[College Repub]

Regarding the title...Comeon...there's a difference between being a dumbass baffoon and being evil!

[cksharks]

Maybe in your eyes, but not mine. Ann is right on.

[goodieD]

one can contribute to evil just by being a "dumbass baffoon". As the liberals like to say, 'if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem'.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

In 1994 The Road to Serfdom was reprinted . . . the original printing was in 1944. Its author emphasized that history did not exactly repeat itself, and we had a long way to go--but Britain and the US were in 1944 philosophically in a stunningly similar place to where Germany had been a generation earlier. All happy about socialism . . .

The main thesis of the book is that National Socialism was indeed socialism, indeed of the left. Fascism and Nazisim were simply routine splitoffs which are inevitable (Hayek asserted) among socialists. Based on the public knowledge of the Soviet Gulag before WWII, Hayek predicted that very ugly things would come to light after the fall of the Nazis. You may perhaps agree that he was right.

Given that I keep seeing similarities between the Palestinians and the Nazis, and given that Nazis were socialists and so are "liberals", the connection between "liberalism" and terrorism may just turn out to be less tenuous than you suppose.

[tomkat]

see #8.

then expand your knowledge by reading The Road to Serfdom.

if that doesn't do it, Atlas Shrugged might be the 2x4 upside the head
that'll help you grasp just how slippery the 'liberal' slope really is ...

[ /head pats from an old guy ]

[1tin_soldier]

The evil is real....the dumbassed buffoonery is to hide the fact, both to themselves and to others, that they are indeed evil.

[elephantlips]

"Stupid is as stupid does." Forrest Gump If you're stupid and you allow evil to take place through your stupidity the end result is the same as an evil person committing that same deed. Robert Ringer's "Winning through Intimidation" has a similar example.

[Dan Day]

Regarding the title...Comeon...there's a difference between being a dumbass baffoon and being evil!

Read the last two paragraphs again.

[polemikos]

there's a difference between being a dumbass baffoon and being evil!

Apparently you're unaware of the banality of much evil.

[Endeavor]

You being the former, I suppose.