It’s not Franklin Roosevelt’s or John Kennedy’s liberalism. Second, liberalism today is not the liberalism of yesteryear. Mistaking as they do their ideology for morality, they see no reason to shun the most cynical of political tactics to get their way. Science is treated as the private preserve of a certain ideology, not to mention a political weapon to justify preferred policy outcomes. Believing they already know the answers to all questions, liberals view politics and governing as mopping up operations.Īcademic research is about proving a point rather than discovering the truth. It is about power-as in who has it and who doesn’t. Whether you are politician dispensing government benefits or the citizen receiving them, liberalism hides the self-interest and sometimes even greed that motivate people.īut the devolution of liberalism into something now openly illiberal has causes far more complex than these familiar explanations provide.įor one thing, liberalism is no longer mainly about ideas. A lot of people in and out of government benefit. No doubt among the fevered minions of liberal activists there are people with, shall we say, psychological issues, but that doesn’t explain why so many otherwise reasonable people are so beholden to liberalism as an ideology. Not all liberals are bad people, any more than all conservatives are angels. The easy answer would be “they are all bad people.” But frankly that’s a cop-out. Their mindset is the very definition of closed-mindedness. They publicly shame people for the slightest deviation from liberal orthodoxy.įor them everything from science to the law is “settled” once they get into power. They embrace activists who shut down speakers. Why have liberals become so intolerant? They think nothing of denying someone as prominent as former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from speaking on a college campus.
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