Today's Anti-Conservative Quote: August 12, 2009

[Zomby Woof]

Most liberals never lost sight of the potential for evil in big government. They have consistently opposed government power in matters of personal and political belief. Liberals are not unconcerned with economic liberty, but they have come to believe that the common good requires that social justice be given a higher priority than absolute economic freedom. Conservatives are — and always have been — on the other side of both questions. They are much more prone than liberals to limiting personal and political liberties, but they place the freedom of an individual to do as he pleases in the economic realm at the top of their concerns. Social justice has held a lower priority for conservatives, from the days of Alexander Hamilton when they favored strong government as a means of protecting their economic privileges to the days of Ronald Reagan when they see government as an instrument of social justice and therefore a threat to their economic position.

Robert S. McElvaine

[silverweb]

1. K&R

Beautifully said. Thank you.

[Renew Deal]

2. Did you actually rec it?

Because when I did it went to 1. I bet this is another thread hit by the unrec bandits.

[silverweb]

7. Yes, I did actually rec it.

When I did, it went to 0, so some jerk had hit unrec first.

[Zomby Woof]

3. Z-kick

[yowzayowzayowza]

6. Y-K&R

[Echo In Light]

4. I thought of this one from Jung the other day:

"Among neurotics, there are not a few who do not require any reminders of their social duties and obligations, but are born and destined rather to be bearers of new cultural ideals. They are neurotic as long as they bow down before authority and refuse the freedom to which they are destined. As long as we look at life only retrospectively, as is the case in the psychoanalytic writings of the Viennese school, we shall never do justice to these persons and never bring them for the longed-for deliverance. For in this way we train them only to be obedient children and thereby strengthen the very forces that made them ill — their conservative backwardness and submission to authority." ~ C.G. Jung

[Joe the Liberal]

5. Great quote. n/t