Some are just mislead. My sister doesn't have a mean bone in her body. Yet is a "Women are the future" type of liberal.
"What I discovered is that the Modern Liberal looks back on 50,000 years, 100,000 years of human civilization, and knows only one thing for sure: that none of the ideas that mankind has come up with--none of the religions, none of the philosophies, none of the ideologies, none of the forms of government--have succeeded in creating a world devoid of war, poverty, crime, and injustice. So they're convinced that since all of these ideas of man have proved to be wrong, the real cause of war, poverty, crime, and injustice must be found--can only be found--in the attempt to be right.
If nobody ever thought they were right, what would we disagree about? If we didn't disagree, surely we wouldn't fight. If we didn't fight, of course we wouldn't go to war. Without war, there would be no poverty; without poverty, there would be no crime; without crime, there would be no injustice. It's a utopian vision, and all that's required to usher in this utopia is the rejection of all fact, reason, evidence, logic, truth, morality, and decency--all the tools that you and I use in our attempts to be better people, to make the world more right by trying to be right, by siding with right, by recognizing what is right and moving toward it."
The problem is, the average leftists are among the most self righteous and vindictive people on Earth. Anyway, what stops people who think they are absolutely right, from being jackasses, isn't jettisoning all common notions of right and wrong, ignoring the laws of man, God and nature......what's stops the self righteous from being jerks, is the virtue of humility. The left and right aren't lacking tons of people who think they're right about everything - what is lacking the ability to have charity for others who think differently and the humility to realize we don't know it all, even when we're sure we're absolutely right.
Some are just mislead. My sister doesn't have a mean bone in her body. Yet is a "Women are the future" type of liberal.
"What I discovered is that the Modern Liberal looks back on 50,000 years, 100,000 years of human civilization, and knows only one thing for sure: that none of the ideas that mankind has come up with--none of the religions, none of the philosophies, none of the ideologies, none of the forms of government--have succeeded in creating a world devoid of war, poverty, crime, and injustice. So they're convinced that since all of these ideas of man have proved to be wrong, the real cause of war, poverty, crime, and injustice must be found--can only be found--in the attempt to be right.
If nobody ever thought they were right, what would we disagree about? If we didn't disagree, surely we wouldn't fight. If we didn't fight, of course we wouldn't go to war. Without war, there would be no poverty; without poverty, there would be no crime; without crime, there would be no injustice. It's a utopian vision, and all that's required to usher in this utopia is the rejection of all fact, reason, evidence, logic, truth, morality, and decency--all the tools that you and I use in our attempts to be better people, to make the world more right by trying to be right, by siding with right, by recognizing what is right and moving toward it."
The problem is, the average leftists are among the most self righteous and vindictive people on Earth. Anyway, what stops people who think they are absolutely right, from being jackasses, isn't jettisoning all common notions of right and wrong, ignoring the laws of man, God and nature......what's stops the self righteous from being jerks, is the virtue of humility. The left and right aren't lacking tons of people who think they're right about everything - what is lacking the ability to have charity for others who think differently and the humility to realize we don't know it all, even when we're sure we're absolutely right.