Posted on 12/21/2002 10:02:11 AM PST by bdeaner
. . . one strain of American liberalism has gone awry when its celebration of equality and its distrust of power are taken to extremes. Liberalism also presumes a society in which equality and liberty have been established and disruption controlled through the use of reason. So when force becomes necessary, it is a source of discomfort, because it implies the failure of reason and the curtailment of liberty.
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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.
. . . 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 . . .
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