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A Doxology of the Left
If you find yourself agreeing, even sleepily, to three or more of the italicized propositions below, you may proudly count yourself a man or woman of the left.
1) A Feodor Dostoevsky character exclaims in one of his novels, “If there is no God, anything is possible.” There is no God, and anything is possible.
2) Punishment is no answer to crime, because crime is a social disorder that should be treated by psychologists and sociologists, not prison wardens, and social disorders may be adjusted through the adjustment of antique societal structures.
3) Laws and punishments do not restore order. They exacerbate social disorder and provide employment to lawyers and law schools.
4) Both education and parenting are forms of oppression. See Paulo Freire’s book, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed, copyright 1970.
5) “History is bunk” – Henry Ford.
6) The present must always trump the past, because the past is over.
7) Freedom is a danger to posterity and must always be “overseen” and regulated by enlightened politicians and “experts.”
8) The U.S. Constitution, regarded in the same manner as statutes, should have no more hold over us than infinitely adjustable and perfectible state laws.
9) Not the betterment of the state but the exercise of power is the whole of politics. “Government,” George Washington said, “is force.”
10) Despite what you have heard – “the exception proves the rule” – the operative principle of any modest leftist is: Any exception to a rule invalidates the rule.
11) Regulation is ownership. It is no longer necessary for socialists and aspiring communists to seize the means of production in order to wrest political power from greedy capitalists. It is enough to make them pay for regulations, which achieves the same purpose.
12) Our constitutional separation of powers is enhanced when any of the three separated powers collude to advance their separate interests; immodesty, in this regard is a public benefit that does not perversely eviscerate the Constitution, for how can a public benefit be unconstitutional?
13) What is the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire? Answer: The billionaire is 1,000 million times more evil than the millionaire.
A Threnody of the Right
If you find yourself agreeing with three or more of the following propositions, you may be an emergent man or woman of the right.
1) Whatever is taxed tends to disappear.
2) There is no such thing as a perfect undeveloped technology.
3) Creativity, not profit, is the yeast in the economic loaf.
4) You will get more of what you finance, however harmful.
5) Corruption lies in the ganglion of complexity.
6) Humor is by nature conservative because it depends on jarring disproportions, and the humorist must first apprehend right proportion to make a joke.
7) If you can’t produce a product, political or otherwise that sells, you must rely in force to peddle the product.
8) The opposite of democracy is governmental force.
9) The relationship of a socialist government to the people is an inverse one: the more prosperous the government, the poorer the people; the more powerful the government, the weaker the people; the loftier the government, the more suppressed is the general population.
10) Modesty in government affairs is a revolutionary doctrine.
11) The left in the United States does not wish to initiate any savings, because a dollar saved is a dollar lost to future spending, and spending plays the same role among leftists, many of whom are “practical atheists,” as does grace in the Christian religion.
12) More centralized government is not better government.
13) In a politics that depends entirely on numbers and force, truth and the political good are fugitives and partisan fantasies.
