The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common sense. But the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?
Thomas SowellLiberals have been driven to the desperate expedient of attributing . . .social pathology in today's ghettos to 'a legacy of slavery' even though black children grew up with two parents more often under slavery than today.
Thomas SowellIn short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces the politiciansโ fingerprints on the murder weapon.
Thomas Sowell