Left Has Hard Time in Era of Terrorism

New York Times ^ | 12/21/02 | Edward Rothstein

[avg_freeper]

He imagined that if a group of people were designing a just society without knowing what their place in that society would be, behind that "veil of ignorance" they would make sure that the society would be most fair to its least privileged members because that is who they might end up being.

Liberals do envision their selves entrusted as the designers of our society.

They quickly realize that their skills will not be in great demand from the rest of us though. There are very few want-ads for "society builders".

So they do their best to engineer a society that obliges the largest number of people to their whims. Liberals become the distributors of cardboard boxes for the homeless, unemployment for the unemployed, and tax-breaks for the non tax payers.

Enslaving us while adding to the ranks of the worlds "least privileged members" year after year.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

if a group of people were designing a just society without knowing what their place in that society would be, behind that "veil of ignorance" they would make sure that the society would be most fair to its least privileged members because that is who they might end up being.

. . . or else they would redefine "priviledge" as rights with corresponding responsibilities.

If my "priviledge" is only my bank account, I have the responsibility to earn, save, invest. That is fairness to the least priveledged, in that it allows them the fruit of their own diligence.

That's why conservatism is compasion . . .

[guitfiddlist]

Somebody once said "The facts of life are conservative". And that is the most direct attack upon Liberals you can make. Do these hypocrites lock their homes and cars when they leave? Why? Don't they trust people? Do they walk down the street passing out THEIR bucks to screaming, urine-encrusted homeless drunks? No way. Just look at the so-called "Progressives" in San Francisco absorbing the inevitable results of their own pig ignorance. They're not so bloody "progressive" when it comes to their own personal worlds.

Today's liberalism or "progressivism" - or whatever silly-assed new word they use to avoid the stigma attached to the failure of the same Dimwit philosophy - cannot survive without a pathologically delusional hypocrisy.