uruloki’s lair

Doing my mandatory daily reading, came across this note. The Boston Globe article that is referenced makes a very good case for why liberals (“progressives” in the article) should be enjoying the Bush presidency. However, it completely misrepresents the goals of “progressives” in the US.

“Individual freedom and equality before the law”? When have they cared about either of those principles?

Individual freedom: Let’s go with the junior Senator from New York and liberalism’s post girl, Hillary Clinton.

Yep, that pretty much sums up the Left’s ideas on individual freedoms and how dear they are. Who else thought that way? Well, only the Nazis and the Communists did, but they didn’t do anything that the Left thinks is wrong anyways, so they are in good company.

Equality before the law: Two words – affirmative action. When your primary program for promoting “equality before the law” is racial discrimination, you sure are doing a great job in that area. In fact, when that program isn’t upheld by any laws but by judicial fiat that completely ignores the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it would seem that there is a great opposition to doing anything within the law.

There’s more, lots more. However, the basic point has been made: liberals/progressives in the country do not have individual rights and equality before the law as “their deepest principles.”

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