Saturday, November 11, 2023
The “Liberal” of Our Time
In spite of some reasonable stances among “liberals,” the fact remains that the values of leftism today default to an increase and centralization of state authority and the inevitable corruptions of a powerful state. They’ve been on a road toward communism for some time. What distinguishes the current circumstance is that they’ve arrived.
It’s one thing to support an increased minimum wage, quite another to use the Justice department to purge “MAGA extremists.” Any political ideology outside of a reasonable penumbra of the “center” always prioritizes enhancing its own authority and eliminating their opposition. Once successfully eliminating alternative views, they pretty much do whatever they want. No one is going to like what’s coming. Well, actually, there are always a few apparatchiks that are fine with a population under their thumb.
