I think the basic answer is that the progressive's entire sense of moral self-worth is tied up in the conviction that we should have a powerful government acting to achieve "social justice". Therefore, when we Conservatives challenge the assumptions behind that conviction, e.g. the idea that government has the right to redistribute incomes or that income inequality is a bad thing, the progressive feels that his moral status is being challenged as well, which in a way it is. He then reacts self-defensively, failing to see either where he has gone wrong or the great evil his ideas have always accomplished in practice. To admit that his ideas have destroyed Detroit would be to confess a lack of personal virtue, which is much harder than merely admitting to human error.
You can see why so few men of the Left had the courage to make the transition to political sanity as David Horowitz and Peter Collier did. It's like cutting yourself open with a scalpel to perform surgery - necessary, but extremely painful.
Isaiah 5:20 speaks of the woe that will come to those who say that 'good is bad and bad is good" and prefer darkness to light. In this difficult time in which we live, those who seek to establish their own rules of morality in order to control the actions of everyone else are doing just as Isaiah said. They will have "woe" and in the meantime, bring "woe" to others by closing their eyes and minds to the truth.
Often wondering "why" people do stupid, bad, illegal, immoral, or evil things, and coming to the realization that understanding the mindset of those who make these choices requires of me, the impossible. Therefore, I leave it to The One higher than all.
Often wondering "why" people do stupid, bad, illegal, immoral, or evil things, and coming to the realization that understanding the mindset of those who make these choices requires of me, the impossible. Therefore, I leave it to The One higher than all.
Ideologues can't separate fact from wishful thinking.
He's a typical liberal who will have to learn things the hard way at the expense of others.
If liberals had their way back in the day of mafia crime, the FBI would have had to keep a respectful distance, and prosecutors would never have been allowed to go after crime families and their sources of income, legal and illegal, which resulted in making America much safer with the conviction of many high-level mobsters
If liberals had their way back in the day of mafia crime, the FBI would have had to keep a respectful distance, and prosecutors would never have been allowed to go after crime families and their sources of income, legal and illegal, which resulted in making America much safer with the conviction of many high-level mobsters
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