Posted on 05/22/2017 1:46:45 AM PDT by Jacquerie
Over the course of my life I watched the Left evolve from a counter-culture phenomena into authoritarians. Along their journey, they necessarily deny self-evident truths.
When I was a kid, the Left engaged in discourse. I watched them on William F. Buckley’s Firing Line. All of the big libs showed up to engage Mr. Conservative. I learned that while groundless opinions are eventually destroyed, rational arguments and judgments are confirmed over time. I believed that for most of my life. Today, I’m not as sure.
In a new high school course on the Constitution during my junior year (1971), I remember disappointment when I found it dealt with scotus opinions on the Constitution rather than the leading lights of the Framing era. Even back then, and without knowing, I thirsted for first principles. Nonetheless, I took the class. I followed and understood the logic of 18th and 19th century scotus decisions as well as any high school kid could, . . . until the class arrived at the New Deal. There, despite my best efforts, and those of my teacher, I couldn’t get my mind around the court’s expansion of the Constitution’s commerce clause. I thought, “gosh, these judges are a lot smarter than me.”
After high school, many of my college-age peers began to discount America. They felt that no culture could be better than another. Like them, I was taught that all things were relative, yet I couldn’t let go of Mr. Buckley’s appeal to rationality, to truths.
I was in my mid-twenties before I figured out a couple of things. First, my Lefty high school teacher had just completed her first year of law school, and needed funds to continue.
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Having faith in truth is indeed a noble position to hold.
However, the reality is that perceptions trump truth.
Perceptions do not change the truth but they can disguise and even hide the truth. The mainstream media is one example of what I speak.
Never underestimate the power of misinformed people in large groups.
The nonstop propaganda barrage is just too much for some people to walk against. They choose the easy way out and quit believing their own lying eyes. Brainwashing is a real thing.
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