I think my point about liberals just not getting it is made in spades. You can't follow Marx, Stalin, Hitler, and the rest of the totalitarians and admit it. You have to pretend that the "controllers" and destroyers of all private potential opposition are somehow divided between right and left wings. That way, by the tortured emotional argument of liberalism, you can appear to be making that non-existent choice.
Whether the coercive power of the state is used to steal intellectual property from drug companies, steal property rights from the owners of natural resources, force energy producers to operate at a loss, kill off the capitalist dogs in work camps, or eliminate Jews, Slaves and other "inferior races" from their empire, it's the same old murderous game. They just strangle Liberty from a different, random angle of attack, and pretend their crime is somehow novel and justifiable... |
