On that Idiot Socialist Chick from New York Recently Putting Down the Concept of a Meritocracy (the Implication of Course Being that People - Minorities, Especially - Can Only Succeed with Government Help - or as I Prefer to Call it, Interference)

Her ignorance is breathtaking in that she is obviously unaware of how meritocracies (even those with restraints!!) have permitted the Chinese to succeed in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam, the Japanese to succeed in Canada and the U.S., the Germans to succeed in Russia and Czechoslovakia, the Italians to succeed in Argentina, the Jews to succeed pretty much everywhere (including Nazi Germany), etc., etc.. and AND when you throw in the progress that blacks had made in this country prior to the welfare state (from 1865 to the early 1960s) she's even more full of bullshit. Hopefully the Democratic party can go back to its saner roots (JFK, Moynihan, Al Smith, Mayors Koch and Daley, etc.) 'cause if it keeps going down this socialist path...……...I don't even want to think about it.