The World According to Liberals

¿Leyeron la columna que colgó Ramiro ayer sobre el esquema mental de la progresía en EEUU? No comparto aquello de que las políticas progres contribuyeron a reducir la pobreza después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (en realidad fueron un fracaso fenomenal), pero la descripción del mundo de fantasía en el que vive gran parte de la izquierda es muy interesante:

What is that paradigm? The basic premise is that the population is divided into three groups. By far the largest group consists of ordinary people. They are good, God fearing and hard working. But they are also often ignorant of their true self-interest ("What's the matter with Kansas?") and thus easily misled. They are also politically weak and thus need to be protected from the second group, which is politically strong.

The second group, far smaller, are the affluent, successful businessmen, corporate executives and financiers. Capitalists in other words. They are the establishment and it is the establishment that, by definition, runs the country. They are, in the liberal paradigm, smart, ruthless and totally self-interested. They care only about personal gain.

And then there is the third group, those few, those happy few, that band of brothers, the educated and enlightened liberals, who understand what is really going on and want to help the members of the first group to live a better and more satisfying life. Unlike the establishment, which supposedly cares only for itself, liberals supposedly care for society as a whole and have no personal self-interest.