April 29, 2004

Unwanted analysis

I love it when some putative ex-liberal tries to explain the liberal "program" to his new-found friends.

The first thing you must realize is that liberals have a program. They are visionaries. They envision a world in which everyone controls the same amount of resources. Nobody is born to privilege or disadvantage; or, if anyone is, it is swiftly neutralized by the state.

He engages in psychoanalysis without a license: "Liberals, unlike conservatives, are zealous." (My emphasis) That would explain how liberals persuaded President Bush that his tax cuts needed to be broadly applied, I suppose. And he concludes:

Without power, their egalitarianism is mere fantasy. But conservatives should be careful not to dismiss it as such, for liberals have demonstrated that they will do whatever it takes to secure and retain power. We saw it in the case of Robert Bork. We saw it in the case of Bill Clinton. We see it in the case of war in Iraq. To the liberal, the end justifies the means. Take it from me, a former liberal.
Right. That's why we've now learned that the current Administration was hell-bent to go to war in Iraq, to the point of lying to Congress and the American people. Remember Wolfowitz's remark about the existence of WMD's being "the one reason everyone could agree on"? If that's not an example of ends justifying means...

Well now; isn't it fun to read such material from such a well-placed man? The author "is Associate Professor of Philosophy at The University of Texas at Arlington, where he teaches courses in Logic, Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, and Philosophy of Law." So much for the gibberish about conservatives being unwelcome in academia.

Lest you think I ordinarily cruise Tech Central Station, I want to say that I get their E-letter unsolicited, and it's like a car crash; I have to go look once in a while.

Posted by Linkmeister at April 29, 2004 11:55 AM
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