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| Subject: Resist 'useful leftist idiots' Sun Nov 22, 2020 9:11 pm | |
| As a libertarian, I admire personal freedom within our raucous and free-wheeling society more than anything else, while respecting that we must observe the rules of the American road. But those rules represent the rub, for my ideal of as much freedom within a strong and coherent society as possible is very different from the top-down autocracy the progressive wing of the Democratic Party — the very loud cohort of liberals gaining traction as Joe Biden gets his footing — wants to impose on the rest of us. The election showed clearly that we are a centrist country and that progressive ideas are found only in specific, far-left ZIP codes. But nevermind that the majority of us desire moderate governance, for the minority on the far-left is ready, willing and able to force us to do their biding. Why? Because, boys and girls, they are smarter than the rest of America and, with a potentially pliant new president, they see a way forward. They are the “useful idiots” of Vladimir Lenin’s description — but only if we let them install a regime of privation of common sense and freedom. Countering them is our challenge.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/22/letters-to-the-editor-resist-useful-idiots/
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