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Politicians and deep thinkers try to call other things "freedom" in order to sell them. They try to call it "economic freedom" when the government guarantees you food, shelter, and other basics. Prisons have that same kind of "freedom." So do Communist countries. People try to

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In the real world, the connection between efforts and results remains exactly what it has always been, for society as a whole. What magic words like "compassion" mean is that some must work even harder, so that others don't have to work at all.

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The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his “basic rights.”

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The American Revolution was more than a rebellion against England. It was a rebellion against the whole idea that some special anointed could tell everybody else what to do. The Constitution of the United States is pervaded by the conviction that no one is to be trusted with too

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At the heart of the left’s vision of the world is the implicit assumption that high-minded third parties like themselves can make better decisions for other people than those people can make for themselves.

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Progressives spearheaded the eugenics movement, dedicated to reducing the reproduction of supposedly “inferior” individuals and races. The eugenics movement spawned Planned Parenthood, among other groups. In academia, there were 376 courses devoted to eugenics in 1920.

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The biggest difference between the Left and Right today, when it comes to racial issues, is that liberals tend to take the side of those blacks who are doing the wrong things — hoodlums the Left depicts as martyrs, while the Right defends those blacks more likely to be the

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During the heyday of the Progressive movement in the early 20th century, people on the left were in the forefront of those promoting doctrines of innate, genetic inferiority of not only blacks but also of people from Eastern Europe and Southern Europe, as compared with people

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Resentments and hostility toward people with higher achievements are one of the most widespread of human failings. Resentments of achievements are more deadly than envy of wealth.

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Achievements are like a slap across the face to those who are not achieving, and many people react with the same kind of anger that such an insult would provoke.

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Many of our educators, our intelligentsia, and our media — not to mention our politicians — promote an attitude that other people’s achievements are grievances, rather than examples.

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People who call differences “inequities” and achievements “privilege” leave social havoc in their wake, while feeling noble about siding with the less fortunate.

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In the name of respecting all cultures, Western nations have welcomed people who respect neither the cultures nor the rights of the population among whom they have settled.

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European countries especially have thrown their doors open to a large influx of Muslim immigrants who have no intention of becoming part of the cultures of the countries to which they immigrate but to re-create their own cultures in those countries. In the name of tolerance,

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There are people who will not stop until they get stopped — and much of the media, the political classes and the cultural elites of the West cannot bring themselves to even criticize, much less stop, the dangers or degeneracy among groups viewed sympathetically as underdogs.

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Balkanization has been glorified as "diversity" and diversity has become too sacred to defile with anything so gross as hard facts.

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Our survival may in the long run be as menaced by degeneration within — from many sources and in many ways — as was that of the Roman Empire.