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We should be asking ourselves a very basic question. What do we find more useful and interesting, our own opinions or different opinions? Many people find different opinions to be useful and interesting, which may be why there are more independent voters than Democrats or Republicans.

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Liberalism doesn’t yield the perfect world that the ‘woke’ left demands. Hence liberalism has to go. Like it or not, but the ‘woke’ are the Brownshirts of our time. Liberalism didn’t produce the perfect world that the Nazis (and Maoists and Stalinists, etc.) demanded. So of course, it had to go.

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May 24, 2023Liked by Richard V Reeves

Marvelous! And necessary

Nice reminder of Mill’s thoughtful reflections on custom

And as to the neo-theocrats like Vermeule, though they have not the intellectual honesty to so describe themselves, I am solidly with Mr Toad as against the stoats and weasels, “Whack ‘em and whack’em and whack ‘em”

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