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To: Jacquerie
Thank you for your comment.

As David Horowitz (who knows their very souls) wrote in June 2000: "...For these self-appointed social redeemers, the goal—"social justice"—is not about rectifying particular injustices, which would be practical and modest, and therefore conservative. Their crusade is about rectifying injustice in the very order of things. "Social Justice" for them is about a world reborn, a world in which prejudice and violence are absent, in which everyone is equal and equally advantaged and without fundamentally conflicting desires. It is a world that could only come into being through a re-structuring of human nature and of society itself.

Even though they are too prudent and self-protective to name this future anymore, the post-Communist left still passionately believes it possible. But it is a world that has never existed and never will. Moreover, as the gulags and graveyards of the last century attest, to attempt the impossible is to invite the catastrophic in the world we know."....

9 posted on 03/16/2015 3:52:48 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Very good. Horowitz is a treasure.

I would only point out that those stupid, slave owning, rich white guys of 1787 designed a system of government that recognized and dealt with man's nature. It is the approach that best ensures national happiness and wealth.

The result of every attempt to create the “New Man,” whether from a secular (communism) or religious (islam) standpoint, is indescribable horror.

15 posted on 03/16/2015 4:06:39 AM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; Jacquerie
I love the comments from both of you as both comments have a central theme where men suppose they can rise above their humanity to become god-like and re-shape the world to "the way it should be." Jacquerie's later comment on how the rich slave-holders of 1787 got it so right in allowing for human nature in their design for self-government shows the hubris of the latter-day pretenders saying it could be done better "if only"...and then they show themselves out to be the petty tyrant that lives in every man. It's really the story of Satan attempting to replace God played out on the human stage.

No mention of excessive taxation and crippling regulation

Those issues are the great unmentionables of that crew because they know them to be the levers that empower any hope they have of overcoming the 1787 structure that they rage against. "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"

20 posted on 03/16/2015 4:29:10 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
"Social Justice" for them is about a world reborn, a world in which prejudice and violence are absent, in which everyone is equal and equally advantaged and without fundamentally conflicting desires. It is a world that could only come into being through a re-structuring of human nature and of society itself.

To rid social intercourse of prejudice and violence the state becomes the sole source of prejudice and violence. By turning the entire population against the state the people are united in a singular objective to rid themselves of their oppressor.

22 posted on 03/16/2015 4:34:03 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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