Tinker
The people calling themselves progressive liberal Democrats don't seem to know just what they are talking about. Because what they are saying just sounds like their way or the highway. A political point of view offer that we can't refuse?
I
thought that liberal people believed in:
"Liberals believe in government action to achieve equal opportunity and equality for all. It is the duty of the government to alleviate social ills and to protect civil liberties and individual and human rights. Believe the role of the government should be to guarantee that no one is in need. Liberal policies generally emphasize the need for the government to solve problems."
"Liberals believe in government action to achieve equal opportunity and equality for all. It is the duty of the government to alleviate social ills and to protect civil liberties and individual and human rights. Believe the role of the government should be to guarantee that no one is in need. Liberal policies generally emphasize the need for the government to solve problems."
But instead of that we keep getting more and more of the Ivy
League elitist telling everyone else where to get off at?
Charles
Krauthammer: Thought police on patrol
Charles Krauthammer Opinion writer
Charles Krauthammer writes a weekly political column that
runs on Fridays.
April 10
Two months ago, a petition
bearing more than 110,000 signatures was delivered to The Post,
demanding a ban on any article questioning global warming. The petition arrived
the day before publication of my column, which consisted of precisely that
heresy.
The column ran as usual. But I was gratified by the show of
intolerance because it perfectly
illustrated my argument that the left is entering a new phase of
ideological agitation — no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate
altogether, banishing from public discourse any and all opposition.
The proper word for that attitude is totalitarian. It
declares certain controversies over and visits serious consequences — from
social ostracism to vocational defenestration — upon those who refuse to be
silenced.
Sometimes the word comes from on high, as when the president
of the United States declares the science of global warming to be
“settled.” Anyone who disagrees is then branded “anti-science.” And better
still, a “denier” — a brilliantly chosen calumny meant to impute to the climate
skeptic the opprobrium normally reserved for the hatemongers and crackpots who
deny the Holocaust.
Then last week, another outbreak. The newest closing of the
leftist mind is on gay marriage. Just as the science of global warming is
settled, so, it seems, are the moral and philosophical merits of gay marriage.
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