tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post7633594879572383777..comments2024-03-28T18:56:40.762-04:00Comments on Waddy Is Right: To Kavanaugh, Or Not To Kavanaugh? That Is The QuestionNicholas Waddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14650770835328089297noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-60797672070875864082018-07-17T10:32:57.197-04:002018-07-17T10:32:57.197-04:00Dr. Waddy: Yeah, I knew an administrator who had a...Dr. Waddy: Yeah, I knew an administrator who had a sign saying "tolerance" in his office but was reflexively dismissive of conservative views. Tolerance of what?Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11685137896038330527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-44842033286815895662018-07-16T12:05:12.501-04:002018-07-16T12:05:12.501-04:00Well said, Jack! It strikes me that so many words...Well said, Jack! It strikes me that so many words employed in politics are bent this way and that to serve the interests of the speaker. "Tolerance" is one of them. In the end, we're all "tolerant"...except when we're not. And that's, of course, where things get interesting!Nicholas Waddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14650770835328089297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-88801221305951461562018-07-16T09:56:18.518-04:002018-07-16T09:56:18.518-04:00Dr. Waddy: I agree that the left probably does lo...Dr. Waddy: I agree that the left probably does look at it that way. And perhaps in 1917, when some of the worst aspects of capitalism still obtained, this could have been a credible view. But modern leftists conveniently ignore a century in which their views were given a thorough objective test; in practice they proved to be a guarantee of incalculable evil. Meanwhile, free enterprise and intellectual proliferation has brought more and more of the world to a standard of living which goes far toward the definition of a good life. Evil is as evil does and the modern left would do much of more it if they could. <br /><br />Yeah, when leftists advance morally relativistic views they are really saying "our views are good, yours are bad". "Don't be 'judgemental' ", (though they would be loath to define the term because they know it would be reductio ad adsurdum in a NY minute)they reflexively chide. Actually they thrive on judging others (maybe that's why they want to be Judges). Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11685137896038330527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-26439264303943053122018-07-15T01:08:22.948-04:002018-07-15T01:08:22.948-04:00Jack, I suspect you're right that some in the ...Jack, I suspect you're right that some in the younger generation are so steeped in political correctness and "social justice" blather that they can't conceive of another way to think (despite their protestations of moral relativism). Leftism can be reduced to a morality play, in many ways: good versus evil. Thus, all the liberal true believers need to know about anyone is...is he with us or against us? The rest follows naturally.Nicholas Waddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14650770835328089297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-69198830400154261942018-07-14T19:56:22.461-04:002018-07-14T19:56:22.461-04:00Dr. Waddy: I think some younger leftists have bee...Dr. Waddy: I think some younger leftists have been brought up in a culture in which Marxist values are givens and that they may not know or care or have thought about the origins of these standards. To them, pre 1917 Russia is unknown and unknowable .If they have been to "university" since the '70's, they may just think "well, that's the way it ought to be, of course"<br /><br />The advent of a national leader who is not intimidated by their political correctness is incomprehensible to them and their reactions are those of people who have had the rug pulled out from under them. But Strzok is nonetheless Slick willy's faithful child in his "deny, deny, deny" testimony. Why of course his efforts were devoted to defeating Trump. That he should advance any other conclusion is incredible. Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11685137896038330527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-47815250847794169892018-07-14T11:30:01.469-04:002018-07-14T11:30:01.469-04:00Oh, Jack -- I don't think there's any doub...Oh, Jack -- I don't think there's any doubt that the federal bureaucracy is teeming with the very Marxists you speak of. Certainly it's stacked with Democrats. I inwardly rejoice every time one of these shop-worn Bolsheviks resigns in disgust over some act of Trump's! We need to clean house. And I'm sure you're right that the true believers on the Left feel that defeating the Right is far more important than "bourgeois" notions of professionalism or even-handedness. Strzok seems to have been successful in pulling the wool over some people's eyes, but it beggars belief that a man who hates Trump that much could objectively decide whether he should be investigated.Nicholas Waddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14650770835328089297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-86854922510559484152018-07-13T16:15:27.410-04:002018-07-13T16:15:27.410-04:00Also, sorry for the poor construction of my senten...Also, sorry for the poor construction of my sentence reading "I think the left... standards etc". It should read "I think the left... standards, finds it easier to disobey... ."Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11685137896038330527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-23299797755030435122018-07-13T09:51:06.492-04:002018-07-13T09:51:06.492-04:00Dr. Waddy: I'm encouraged by your optimism ab...Dr. Waddy: I'm encouraged by your optimism about Judge Kavanaugh and my concern over Judge Napolitano's misgivings are mostly alleviated. You've supplied a workable and plausible definition of the "swamp"; I'd only disagree with the last sentence. I think the left, with its airy and reflexive dismissal of any opposing position together with the Marxist conviction,which motivates some "swampers",that their doctrine is unbeholden to any other and is incomprehensible using "bourgeois" standards, makes it easier for them to disobey understood injunctions against the use of government bureaucracy for partisan purposes. I believe I saw this bias in NY State government and would guess it obtains in the Federal gov't too. It would be interesting to see a survey, similar to ones done with military personnel, college professors and journalists, of the party affiliations of Federal bureaucrats. Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11685137896038330527noreply@blogger.com