The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster – especially if some nations are not democracies.
In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.
You know those Navy SEALs, they weren’t Democrats and Republicans. They were just doing what was best for America. Wouldn’t that be a great country if all of you Americans were just like that? You followed orders, you marched in step and you followed my agenda.
Despite what you may have been taught about Indians or Africans or ancient Celts, poor people are terrible stewards of their environment. For instance, if my kid were starving to death, I would happily feed her fresh panda.
A rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others.
When activists say we need to move past the partisan divide, what they mean is: Shut up and get with my program. Have you ever heard anyone say, “We need to get past all of this partisan squabbling and name-calling. That’s why I’m going to abandon all my objections and agree with you”?
There is no – let me repeat – no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes.
In Europe and America alike, voters increasingly recognize that the benefits of the green revolution aren’t worth the costs, particularly when the revolutionaries don’t have a clue what they’re doing.
Public unions are the country’s foremost advocates for increased taxes at all levels of government.
The progressive notion of the state as a loving, caring parent is becoming a bipartisan affair.
John Kerry is a sphincter. Okay, that’s a bit juvenile.
Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.
We’re all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young.
The Founders understood that democracy was important, but if you didn’t filter it through a republican system you’d be just as likely to end up with a tyranny of the majority as you would with a healthy society. Don’t worry, I won’t quote the Federalist Papers, but trust me, it’s in there.
Yes, I know liberals are more empirical because Jonathan Chait says they are, but my empirical studies of liberal empiricism keep spitting out contradictory findings.
I like vengeance as much as the next guy, if the next guy likes vengeance a whole lot...
Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles don’t matter.
And, of course, liberals see no problem with using the government to impose their cultural beliefs on others; they just won’t admit that’s what they’re doing.
Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.
And in the minds of progressives you are free to live anyway you want so long as it’s progressive.