Killer liberals

Mpls (red)Star Tribune (online) / Scripps Howard News Service ^ | 6/17/02 | Jay Ambrose

[Valin]

Sometimes, when liberals have sufficiently aggravated me with their morally superior tone, I threaten to write a book, and what I say I am going to call it is, "Killer Liberals." You'll know better where I'm coming from if I explain where I got the idea for the title. It's from "The Killer Angels," a marvelous 1974 novel about the Battle of Gettysburg by Michael Shaara.

[William Terrell]

. . .and conservatives have also made their indefensible errors of commission and omission, sometimes even abetting the unwise liberals in their legislative delusions.

The war on drugs is a premier example.

[fporretto]

We all tend to set aside our rationality about things that evoke our strong sympathy or our strong revulsion, William. The War on Drugs is one such. Still, conservatives are in the majority in calling for a re-examination of drug prohibition; there are very few liberals in the ranks of the decriminalization movement.

Conservatives have the edge over liberals in that, generally, they're willing to assess evidence that contradicts their beliefs in candor and honesty. Not all, but most.

Liberals' beliefs are more robustly protected by the "fact-proof screen" (Eric Hoffer), because their beliefs tend to be a consequence of a vision of themselves as more moral and caring than those who disagree with them: to use Thomas Sowell's phrase, "a vision of differential rectitude." Therefore, to admit that they were wrong involves lowering themselves from an exalted moral plane to equality (or worse) with the rest of us, which is for many of them unthinkable, a debasement not to be borne.

There's no cure yet... but there is hope.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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[AUsome Joy]

Killer Angels was one of my favorite books. The movie "Gettysburg" (1993) was based on that book.

Thanks for posting this article. It has some really good examples of liberalism and its "do-good" mentality causing more harm than good.

[William Terrell]

There's no cure yet... but there is hope.

I hope you're right.

[J. L. Chamberlain]

Killer Angel bump!

J

[MJemison]

The Killer Angels

An excellent read. Breathes life into tragic and heroic historic figures.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Or, adopting a give away project from the Libs and doing 2/3rds, as if to say we "saved" money.

[Teacher317]

Sometimes, when liberals have sufficiently aggravated me with their morally superior tone, I threaten to write a book, and what I say I am going to call it is, "Killer Liberals."

Do it! I'd buy that book!

[Toddsterpatriot]

You mean good intentions don't mean more than results?