Calling Evil By Its' Name

Renew America ^ | Apr. 8, 2011 | Linda Kimball

[spirited irish]

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[spirited irish]

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[central_va]

Condensed version: Leftists are fascists.

[muir_redwoods]

Umm, ok but from my perspective the left is just a bunch of folks who want my money without working for it. Lazy and rude.

You know, it is possible to over think these things.

[upchuck]

Nice article. A little overdone perhaps.

Thanks for posting all of it.

[Berlin_Freeper]

I used to think the Left was mentally ill based on be so wrong on so many things.

But from years of watching them I have to say they are mentally evil. Because being so consistently wrong about almost everything under the Sun, can only be described as evil.

[sneakers]

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[esquirette]

Here’s another there-is-no-apostrophe-in-its-when-it’s-possessive ping.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

...a sympathetic mainstream media suppresses and/or whitewashes the former type of fantasy while treating the latter as if it reflects reality.

Sympathetic, my ass! Complicit is closer to the truth!

[Rumplemeyer]

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[Wpin]

Well written, the truth rings out in her words. We must understand we are literally fighting evil...these people are the same people who were the Communists, the Nazi’s, the slave owners, etc.

[DarthVader]

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[reaganator]

The free market capitalist economy has freed more people from drudgery, disease and poverty than any other economic system in the history of mankind.

The liberal socialist Democrats are deliberately attempting to destroy the American economy. If they were not, what would they have done differently if they were?

Is this not EVIL?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The Evil as Sophists

Though the evil view themselves as faultless, in reality their conscience is depraved, and a depraved conscience is the most destructive force in political, social, economic, and cultural life. This is because though the intellect remains intact, reason is warped and peculiarly inverted, thus useless for pursuit of the good, the just and the true. In short, guided by a depraved conscience, reason is used in pursuit of the preservation of self-image at any cost. This is sophistry.

In a penetrating analysis of sophistry, J. Budziszewski observes that the sophists' view of reality is paradoxical because it ultimately denies reality. Sophists are shock troopers of evil says Budziszewski, and according to their satanically-inverted view of reality:

"Man is the measure of all things, but man has no fixed nature. Man measures all things by his words, but words have no fixed meanings. Language is not an instrument for finding truth, but for changing it. Those who can master it, master all. It is a good creed for rogues, and commends itself to tyrants in every age." (What We Can't Not Know, Budziszewski, p. 167)

sophist

1542, earlier sophister (c.1380), from L. sophista, sophistes, from Gk. sophistes, from sophizesthai "to become wise or learned," from sophos "wise, clever," of unknown origin. Gk. sophistes came to mean "one who gives intellectual instruction for pay," and, contrasted with "philosopher," it became a term of contempt. Ancient sophists were famous for their clever, specious arguments.

philosopher

O.E. philosophe, from L. philosophus, from Gk. philosophos "philosopher," lit. "lover of wisdom," from philos "loving" + sophos "wise, a sage."

"Pythagoras was the first who called himself philosophos, instead of sophos, 'wise man,' since this latter term was suggestive of immodesty." [Klein]

[Mr Ramsbotham]

They’re always just one genocide away from Utopia.

[rhombus]

A little overdone perhaps.

Nothing like being hyperbolic about hyperbolic people. ;-)

[rhombus]

A little overdone perhaps.

Nothing like being hyperbolic about hyperbolic people. ;-)

[Ozone34]

Wow! I had not until now encountered Linda Kimball’s writings before. After a brief review of her published opus, all I can say is that any gal who references J. Budziszewski, Eric Voegelin and Wolfgang Smith is my kind of gal! (Is she related to Roger Kimball?)

[Tribune7]

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