The Laziness of the Liberal Mind
13th December 2016
Steven Hayward does the autopsy.
Of all the stale cliches of liberalism, “the side of history” has to be the laziest. It is a romper room version of Hegelianism, or a secularized version of Providence. (Notice that it involves the Divine Right of the State replacing the Divine Right of Kings as the agent of transcendent History.)
But it explains a lot, including the incredulity and rage liberals exhibit whenever they lose an election. If “History” is on your side, it is categorically impossible that liberalism can lose unless the voters are stupid, or Republican cheated. (You can pick more than one.)
December 14th, 2016 at 09:53
As Lincoln once said, “In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong.”
December 14th, 2016 at 20:55
And since Lincoln was a Republican, he was obviously talking about Democrats. Nicely put.
December 15th, 2016 at 14:13
Actually, he was talking about Rebel-flag-wavers, who were at the time trying to dismember the Union.
Let’s hope Trump’s Rebel-flag-waving supporters don’t succeed where their forebears failed.