“Freedom is certainly a great good, to be cherished by all upright citizens,” prattles a “political scientist.” We might hope only Progressives would buy such hogwash, but nope: his audience is “traditional conservatives.” “[Freedom] is also, however, only a partial good—one of the elements of the common good, but not the common good itself. A fully good country is not characterized by freedom alone any more than it is characterized only by prosperity, power, security, virtue, or any other important but limited good. It is the job of conservatives to avoid excessively ideological thinking about politics…”
Hmmm. I daresay such heroes as Patrick Henry (“Give me liberty or give me death!”) and Karl Hess (“Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice…”) would vehemently disagree. Nor would they denounce it as a “great error … to treat freedom as the answer to every public question, to think, talk, and act as if a freer society is always a better one.”
Wow. Just wow.
Nor had Mr. Poli-Sci finished. “Part of the job of traditional conservatives is to resist that error of the right, to remind their fellow citizens that freedom is not the answer to every political question, not the solution to every political problem.”
And this from the Witherspoon Institute, which contends that it “seeks to enhance the public understanding of the moral foundations of free societies…” With friends like that, Lady Liberty needs no enemies, let alone the millions currently cheering her death-throes.
3:50 pm on August 4, 2016 Email Becky Akers
