One of the best things about reading a collection of Thomas Sowell‘s short essays and columns is running across a great sentence that captures the essence of an important truth.
One of my favorites from a previous collection was this one:
Economists may say that there is no such thing as a free lunch, but politicians get elected by promising free lunches.
Now, in the new book Dismantling America, we read:
Whoever called politics “the art of the possible” must have had a strange idea of what is possible or a strange idea of politics, where the impossible is one of the biggest vote-getters.
