Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
A nearby office has a student intern. She describes herself as a social liberal but fiscal conservative. She also believes women should have the right to abortion up to the point of viability because prior to that, the fetus is not a child and therefore is not entitled to the protection of law.<\/p>\n
Even after all these years, I am continually astonished at how glibly supposedly educated people say ridiculous things.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re socially liberal, you can\u2019t be fiscally conservative. Food is a basic human right (socially liberal) but some people can\u2019t afford to buy food. So what, we stick to being fiscally conservative and let them starve? No, we buy them food. Her social liberality trumps her fiscal conservatism and she ends up being a plain liberal, she just doesn\u2019t have the courage to admit it to herself.<\/p>\n
If we call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have? Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn\u2019t make it a leg. And calling a child a fetus doesn\u2019t make it something other than what it is \u2013 a child. All liberals agree women should be allowed to kill their children, the question is when to stop: at quickening, twinning, trimester, viability, partial-birth, or any time up until its second birthday? But no liberal is willing to say that aloud in plain English. They don\u2019t have the courage to admit to themselves the plain truth of their desires.<\/p>\n
Liberal is a synonym for willfully self-deluded. How can we save a society that refuses to admit the most basic, simple truths?<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
True.<\/p>\n
But it’s also human nature to jump into pools feet first.<\/p>\n
Especially when one lives in a place where calling oneself “conservative” is so socially dangerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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