A government too busy imposing its views on those who don’t share them”. The Left has always been comfortable with “imposing its views” on populations, large proportions of which do not share them, because it genuinely believes that those views represent the only possible social good: they are not simply one side of an argument in which your opponents can be seen as conscientious and well-meaning (even if mistaken). Left-liberal ideology is based on the notion that its program is the face of the future. Those ordinary people who cannot see the light, because they have been deceived by the wicked and self-serving (“class enemies” in the original Marxist formulation) who exploit their ignorance and trick them into voting or agitating against their own true interests, must have this righteous vision imposed upon them for their own good. It is this doctrine of inevitability that puts Left-wing politics in a realm of its own and justifies its casual attitude to democracy: if you resist, you are pitting yourself against the future. You must realize your error. If you don’t, you may justifiably be dismissed as irrelevant (or worse). Those who refuse to accept the righteous path or who attempt to obstruct it can be assumed to be deliberately malign. Note the similarity here to arguments now being made in Britain by social liberals who insist that anyone who does not accept their prospectus must be ruled out of public discourse.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 16:49:28 +0000
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