since the Marshall Plan has been a consistent failure because it has been planned by liberal "intellectuals." All Politically Correct plans fail.

There is nothing mysterious about the repeated failures of Politically Correct foreign aid programs. There is nothing mysterious about the failure of ALL Politically Correct programs in every area of life

But since it is a bunch of PhDs who are doing these disastrous things, we think that what is being done wrong is somehow the result of highly sophisticated, highly intellectual, hard-to-understand failings that require books and mathematical equations to explain.

What academics are doing is not complicated. What they are doing is silly. They are violating some very simple rules of life, rules the rest of us can see clearly.

But as long as we keep treating leftism as if it were something highly sophisticated and intellectual, we will never expose them.

The problem is that anyone who calls the silly stuff "silly," in other words, anyone who tells it like it is, will not be allowed to say it in the media. Showing respect for these ridiculous little eggheads is how conservatives stay "respectable." Until the respectable conservatives are discredited, leftists will keep their power and money.

So on foreign aid, as in the case of each subject before, Whitaker Online will now explain the commonsense rules, the rules real people know, that the so-called "intellectuals" are ignoring.