That’s something the Democrats do all the time, right? From the very top, President Obama, trying to force European-style Socialism onto us, to the lowest ward-heeler in Madison, trying to drum up support for still another lefty candidate for some office or another to foist their liberal agenda on us.
The folks on the other side of the aisle, well, they’re too busy trying to balance the budget and create more jobs to have time to do any social engineering.
Except for school vouchers, so well-to-do folks get a little help in sending their kid to a private school.
And passing that Voter ID bill, which has nothing to do with social engineering and has everything to do about….well, I’m not sure what the voter ID law is designed to do.
Making sure that open-pit mine up north in the trout streams gets fast-tracked, to create all those jobs – that’s not social engineering. That’s jobs, baby: j-o-b-s.
Oh yes, and passing that law that will force Wisconsin cops to hold anybody who can’t prove they’re an American citizen or here in the U.S. lawfully….that’s not social engineering.
Privatizing huge swaths of government? Commerce? DNR? No social engineering there. Privatizing BadgerCare? Trying to dump SeniorCare? What’s social about that stuff? Damn, that Tommy Thompson was a socialist governor.
Locking down the Capitol building? Has everything to do with security and nothing to do with social engineering. And it keeps those smelly hippies outta the people’s haus.
And for God’s sake, can’t we once and for all make abortion a crime in this state? After all the work that nice Julaine Appling and that nice lady she shares a house with have tried to do to keep marriage safe for straight folks like Randy Hopper, can’t we at minimum go back to the days when it used to be difficult to get an abortion in Wisconsin?
Guns. Lots of guns. Guns for everyone. Guns everywhere. This has nothing to do with social engineering and everything to do with honoring the intent of our founding fathers and the framers of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Some of those amendments are really good!
Politics is just like herding sheep. You have to guide people to help them feel the right way about things.
Colonel,
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Found this on Wikipedia: "In practice, whether any specific policy is labeled as social engineering is often a question of intent. The term is most often used by libertarians, free-market thinkers, and traditionalists as an accusation against anyone who proposes to use law, tax policy, or other kinds of state influence to change existing social mores or power relationships: for instance, between men and women, or between different ethnic groups. Political conservatives in the United States have accused their opponents of social engineering through the promotion of political correctness, insofar as it may change social attitudes by defining 'acceptable' and 'unacceptable' language or acts, and through such programs as the banning of prayers at public events. Political liberals in the United States have accused their opponents of social engineering through the promotion of abstinence-only sex education, the English-only movement, sodomy laws and state sponsored school prayer."
I'd say that you're actually talking about political engineering. Railing about the 2nd Amendment, for example, seems rather pointless. Might as well rail against the 22nd Amendment. Heck! If there were no such thing we might still have Bill Clinton in the Oval Office!
Oh, I see! This is a collection of your favorite examples of spin-doctoring! That one about vouchers was pretty good.
The Town Crank
Neenah
well-to-do folks get a little help in sending their kid to a private school
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Making sure that open-pit mine up north in the trout streams gets fast-tracked, to create all those jobs
Probably the ONLY trout-stream north of the Ohio River and east of the Rockies, too.
that law that will force Wisconsin cops to hold anybody who can’t prove they’re an American citizen or here in the U.S. lawfully
Slave to the AP mischaracterization factory...
can’t we once and for all make abortion a crime in this state?
Again? The law is still on the books, over-ridden by the most egregious Bad Decision of SCOTUS since Dred Scott.
Guns. Lots of guns. Guns for everyone. Guns everywhere
You forgot ammo, silly.