Monday, September 19, 2011

The anti-intellectualism of liberalism...

has been well documented by historians Richard Hafstadter, Christopher Lasch and others. So, the piece below should come as no surprise. Here at the DCNY blog and elsewhere the anti-intellectualism of pecusa has been well documented, and this anti-intellectualism of pecusa should come as no surprise since pecusa is thoroughly liberal. Tyranny has been in force in pecusa at least since General Convention decided that women's ordination would need to be enforced in all dioceses. When liberal ideas are insufficient to win full approval, tyranny is the natural course for liberals in power. pecusa can be expected to travel the same trajectory on the ordination of sexually active homosexuals.

From a review of the book highlighted below:
Today, liberals no longer espouse the liberal philosophy of the 18th century -- libertarians do (as much as possible.) Liberals have sought to maximize social engineering, creating a massive government bureaucracy dedicated to governing the lives of American citizens supposedly for their own good. One of their heroes, Walter Lippmann even adressed the idea that social engineering needed to be extended into procreation in that actions needed to be taken to assure the "best" Americans breed while undesirables do not. Gee, that sounds like Hitler and the SS, but I digress. This is not liberalism -- it is tyranny. Or so the author argues (correctly.) Inherent in this philosophy is the concept that government by definition is the enemy of liberty since to govern means to restrict individual liberty for the collective good -- like requiring all people to drive on the right side of the road. An even better and more contemporary example is political correctness, probably the most heinious and devastating attack on individual liberty in the U.S. since its formation.

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