It is probably necessary to engage in pointing out the problems on "both" sides. It is probably more necessary to point out the flaws on the conservative side in order to lower the barriers on the part of the people who are understood to have the most social clout.
It is probably necessary to engage in pointing out the problems on "both" sides. It is probably more necessary to point out the flaws on the conservative side in order to lower the barriers on the part of the people who are understood to have the most social clout.
But you said something about truth.
Let's be honest, the conservative side does not have control over the academy, the FBI, the CIA, Hollywood, Wall Street, or the media. Honesty would start with the observation that it is the other side that has the power in those areas. Further, honesty would reflect on the fact that conservative reaction is, well, reactionary to something.
As long as liberals had the ascending heights, things were tolerable, but something has changed in the last twenty years.
That something has something to do with the fact that liberals have been replaced by Leftists. I distinguish between the two on the grounds that the former had a commitment to due process and free speech. Whatever the replacement is for liberals, that replacement does not have much of a use for free speech or due process.
We can do all of the "both sides are wrong" analysis we want, but none of that is going to get us any closer to a solution if we can't admit that while conservatives have remained the same, liberals have mutated into something that is not liberal and so can hardly be expected to uphold the liberal order.
It is probably necessary to engage in pointing out the problems on "both" sides. It is probably more necessary to point out the flaws on the conservative side in order to lower the barriers on the part of the people who are understood to have the most social clout.
But you said something about truth.
Let's be honest, the conservative side does not have control over the academy, the FBI, the CIA, Hollywood, Wall Street, or the media. Honesty would start with the observation that it is the other side that has the power in those areas. Further, honesty would reflect on the fact that conservative reaction is, well, reactionary to something.
As long as liberals had the ascending heights, things were tolerable, but something has changed in the last twenty years.
That something has something to do with the fact that liberals have been replaced by Leftists. I distinguish between the two on the grounds that the former had a commitment to due process and free speech. Whatever the replacement is for liberals, that replacement does not have much of a use for free speech or due process.
We can do all of the "both sides are wrong" analysis we want, but none of that is going to get us any closer to a solution if we can't admit that while conservatives have remained the same, liberals have mutated into something that is not liberal and so can hardly be expected to uphold the liberal order.