"Frontpage editors are pleased to announce the winner of our essay contest launched on April 5, 2013: “Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out.”
The winner of the $1,000 first-place prize is N. A. Halkides. Mr. Halkides is a mathematician, systems analyst and freelance writer living in the greater Chicago metropolitan area. His essay, entitled Inside the Progressive Mind, is below.
Frontpage would also like to applaud two runners-up in the competition: Oleg Atbashian and Daniel Greenfield. Each of them will receive $500 for winning second-place and their essays will run consecutively in our following two issues.
Congratulations N.A. Halkides, Oleg Atbashian and Daniel Greenfield!"
Libertarian - Everybody is perfect
Conservative - Nobody is perfect
Liberal - Everybody can be made to be perfect
BRILLIANT WRITING!!!!
Bloggers take note: Inflammatory, brilliant and accurate Thesis in the first two sentences.
Spectacular.
This is the standard of engaging writing to which people should aspire.
Don’t drivel! Hit ‘em hard, so they’ll know what you mena, and keep reading.
Actually there are two possibilities. There is either a totalitarian screaming to get out or a conservative trying to escape.
After all, look at David Horowitz himself. His inner conservative managed to escape its dyed in the wool communist shell.
Progressive is just rebranding communist & marxist
Somebody ping our "FR word of the day" guy!
One size doesn’t fit all. It’s a spectrum that applies to both right and left.
There are the liberal elite who don’t care about power over others, they already have that. They want to control the lives of the little people so they don’t consume too much, or pollute too much and end up fouling up the elite’s world.
Then there are the foot soldiers who desperately hope for shared misery. They are willing to accept any regulation, provided it applies to all, so that we’re “all the same”.
BTTT
I’m sure that drawing is supposed to be generic, but I wish it generically looked a little more like Bloomberg than Al Haig.
An excellent rationale for not giving Progressives an in, as they will certainly take a mile.
>> pestiferous
I learned a new word! I like it. It’ll be useful, here and elsewhere.
That explains why the writing is so good. Thank for posting this.
Let me reiterate that once government is permitted to use force at all in a given matter, any degree of force is allowed.
That's absurd. If that were the case that friendly corner traffic cop would have morphed into a body-armor-wearing monster in a black uniform using heavy infantry weapons and riding armored vehicles by now. And we know that's not...oh, wait.
This is the problem with altruism. If altruism is believed to be man's prime virtue, then the next step is the belief that if some are not altruistic then they are bad people because they are depriving others of what they must provide them. Then, the final step is the belief that those non-altruistic people need to be forced to be altruistic.
Ping!!!
Good essay. Congrats to the winners!
“(Inside Every Liberal Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out)”
Nah.
Every liberal is a Progressive scu*bag.
IMHO
To a liberal, freedom is slavery..