The Left is Slipping Into Terminal Irrelevance
Jul 2, 2018 11:04:00 #
Great article, if I do say so myself. Please read it and let me know what you think. https://amgreatness.com/2018/07/01/the-left-is-slipping-into-terminal-irrelevance/
Jul 2, 2018 11:26:36 #
I think the author is spot on and this should be published everywhere. I'm sending it on. Mike
fullspinzoo wrote:
Great article, if I do say so myself. Please read it and let me know what you think. https://amgreatness.com/2018/07/01/the-left-is-slipping-into-terminal-irrelevance/
Jul 2, 2018 11:27:40 #
teabag09 wrote:
I think the author is spot on and this should be published everywhere. I'm sending it on. Mike
Hey, I agree. thanks for doing that, Mike!!!!
Jul 2, 2018 12:45:26 #
fullspinzoo wrote:
Great article, if I do say so myself. Please read it and let me know what you think. https://amgreatness.com/2018/07/01/the-left-is-slipping-into-terminal-irrelevance/
Great insights. These two paragraphs sum up the left as it is today.
"And this brings me to a curious fact about contemporary leftism. It used to be that the defining virtue for liberals was tolerance. Their god was the J. S. Mill ofOn Liberty. Let people alone to do what they like so long as they do not interfere with others while doing it. That, with some qualifications, is the doctrine. There are, to be sure, problems with Mill’s gospel of tolerance, most penetratingly analyzed by Mill’s great critic, James Fitzjames Stephen, in his neglected classic Liberty, Fraternity, E******y. “Complete moral tolerance,” Stephen observed, “is possible only when men have become completely indifferent to each other—that is to say, when society is at an end.”
But what we’re seeing today is the rise of disabused, erstwhile liberals who wrap themselves in the sanctimoniousness of their former suasions while preaching the dogma of programmatic intolerance. There are no liberals on the Left these days, only aspiring totalitarians. The jarring discrepancy between their moral pretensions, on the one hand, and their brutal pronunciamentos and actions, on the other, is yet another reason that their crusade for intolerance is likely to redound against them like an inept soccer player who scores an “own goal” against his own team."
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