The New Moral Law

[Fishrrman]

https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-new-moral-law_4259717.html

The New Moral Law
by Mark Bauerlein
Feb 8, 2022

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Excerpt:
President Joe Biden’s announcement that a black woman would be his nominee to replace Justice Stephen Breyer may violate the core liberal principle of individualism, but in no way should anyone be surprised.

Liberals have been crossing liberal premises for so long that no exertion of identity politics on their part should call for the charge “Hypocrite!” When someone pledges one thing and does another over and over, moral judgments only cloud the behavior. It’s too consistently inconsistent for that. Something else is going on.

The phenomenon is everywhere. We have super-liberal parents who put Black Lives Matter signs in their yards but do anything to get their kids into Tier One schools with a tiny black population. They say they care about people and they attach their ears to one NPR story after another on this victim and that, but they live in neighborhoods those victims could never afford. Mark Zuckerberg didn’t like Trump’s wall; at the same time, he was building a mile-long, six-foot high wall around his Hawaii estate and blocking longtime access to the beach. President Joe Biden claims to bring harmony to a nation divided by Trump, and proceeds to align opponents of his voting bill with Bull Connor and Jefferson Davis. Officials mandate masks and forbid gatherings, then they… well, you know.

Stop wasting your time yelling, “Hypocrisy!” Don’t bother pointing out the contradiction. They don’t care. Consistency is not a liberal virtue. Only the outcomes matter, as the favorite term equity underscores (equity seems to have passed diversity on the ladder of values), and the first outcome is that liberals remain in power. They’re the good ones, the responsible ones, the enlightened ones, and if they waffle and feign, if they self-contradict with a smile, they do so in order to protect the country from the deplorables and their impulsive leader.

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[DefiantMassRINO]

Limousine liberal hypocrisy is nothing new.  They need to do things that make themselves feel less guilty about being white and rich.

[Fishrrman]

A little more:
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When liberals twist their own principles, then, they have a binding goal: protect oneself. The Woke schoolyard is competitive and unpredictable. It’s also inconsistent, as when last year’s cultural respect becomes this year’s cultural appropriation. We shouldn’t expect consistency from liberals when they manage such a tense, mercurial environment, or merely seek to survive within it. Biden doesn’t have to be principled. He just has to endure, to go with the Woke flow, reverse course when he must, drift into illiberal words and deeds when necessary, scrap the old civic rules that kept politicians from demonizing a fair slice of the American public.

We now live under a governmental/corporate/digital regime that has shown its willingness to trash the old norms of free speech, freedom of association, freedom of religion, and rights of privacy. Liberals in power will compromise, trim, prevaricate, dissemble, and accuse in order to appease the zealots and keep their posts. America has entered a whole new moral condition, and the sooner conservatives realize it, the better they will fight the ideological war now thrust upon them.
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