Wasting Time With Alex

Want to see some serious bullshit?

As usual another leftist bunch of twits, this time at The Times, have conducted a serious evaluation of 235 nations of the world and ranked them, and concluded that the US sucks. Don’t despair however! See, there is a serious and obvious bias to all these rankings by these leftist organizations, too often done on purpose or because of their collectivist bias that you usually won’t get pointed out along with the results of the ranking system being used. Like with the questions asked with any survey done, the value of the rankings are only as significant as the criteria used to do the ranking. And you can spot the bias if you get good at reading between the lines. But let me give you a quick hint what to look for:

A one-year investigation and analysis of 235 countries and dependent territories has put the UK joint seventh in the premier league of nations. The top ten comprise also the Vatican, Sweden, Luxembourg, Monaco, Gibraltar, San Marino, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands and the Irish Republic.

The US lies 22nd and Switzerland, normally associated with wealth and untouchable stability, is rated 17th, losing points in the assessment of its social achievements.

Ah, of course! Social achievements! Well La-De-Dah! So a bunch of collectivists that skew the rankings by looking at how “progressive” a nation is, have somehow ranked the US, and many others without those high collectivist practices, low huh? Like similar healthcare ranking systems that constantly put the US lower than many of these countries we know have horrible government run healthcare systems because it does not have “free healthcare” - read government run healthcare for all but paid for only by the productive - the real importance of these rankings is to prop up collectivism. The fact is simply that despite the many and horrible problems with government run healthcare in countries like Britain and Canada what these ranking system really measure is not effectiveness or quality, but idiotic crap like “social justice” or “availability”. They are severely skewed in favor of systems where progressive collectivist practices are the norm. Simply put, the ranking system favors collectivism, and really of more importance the image of “social justice” introduced because of this collectivism, than the actual results produced by that collectivism, or lack there of. Strip this collectivist crap from these rankings and you can bet your ass the US ranks in the top 5, if not first.

So what you have here is nothing but a severely biased, and frankly meaningless ranking of nations, unless you are a socialist with an anti-US/anti-capitalist/anti-war agenda. Of course these days that seems to be the predominant line of action and thought around the world. We might have defeated the USSR, but the evils of collectivism seem to have spread further than ever in today’s world. While part of me often wishes these idiots could get a first hand taste of the world they would inherit without the US, I remain smart enough to know that I would prefer to never have to live through that hellish world.