In Europe And America Alike, Voters Increasingly

Keep In Mind That Eric Alterman Is Media Critic For The Nation-a Hysterically Left-wing Magazine Dedicated To The Proposition That Corporate America, U.s. Foreign Policy And The Republican Party Are Criminal, Racist Or Both. The Simple Reality Is That, For Him, The Democratic Party Is Far Too Conservative.

Liberals And Leftists Have Been Dismissing Inconvenient Facts By Attacking Motives For Generations. In The 1930s, '40s, And '50s, Soviet Spies And Abettors Attacked The Motives Of Their Accusers Because The Fact Of Their Guilt Was Undeniable. In The 1960s, Over A Thousand Psychiatrists Who'd Never Even Met Barry Goldwater Signed A Petition Saying The Gop Candidate Was Too Mentally Unstable To Be President.

If You Think Shrinking Government And Getting It Less Involved In Your Life Is A Hallmark Of Tyranny It Is Only Because You Are Either Grotesquely Ignorant Or Because You Subscribe To A Statist Ideology That Believes The Expansion Of The State Is The Expansion Of Liberty.

Governing Involves Choosing And Making Choices Between Competing Goods.

Social Distinctions Tend To Matter Only At Your Own Level And Above.