This does not mean that there are not people who self-define as “liberals” who can be reasoned with. These people plainly exist.
Goodness is taking pleasure in the success and well being of others. Evil is taking pleasure in their failures and misery.
No person who claims to be good, who claims to want what is best for
his or her fellow humans, can fail on an enduring basis to regularly
examine his own first assumptions, and fail to care about the actual
outcomes of his actions.
No idea can be beyond scrutiny. Ideas which have merit will always
become stronger in the sunlight, and those which are wrong, will more
easily be cast away once retrieved from the shadows.
No debate takes place here. Ideas are asserted, and dissenters are
banned. Given my presuppositions, then, this place is either not good
or actively evil. It is abundantly obvious that many here quite enjoy
doing their best to torment anyone with whom they disagree, and whose
moral rectitude seemingly rests upon their perfect conformity to
everyone else here. Everyone else here, of course, defines their very
presence as evidence of their profound humanitarianism and goodwill.
I first observed these things on the part of the left long ago. How,
for example, could Lenin claim that he was on the side of the workers,
and yet demand more of his workers than any Capitalist ever did? They
worked longer, harder, for less money, in less safe conditions and
risked the gulags for the slightest infractions. Yet, they were told it
was a “Workers Utopia”.
Once principle becomes disentangled from reality testing, there are
no crimes which are not possible. All manner of violence becomes
synonymous with virtue. On his own account Robespierre believed mass
beheadings were something close to the essence of Goodness.
I had hoped to raise awareness of a very important issue, but
seemingly made the error of getting myself CLASSIFIED as an Unwanted
Other in an environment of radical intolerance. That task, then, will
not bear fruit, and the sufferings associated with the grotesque
thievery that fractional reserve banking and the Federal Reserve enable,
will continue, and no doubt get worse in coming years.
And, of course, provided you can blame Ideological Others–whose
efforts to defend themselves will not be tolerated on this site, meaning
success in this enterprise is a given–then not one of you will suffer
the slightest pain of the guilt you WOULD feel if you cared in the
slightest about the difference between truth and falsehood.