Liberalism is full of conceits, none greater than its pretensions to intellect. Indeed, the very term that they so often apply to themselves - “progressive” - carries with it the intrinsic claim to being those who advance knowledge, who solve problems, who come up with innovative solutions. Anyone who’s ever dealt with liberals for very long knows that they love to pat themselves on the back for being the side that comes up with new ideas, while conservatives are the stupid ol’ sticks-in-the-mud who want to hang onto failed ideas from the past because of our inability to look ahead. Yet practical experience and common sense both tell us that this is diametrically the opposite of the way liberals actually are. If you think about it, what new ideas have liberals really come up with in, say, the last several decades? The answer to that is “none.” The answers they give to the “problems” we face today are the same ones they’ve always promoted – tax more, spend more, multiply social programs, restrict freedom more and more. Every idea they have is something that they’ve already been trying for almost a century before.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 10:17:39 +0000