Ted Kennedy and the KGB

Frontpagemagazine ^ | July 12, 2017 | Jamie Glazov

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I am skeptical about government, but am also skeptical the society will work together harmoniously to be a blessing…

. . . and you are right. Right to be skeptical, both about government and society.

and liberals are not ^{at all} skeptical about government, but are also not skeptical that society will work together harmoniously to be a blessing.

Here I disagree, strongly. That would imply that liberals do not claim that society must be forced to be more of a blessing to women/blacks/hispanics ^{everyone but white men} than it otherwise would be. And I don’t think that you believe that for an instant.

Doesn't seem inversely related . .

Paine says to me that if you think society is perfect (naïveté toward society, if you will) you will want no government whatever. But the more you have to fear/be skeptical of society or portions thereof, the more government you will think justified. And the limiting case of that is, I submit, cynicism toward society tending to justify tyranny.

As you know, I see journalism’s claims (now muted, but IMHO always present) of objectivity clashing with journalism’s self-knowledge that “If it bleeds, it leads.” Journalism is always finding something negative about society, journalism knows that about itself - and yet it claims to be objective. The clear implication is that negativity toward society is objectivity. And I put it to you that any such claim is the very definition of cynicism.

Thus we see journalism treating society cynically, incessantly implying that “there oughta be a law” - and the result is that journalists and Democrat politicians are politically indistinguishable.

Does that make sense?