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~ Who's Right / Who's Wrong ~
A regular feature, but worth repeating: I'm much more worried about the ones in danger of falling off the left corner than I am the ones in danger of falling off the right:
At a business conference this summer in Toronto Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class, told the Canadians again and again how wonderful they are--how open to new ideas, how tolerant, how diverse and therefore how potentially creative. Unlike the U.S., which is afflicted by divisiveness and the religious right, Canada is a model country. That was his story, at any rate.A few hours later I picked up a newspaper and got a different view. On the op-ed page a scientist was pleading for Canada to repeal its law against cloning human embryos for research. In tolerant, open-minded, diverse and creative Canada therapeutic cloning--defined as creating an in vitro embryo with the same chromosomes as any other individual--is a crime punishable by ten years in prison.
In the divisive, religiously addled U.S. a similar measure has failed repeatedly to become federal law...
There are many on the left I know, both on line and in person, who would nod their heads, blush a little, and start a sentence with "yes, but you see, I don't actually agree..."
Welcome to my world.
"Yes, but, again, you see, my side isn't currently in--"
Sorry, can't hear you over the screams from the horror of the 20th century. You know, the only time in history the left has been put completely in charge?
Unfair? Hey, the truth hurts. That's the advantage of being, you know, right.
The "no true Scot" fallacy is alive and well in the Dem/Left contingent.
Posted by: DensityDuck on October 3, 2005 09:31 AMYou know, the more I've learned about Adolf Hitler, the less he resembles any sort of conservative, and the more he resembles the far left. He was a vegitarian, an atheist, an intellectual, an artist, a revolutionary, and dreamed of a return to a past utopia when people (or Arayans, at any rate) were truly free. The classification of him, and other reactionaries, as conservative smacks of intellectual dishonesty.
The real horror of the Nazi Holocaust, I think, is not so much the genocide, but the fact that so many of our most brilliant and liberal minds of the 1930s and 1940s aided and abetted it. Hitler played the left for fools, and the only way the left could deal with their failure to see past his lies was to declare him a conservative after the fact.
If only Hitler was an isolated case, it would be easy to dismiss the left's actions as a simple mistake, but there are several other leftist revolutionaries redeclared right wing death beasts throughout the 20th century. Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, Castro... the instant the truth about any liberal utopian society c@mes to light, the liberals simply declare their former heroes as conservatives, and find a new liberal utopia to believe in.
I think this intellectual dishonesty is the primary reason every leftist cause leads to ruin. Conservatives may joke about always being right, but the liberals prove through their actions that they actually believe it, with eternally tragic results.