Posted on 12/20/2008 12:48:08 PM PST by SMCC1
"The consensus forming in anticipation of Barack Obama’s ascendancy is that, with apologies to Code Pink, pragmatism is the new black. The president-elect himself has encouraged this vogue, both explicitly in his rhetoric and implicitly in his recent cabinet appointments. It remains to be seen whether a substantive departure from doctrinaire liberalism will follow, but in the meantime we suffer from an annoying side effect: Suddenly every third person is walking around pronouncing himself a pragmatist and sneering smugly at “ideology,” as if the distinction were something more than empty rhetoric...."
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
I’ve seen a lot of libtards “sneering smugly” lately...
No "probably" about it. The left is using the word "pragmatism" as a euphemism for their moral relativism. That is as steeped in ideology as you can get.
Excellent article. I hope to see more from this author.
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