Posted on 11/09/2014 3:05:20 PM PST by TBP
Compassion creates a co-dependency between the empathizers and the empathizees: Liberalism is an “alliance of experts and victims,” in the words of Harvard’s Harvey Mansfield.
To top that up to 51% of the voters, says Voegeli, liberals argue that “those who do not recognize the expertise of the experts are stupid, preferring ignorance, and those who do not recognize the victimhood of the victims are wicked, lacking compassion.”
If the empathizees ever disappeared (by, say, having their miseries extinguished) then the empathizers would lose their purpose, the soothing soul balm of caring.
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Excellent article.
The bottom line of liberalism is that it is dependent upon the total elimination of rights.
To hide this, they scream “human rights,” by which they do not mean actual rights - rather, they mean dictatorial government authority being conducted at a certain statistical level of non-violence.
And to hide this fundamental reality, they flip it to secondary status while claiming it will result in Every Good Thing. As a result, the liberal hordes swallow it hook, line and sinker.
“We have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities. Once it’s everyone’s responsibility and not just the household’s, then we start making better investments.”Au contraire. If it’s “everybody’s" responsibility it is nobody’s responsibility.
Ever hear of “the tragedy of the commons”?
Insightful..
I really think liberals are not compassionate at all...they are simply very lazy...
Liberals want the government to take care of everybody...so they don’t have to.
The next liberal I encounter with genuine compassion for anyone else will be the first.
This was an amazing and insightful article. So sad to see so few replies. I hope many more Freepers read it than posted.
Thanks.
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