Friday, August 10, 2012

Ten Things

Gavin McInnes is a libertarian who believes that there are some things liberals get right. He's correct about this, of course, although I don't know that he's correct on the specific things he mentions in this article. At any rate he lists ten examples of issues on which he agrees at least somewhat with the liberal position.

It's an amusing read, the tone of which he establishes at the outset:
[U]nlike extremist Muslims and Hasidic Jews, some of the things [liberals] believe are actually correct. For example:
  1. AMERICAN FOOD PORTIONS ARE TOO LARGE
  2. CEO SALARIES ARE TOO HIGH
  3. OBAMACARE IS A GOOD IDEA
  4. WAR IS BAD
  5. WOMEN WHO GET PREGNANT FROM A RAPE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO ABORT
  6. GAYS SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET MARRIED
  7. BLACKS ARE VICTIMS OF SYSTEMIC RACISM
  8. BIG BUSINESS HAS TOO MUCH INFLUENCE ON CAPITOL HILL
  9. MACHINE GUNS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL
  10. DRUGS SHOULD BE LEGAL
When you read McInnes' rationale for each of these you'll probably find yourself agreeing with more of them than you might have expected to.