The Sham Superiority of Liberalism
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For a philosophy without principles, it is awfully moralistic.
The philosophy of our modern-day pillagers is at once intensely moralistic and utterly amoral. They lecture the nation on the requirements of “justice” even as they steal or destroy property that doesn’t belong to them. They decry the moral standards of the past while committing the most grotesque sins in the present. They blast the character of historical figures and tear their statues down while building monuments to Margaret Sanger and other monstrous modern figures.
The nihilistic arrogance of it all is staggering. Yet craven pols watch the destructive unfolding without a peep. They confer upon the mob a moral authority it doesn’t possess. The same pols and academics who tell us that all moral standards are relative accept the moral judgments of the mob without question.
A generation as morally careless as this one lacks any standing to judge historical figures.
The left-wing totalitarianism toward which the mob is headed will eclipse the injustices of the past. Liberals used to like to quote Heinrich Heine’s line, “Where one burns books, one will — in the end — burn people.” You don’t hear them quoting that anymore, as their mobs burn statues, censor books, and destroy the livelihoods of those who dare deviate, even in the most minor of ways, from the revolution’s imperatives.
Has a single prominent liberal condemned ….?
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