Populist Leftism: Our Social Cancer
There are many great quotes, here are a few:
Quite simply, I believe that modern Populist Leftism (which for convenience, I will refer to as PL) will destroy our civil society, and replace it with totalitarianism. Indeed, I believe that PL must lead inexorably to totalitarianism by its very nature, because the philosophical principles upon which it is based are antithetical to both self-government and personal liberty.
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PL policies are simply not predicated on rational evidence or historical experience, but rather on ideological suppositions that are immune from proof. In another context, we would refer to such ideological suppositions as a "religion".
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The second danger inherent in the ideology of PL is the concept of government it promotes. Rather than conceiving of government as a means of protecting persons and their property from the predations of another, the PL concept defines government as a tool for perfecting humanity. The PL assumes that human nature is perfectible, and that the power of government can be harnessed to achieve this perfectibility. Rather than taking a pessimistic view of human nature, PL is utopian. By definition, this means that, for the PL, the power of government is not best used in preventing you from doing evil, but requiring you to do good. There is a vast difference between those two concepts. Under such a concept, the power of government is limitless as a practical matter, which invites the most egregious abuse.
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We graduate children from high school who are functionally illiterate, but who know beyond doubt that animals have "rights", and that capitalism destroys the environment. One hundred years ago, the average high school graduate spoke and wrote in English, Greek, Latin and probably German, knew algebra and trigonometry, and would have laughed uproariously at the very thought that he had a moral imperative to become a vegan.
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