Activism Whack-A-Mole

Justice. Equality. Freedom. There are a lot of unmet needs for the restless heart, especially when wants and rights and needs coalesce. 

Are incomes the same? Should they be? How can we fix it? How about housing? Or food? Does the climate affect someone negatively? Are the lives of people in South Carolina more comfortable than those in Wisconsin? Is that fair?

Progressivism is not about smoothing out differences, it is about making the bell curve a straight vertical line. If you consider that task, it will require considerable power.

And persistence. There are a virtually infinite number of "unmet needs." Patch one hole (say health care) and lots more will pop up, such child care, or free college education. Patch those holes, and still more unmet needs will pop up, such as housing and high speed rail. Combine that with the inefficiency of big government, as well as all the new problems identified by special interest groups, and you have a recipe for continual disappointment.

So the ambition--and disappointment--will never end.

 

But if difference in circumstance is an injustice, at some point the disappointment will turn to anger. And that, at least, will be more familiar to us.