Is ‘Liberal Idiot’ Redundant?
8th September 2009
The Other McCain has a short fuse.
Remarkable, really, how the Left’s erroneous presumptions haven’t changed at all: If the social welfare state is synonymous with enlightenment, opponents of the welfare state must therefore be unenlightened. The only question remaining for the liberal theorist is to identify the variety of psychopathology that explains this (presumably irrational) opposition.
So it is that Max Blumenthal, who no doubt favors putting the federal government in control of America’s health-care system, effectively nationalizing 1/7th of the economy, presumes to diagnose opponents of such policies as suffering from “the fear of freedom.”