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Eminent economist and conservative columnist Thomas Sowell said Tuesday that the willful ignorance of many Leftist radicals may well lead America down the path of socialism—and inevitable decline.
While Sowell noted that most economists predicted such a movement was unlikely to gain traction in the U.S., “I do have a great fear that in the long run we may not make it,” he told Fox Business Network’s David Asman during a segment of “Cavuto: Coast-to-Coast.”
But he added that in the current climate of tossing out plain-sighted, empirical evidence in favor of populist, emotional appeals and groupthink, the odds were stacked against America. “We may make it, but I wouldn’t bet on it,” he said.
One of the key problems, he noted, was that Americans lacked access to the necessary facts since much information comes filtered through the vested agendas of the educational system and the mass media.
“If people have never heard those things because the media filters out things that go against what they believe, then the charge can stick no matter what the facts may happen to be,” he said.
“Before I was a Marxist I was an empiricist, and I stayed an empiricist,” he said. “And with the passing years, I simply, as I looked into more and more things, I saw the difference between reality and the rhetoric.”
Increasingly, though, the influence of politics had resulted in the suppression and subversion of fact-driven decision-making.
“Politicians stay in office by saying things that people want to hear and by not accepting evidence that shows they’ve gone wrong,” Sowell said.
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