Sunday, June 14, 2015

Somebody Say Amen!

Jonah Goldberg succinctly lays out the problem with liberalism/progressivism:

"The progressive vision sees all of mankind as clay to be molded, sheep to be herded, a third-grade diorama to be diorama’d. There are no safe harbors from politics because the personal is political.

The problem with saying “the personal is political” is twofold: You politicize what is personal (“Everyone must celebrate my lifestyle!”) and you personalize the political (“Your opposition to the minimum wage hurts my feelings!”).

This is how you un-think yourself out of a civilization; When politics becomes a fashion choice and fashion becomes political. If you wear your politics on your sleeve, it usually means you don’t keep them in your brain where they belong
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A conservative knows that there is more to life than politics; a liberal/progressive knows no such bounds. Father forgive them for most of them know not what they do. The other couple of percent - well let me move over there before you get down to business. 

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