We seem to be having two different conversations.
I was talking about your allegation that conservatives "love" to see American soldiers maimed and killed.
You said that without any signal that this was intended to be limited to the context of Iraq, so I didn't take it as such.
In contrast, my statement that liberals love authoritarian mass murderers is based on an entire lifetime of observation of liberals maundering over this and that Marxist authoritarian mass murderer, from Stalin to Mao to Castro to Saddam.
There are two ideals which I love, which cause me to throw in with the conservatives, which I consider to be absolute goods, free minds and free markets, democracy and capitalism.
Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats actually work towards both, free minds and free markets, but the one thing I have to hand to the Republicans is that they absolutely hate collectivism.
Upstream Sarman was maundering about how Saddam's victims "gave up their lives for the good of others," which is absolute bullcrap. They were murdered against their will.
But his statement was liberal collectivism in a nutshell. Forcing others to give up their freedom, their wealth, their lives, for the good of others, is the essence of collectivism, which is what liberalism has become. |
