The Voting Rights Act, Stuck in the Past
5th March 2013
George Will looks at how reactionary ‘progressives’ actually are.
Progressives are remarkably uninterested in progress. Social Security is 78 years old, and myriad social improvements have added 17?years to life expectancy since 1935, yet progressives insist the program remain frozen, like a fly in amber. Medicare is 48 years old, and the competence and role of medicine have been transformed since 1965, yet progressives cling to Medicare “as we know it.” And they say that the Voting Rights Act, another 48-year-old, must remain unchanged, despite dramatic improvements in race relations.