YOU CAN’T REASON A MAN OUT OF WHAT HE WAS NOT REASONED INTO
"I have described progressives as having three main characteristics: they see themselves as morally superior, they distort the truth and lie in support of programs based on their moral superiority, and they use government as a cudgel to force people to accept progressive ideas. Look to Obama if you have any question about how that works.
This makes progressives out as cynical, devious, deceitful people. Some, like Obama, are obviously devious and deceitful (you can keep your doctor, this debate will be transparent, broadcast on CNN), and that type of progressive is illustrated in example two below; but probably most progressives merely suffer from a habit of thinking that assumes the absolute correctness of moral ideas, often ideas they grew up with. Such people are immune to logical arguments against their assumptions, for, as Jonathan Swift wrote, "it is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he wasn't reasoned into."
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If politics continues as a kind of carnival in which the truth only appears in the house of mirrors, stretched and bent out of shape, and the consequences of government programs are glossed over because the programs are rooted in morally superior ideas, it will remain a self-destructive game which will finally destroy the society that plays it."
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