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Liberating Liberals
highly questionable vision, and under often inhumane conditions, is a whole other wax ball.
One of the largest American shadows of God is the one Voltaire uncovered — that we live in the “best of all possible worlds.” And, by extension, the best
of all possible countries. And though liberals have focused a great deal of light into this shadow, it still prevents many liberals from imagining the immensity of the wrongness of many directions of our country.
To make matters more complicated, many leftist liberals counter these rose-colored glasses with their opposite — the view that we live in the worst of
all possible worlds. That is often the Marxian and Anarchist view.
They refuse to recognize many of the great things about our society and instead condemn them all.
But freethinking liberals can travel between these extremes, understanding that there are some very good things about our country, as well as some very bad. Then we proceed to figure out which is which, according to our best, but fallible, judgment.
A thought murder a day keeps ...
In psychological terms the shadows of God mean that if we repress something in our minds it will come out in some obnoxious neurosis or monstrous psychosis. It’s one of the ways the mind works. The great compassion that is a fine virtue of liberals may
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