Maggie's Farm

She's right and she's not right. She's right about the lazy thinking about public policy that most people do, but I think she gives those attitudes too much credit for staying power. Had any sufficiently large public or political entity spent the last generation really explaining to the public why those attitudes would create something unsustainable--and do that consistently and with integrity (yeah, the i-word leaves any political party out of that list)--those attitudes wouldn't be so strong. And most people, even "progressives," can be brought around pretty easily to her argument if pressed by someone they trust. The numbers are real, they are not fairy dust.