Amazing that Reich was once the Secretary of Labor. People in their dotage used to just mumble their insanity to themselves.
Sinema Would Slap the Little Runt Silly
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
“ People in their dotage used to just mumble their insanity to themselves.”
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Why is the left so violent when it can’t get its catastrophic designs?
From Instapundit: “Sane citizens of this still great Republic can breathe a sigh of relief after last night. The Democrats’ mad plan to turn the United States of America into USSR 2.0 was thwarted by the thinnest of bipartisan margins.”
May 2020 the Democrat attack on White House left 60 Secret Service members wounded and President Trump evacuated to a safe location.
Reich at the age of 66 divorced his wife. Even in this shabby age, that’s quite unusual.
Ca. 1983 he was a regular contributor to The New Republic on industrial policy. It was not a subject he should have been tackling (he was a law professor whose only exposure to economics and business was a stint of employment at the Federal Trade Commission), but the articles were temperate enough and it can be useful to have a perspective from outside an occupational guild. Although he worked for the Clintons and had a decades long association with them, he also had a critical distance from them and was not their reflexive defender.
You see the crud he pushes on Facebook. It reminds you of the last years of Wm. F. Buckley’s pal Jeffrey Hart, when he was trading in conspirazoid rubbish and offering endorsements of cretins like John Kerry and Barack Obama. His family admitted in his obituary that he’d been demented for a number of years. By some accounts, he also had a history as a lush (which may have contributed to the dementia).
Little wonder that when he was Labor Secretary, he was studiously ignored by all. So much so, that he wrote an equally ignored volume titled “Lost in the Cabinet.”
The poor man (Robert 3rd Reich) is to be forgiven, since his only concern, as he struggles along with his over $300k salary annually at UC Berkeley, is for the common man.
Always for the common man, always for the common man.
Art,
It’s actually not that unusual for the elderly to divorce. For example, see here:
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/09/led-by-baby-boomers-divorce-rates-climb-for-americas-50-population/
Each generation has its own evils to answer for. For example, cancel culture is the Millennials’ dark gift. One of the primary evils of the Baby Boomers is widespread divorce. Historically the age bracket with the highest increases in divorce rates has been however old the baby boomers happen to be. You would think that eventually it would peter out after all the boomers tempted by divorce get divorced, but since that generation also has a tendency to remarry, and remarry again, the trend can continue.
I’m surprised nobody called out Reich for advocating violence against women. Then again, I shouldn’t be, since all “progressives” get a pass.
It’s actually not that unusual for the elderly to divorce.
Oh yes it is and your link does not say otherwise. It does say today’s geezer cohorts are more likely to divorce than those a generation back. The import of what it says is that someone born in 1952 is, ceteris paribus, more likely to file a divorce suit than someone born in 1925. That’s something that’s been well-understood for more than 40 years.
Re: Late-life divorce. It happens. I’ve seen too many. One was for a younger woman. A few were the drink or not letting go [Forgive All Injuries] of past hurts.
Maybe it comes after retirement, when it’s ‘mano a mano’, as it were, 24/7 .
Funny old saying, “I married her for better or worse, not for lunch.”
I’ve stared in the face that evil and managed to avoid the sin. I keep telling myself, “Grow up, clown.” And, pray constantly.
Re: Late-life divorce. It happens.
Lots of things ‘happen’. The question at hand is are they common. And, no, they’re not. Reich had a satisfactory position at Brandeis while his wife was at Northeastern in Boston. He moves all the way across the country to Berkeley to take a different job, because, as a member of the Democratic nomenklatura, he gets these offers. Ta ta dear.
(As an aside, I’ll note his capsule biographies are very careful to omit just what it was he studied at Dartmouth College, just telling you he graduated with honors. He’s received two appointments at schools of public policy even though there is zero evidence from his publications that he has any training in statistical analysis. All of his scholarly writing appears to be in law journals, which are not peer reviewed, and the articles which intersect the least with topical commentary were published during the period running from 1973 to 1985. He’s this generation’s John Kenneth Gailbraith, a well-connected newspaper columnist posing as a professor).
I think Art nailed it on his last comment. The JKG comparison is very apt.