The right values action based on principle and practical results. The left values action based on emotion and narcissistic feel-goodism.So why do liberal-left politicians expend so much energy trying to restrict gun ownership or even ban guns outright?
The principal reason, of course, is that modern liberalism is the victory of symbolism over substance. A public policy or law is seldom designed mostly to solve an identified problem. Its primary purpose is to reflect well on the good intentions of the person or group proposing it.
So what if laws and social programs produce no tangible benefits? They remain on the statute books and retain full funding -- complete with massive bureaucracies -- because they enable liberals to convince themselves something is being done. Activity is confused with achievement.
"One should doubtless keep an open mind...though open at both ends, like the food pipe, and have a capacity for excretion as well as intake." -- Northrop Frye, 'The Great Code'
Monday, March 3, 2008
The neo-liberal mind
Lorne Gunter examines, again, the futility of banning guns. In doing so he reiterates some basic insights into the neo-liberal mindset:
Absolutely; take a look at http://www.lowe.ca/Rick/FirearmsLegislation/AGangThatCouldn'tShootStraight.html , wherein an insider in the LIEberals' "Justice" Department lays out exactly how and why they passed C-68 in the first place.
ReplyDeleteTen years after Great Britain banned handguns,
ReplyDeletehandgun crimes have doubled