Platitude Adjustment

You can tell conservatives take Christmas very seriously by the messages of peace and goodwill they post on that sacred day:

Some people seem to think that, if life is not fair, then the answer is to turn more of the nation's resources over to politicians -- who will, of course, then spend these resources in ways that increase the politicians' chances of getting reelected.

The annual outbursts of intolerance toward any display of traditional Christmas scenes, or even daring to call a Christmas tree by its name, show that today's liberals are by no means liberal. Behind the mist of their lofty words, the totalitarian mindset shows through....

The more I study the history of intellectuals, the more they seem like a wrecking crew, dismantling civilization bit by bit -- replacing what works with what sounds good....

If someone wrote a novel about a man who was raised from childhood to resent the successful and despise the basic values of America -- and who then went on to become President of the United States -- that novel would be considered too unbelievable, even for a work of fiction. Yet that is what has happened in real life.

Everybody is talking about how we are going to pay for the huge national debt, but nobody seems to be talking about the runaway spending which created that record-breaking debt. In other words, the big spenders get political benefits from handing out goodies, while those who resist giving them more money to spend will be blamed for sending the country off the "fiscal cliff"....

After watching a documentary about the tragic story of Jonestown, I was struck by the utterly unthinking way that so many people put themselves completely at the mercy of a glib and warped man, who led them to degradation and destruction. And I could not help thinking of the parallel with the way we put a glib and warped man in the White House.

Two things: first, Thomas Sowell is what passes for an intellectual among conservatives. He's one of their deep thinkers. And all that brilliance, all those ideas, come down to...an incoherent mess of fatuous sloganeering. That's all they've got.

And Thing Two: this was posted on December 25. This is his Christmas message. The guy who's pissing and moaning about liberals' totalitarian hatred of Christmas also thinks it's appropriate to celebrate that joyous holiday by comparing the President to Jim Jones.

The intellectual and moral bankruptcy of modern conservatism are all neatly summed up in this one idiotic column.