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The limits of their compassion

No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.

Author Greg RavenPosted on November 24, 2022November 24, 2022Categories liberalismTags Thomas Sowell

Disinformation

Every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered … History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 10, 2022May 10, 2022Categories corruption, demagogues, evil, government, liberalismTags George Orwell

Liberalism succinctly

Chesterton spoke of ‘the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.’ It would be hard to sum up liberalism more succinctly.

Author Greg RavenPosted on February 18, 2022Categories liberalismTags Joe Sobran

Progressivism in a nutshell

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments, and courts. It’s high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

Author Greg RavenPosted on November 10, 2020Categories culture, liberalismTags Walter E. Williams

Take off the mask

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

Author Greg RavenPosted on September 25, 2020September 26, 2020Categories liberalismTags Thomas Sowell

Sanity needed

Much of the left’s hate speech bears greater similarity to a psychological disorder than to standard political discourse.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 17, 2020Categories liberalismTags Ann Coulter

Government as the extension of the self

Liberals: I like it, so taxpayers must subsidize it; I don’t care for it, so it must be banned.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 17, 2020May 17, 2020Categories liberalismTags Ann Coulter

Better in every way

The left’s vision is not only a vision of the world, but also a vision of themselves, as superior beings pursuing superior ends. In the United States, however, this vision conflicts with a Constitution that begins, ‘We the People …’

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 16, 2020April 16, 2020Categories liberalismTags Thomas Sowell

Virtue signalling

Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 7, 2020Categories liberalismTags Thomas Sowell

Virtue signalling

Liberals take positions that make them look good and feel good — and show very little interest in actual consequences for others, even when liberal policies are leaving havoc in their wake.

Author Greg RavenPosted on December 12, 2019Categories liberalismTags Thomas Sowell

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