Wonder how long her Pharma endorsement gig will last
I find it one of the most fascinating aspects of liberalism. It would be completely comical, if it were not so completely deadly, and mortally serious.
This, I think stems from another flaw of liberalism. To liberals, there is no past beyond that past they can hijack or use as a tool to serve their immediate ends.
Put another way, the past is merely a malleable tool to liberals, in contrast to the way many conservatives view the past, which serves to us as a testbed of ideas and actions, and that past we observe is used as a guide to our current and future situations.
I honestly do not believe that liberals view history or the past in that fashion. They simply can’t, how else could you explain the failure of communism, socialism, and the success of capitalism? More specifically, how on earth can they use history to buttress their views on taxes and the effect they have on economies?
Another great book by David Horowitz, an author who speaks with great authority on liberalism (because he was one) is “Unholy Alliance”, in which he talks about liberalism’s views on the past and present with respect to government, in which he states that there is no government past or present that committed liberals will support or respect, since all of them must be destroyed to get the utopia they seek to reach in the future.
Quite familiar with Horowitz, another one who got dragged down the hall early on in his career. His eyes were opened when his secretary, a mother of small children, was murdered by Black Panthers. He had been a darling the left as an editor of Ramparts magazine with the Berkeley crowd in the late 60s-early 70s. His rejection by the left (at his outrage over the murder and subsequent questioning of the commie dogma) changed him, and since then he has become one of conservatism's dogged generals, taking on one fight after another on campuses around the nation. Maybe there's hope for Paula.