Comments on: ATTACKING OBAMA: THIS AIN’T ABOUT MANDATES http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/12/08/attacking-obama-this-aint-about-mandates/ Cleaning the Augean Stables of the Health Care Debate Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:56:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Catron http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/12/08/attacking-obama-this-aint-about-mandates/#comment-12066 Catron Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:08:41 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/12/08/attacking-obama-this-aint-about-mandates/#comment-12066 I use the term "faux-progressive" to designate people who pose as progressives but spend most of their time defending the status quo. A classic example would be Krugman's resistance to social security reform. For health care, faux-progressives promote statist solutions (i.e. government-run health care) conceived two generations ago--despite the fact that such solutions have uniformly failed. And if Krugman is a "progressive," why did he work for the Reagan Administration and Enron? I use the term “faux-progressive” to designate people who pose as progressives but spend most of their time defending the status quo. A classic example would be Krugman’s resistance to social security reform.

For health care, faux-progressives promote statist solutions (i.e. government-run health care) conceived two generations ago–despite the fact that such solutions have uniformly failed.

And if Krugman is a “progressive,” why did he work for the Reagan Administration and Enron?

]]> By: shadowfax http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/12/08/attacking-obama-this-aint-about-mandates/#comment-12048 shadowfax Sun, 09 Dec 2007 13:40:21 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/12/08/attacking-obama-this-aint-about-mandates/#comment-12048 "Faux-progressives" You use that phrase a lot. I do not think it means what you think it means. Krugman is by far more progressive than Obama. Obama is left-center; Krugman is pretty far left. There's nothing "faux" about either of them. It might sound nice as a general term of derision, but it doesn't make sense, unless you are making some sort of nihilistic argument that every person in the public sphere who pretends to have leftward tendencies is faking it. “Faux-progressives”

You use that phrase a lot. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Krugman is by far more progressive than Obama. Obama is left-center; Krugman is pretty far left. There’s nothing “faux” about either of them. It might sound nice as a general term of derision, but it doesn’t make sense, unless you are making some sort of nihilistic argument that every person in the public sphere who pretends to have leftward tendencies is faking it.

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