Josh Barro Thinks He Is Smarter Than You!

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Vast swathes of policy are based on the correct presumption that people don't know what's best for them. Nothing new. http://t.co/RmKSaIPP3p

— Josh Barro (@jbarro) October 29, 2013

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Elitist technocrats are also the ones making you buy pasteurized milk and buy cars with seat belts.

— Josh Barro (@jbarro) October 29, 2013

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Every once in a while Vile Prog Fascists let the mask slip. They claim to be pro-choice, but that’s only if you make the correct choices. The truth is they don’t think the rest of us are smart enough to manage our own lives. So they want to do it for us.

It’s for our own good. Really, it is. If we were and smart and informed like they are we would agree with them. Unfortunately we are “low-info” types who don’t know what’s best for us. Basically, we’re like big third graders.

If you give a third grader a choice between junk food and a healthy nutritious diet, they’ll binge out on junk. So you have to make rules for them. And if they get some money for Christmas or their birthday you take most of it from them and save it cuz otherwise they’ll just blow it.

Of course in order to protect children you have to control them. You have to have authority over them. If you have to spank your kids it’s only because you love them. That’s why modern progressivism is paternalistic at it’s core. After all, father knows best.

It’s the modern version of the White Man’s Burden. It’s the Progressive’s Burden. (It’s just a coincidence that most progressives like Josh Barro are white males.)

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Take up the White Man’s burden–
Send forth the best ye breed–
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives’ need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild–
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.

Take up the White Man’s burden–
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain
To seek another’s profit,
And work another’s gain.

Take up the White Man’s burden–
The savage wars of peace–
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.

Take up the White Man’s burden–
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper–
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go mark them with your living,
And mark them with your dead.

Take up the White Man’s burden–
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard–
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:–
“Why brought he us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?”

Take up the White Man’s burden–
Ye dare not stoop to less–
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloke your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your gods and you.

Take up the White Man’s burden–
Have done with childish days–
The lightly proferred laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!

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