anti-freedom biases at NYT

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As for lazy college kids voting for Obama, Obama also won college graduates and won those with advanced degrees by an even wider margin. Obama won a great many demographics. That's why he is, you know, POTUS.

If you want to read something that is "anti-freedom", check out the enhanced emergency manager powers passed in Michigan a few months ago that allow the Republican governor to replace municipal governments in the state with hand-picked emergency managers, break union contracts, declare a municipality bankrupt, etc. It removes all power from local elected officials and replaces them with Republican managers. It may be a good idea, but democratic? Not so much.

It was just invoked last week on a small town and that's just the beginning of it.

As for lazy college kids voting for Obama, Obama also won college graduates and won those with advanced degrees by an even wider margin. Obama won a great many demographics. That's why he is, you know, POTUS.

If you want to read something that is "anti-freedom", check out the enhanced emergency manager powers passed in Michigan a few months ago that allow the Republican governor to replace municipal governments in the state with hand-picked emergency managers, break union contracts, declare a municipality bankrupt, etc. It removes all power from local elected officials and replaces them with Republican managers. It may be a good idea, but democratic? Not so much.

It was just invoked last week on a small town and that's just the beginning of it.

So, how much charity do you give, and to what causes? Political causes, I suspect, which aren't charity.

This Rethuglican governor also raised taxes on retired state workers with fixed incomes as low as $20,000 while giving others tax breaks.

That and the New York Times trying to be relevant, which they lost relevancy in 2008-2009 at the latest.

It's called trying to attract businesses to move to Michigan so there is an economy with Jobs so people can actually find work. Living in cardboard boxes may be the liberal idea of utopia, but it is not the average American's idea of decent living.

I'm honestly surprised anyone still lived in Michigan for anyone to be voted in as Governor in the first place, last I heard the economy has been a disaster in that state for nearly two decades.

I don't live there if that's what you are implying. They apparently sent smoke signals out of the state so that the world would know.

As to the meaning of your post? We'll leave that for future researchers. You never know what they might piece together.

2. More importantly, the NYT seeks to tag the unempathetic as individualists (AKA libertarians). But this doesn't make sense. The lazy, unempathetic college student who flunks out then expects "society" - a collective - to provide for said college kid is not an individualist. He/she is a collectivist. He/she wants a handout from others. That is unempathetic and collectivist.

Furthermore, the new college kids voted almost unanimously for Obama, a collectivist, largely because they liked his policies such as "government" paying for their medical care (giving them free stuff that was stolen from older people). In other words, they voted for a collectivist for non-empathic reasons (they didn't empathize with the taxpayers getting stolen from, or those who wanted to have free choice in their medical decisions). Hence, the claim that college kids are increasingly individualistic is demonstrated to be false by looking at their typically 'political left'/statist voting record.

So, the theory that college kids are increasingly individualistic and non-empathic is likely half true. They may well be losing empathy, but this would be a sign that are increasingly collectivist, wanting handouts to finance their lazy lifestyle. On the other hand. the individualist represents the highest of empathy - the person who wishes to produce for himself, not leech off others and deny them free choice.

And it's been known for years that the Nordic countries have the world's highest levels of happiness, despite being very "collectivist" by your standards (aka: have a large welfare state). Just saying.