Benjamin Kepple and Oliver Willis are debating the effectiveness of abstience education.
Look, we had forty years of hare-brained liberal inventions that will never die. So far, liberals only apply the "it doesn't work" standard to the ballistic missile shield and abstinence education. They fiercely resisted its application to Keynesian spending, tax hikes, welfare and entitlement programs, the entire public education system, foreign policy under Carter and Clinton, and lord knows what else. Liberals have never in the past been troubled that their ideas were "unrealistic" or "pie-in-the-sky" - why should they start now? More importantly, is this a shift in thinking, or merely an expedient pretext?
Let's embrace our left-leaning fellows and their new pragmatism - it means the wholesale dismantling of the bureaucracy they love so dearly.
Pass me the sledgehammer.
Posted by wasylik at February 1, 2002 12:39 PM | TrackBack