The Rats make re-elect their rotten apples.
Too bad. Craig did a lot of good.
“The Pubbies throw out their rotten apples. The Rats make re-elect their rotten apples.” ~ BenLurkin
They are NAILED at these two links:
Dr. Sanity Saturday, September 01, 2007
THERE’S HYPOCRISY; AND THEN THERE’S META-HYPOCRISY
http://drsanity.blogspot.com/
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Gagdad Saturday, September 01, 2007
Let’s Play Who’s the Victim?!
http://onecosmos.blogspot.com/
One of the appeals of leftism is that you can never be called a hypocrite. That is, if you have no standards, then there is no standard by which to judge you.
Why then are leftists so incredibly, gleefully judgmental? Because, as Polanyi http://www.amazon.com/Everyman-Revived-Common-Michael-Polanyi/dp/0802840795 pointed out, one of the defining characteristics of leftism is the subversion of traditional morality.
But since you cannot eliminate the moral impulse, it ends up becoming unhinged, that is, uncontained by any transcendent moral boundaries. Therefore, the moral impulse “fuses,” as it were, with what is below instead of what is above, and becomes a dangerous vehicle of the most base passions. This is why leftism is associated with the greatest mass murderers of all time — Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, et al.
In a lengthy essay entitled Hitler Was a Socialist, http://jonjayray.tripod.com/hitler.html John J. Ray makes reference to the notoriously “slippery standards”of the left, writing that they “have no fixed principles. If a principle suits their rhetorical needs of today they will proclaim their loyalty to it — and then cheerfully adopt the opposite principle tomorrow if that happens to suit the rhetorical needs of that day.”
Regarding the absence of fixed principles, I can remember on many occasions hearing liberals insist that Saddam was “our creation,” and that, like the Shah of Iran or Marcos in the Philipines, we were morally responsible for him.
If true — which it wasn’t — then it would follow that we would be responsible for removing him and “restoring” freedom.
Since that is exactly what President Bush did, the left had to fabricate ulterior motives for the liberation of Iraq — Haliburton, big oil, imposing theocracy in America, etc.
Because of the traumatic cognitive dissonance of President Bush putting their vacant ideals into action, the left had to detach from reality and enter a parallel looniverse of political discourse, in which Bush was and is condemned on wholly fantasized grounds. This is what I mean about the fusing of the moral impulse with the unconscious “primary process,” the latter of which is rooted in wish fulfillment rather than the dictates of reality.
In a passage that encapsulates volumes that could be written about the left, Ray discusses the deep structure of leftism, which is always the same, even while the surface content changes from era to era, year to year, day to day, and even moment to moment (as anyone knows who has tried to engage in rational debate with a leftist — you can’t do so, because the rhetorical ground keeps shifting under your feet). Like the borderline personality, they possess a kind of “stable instability” that is their only enduring structure: ..” [snip] Click link to continue:http://onecosmos.blogspot.com/