I receive Jonah Goldberg's e-newsletter, The Goldberg
File, today and he had a paragraph in it I really enjoyed.
“The Left has long been enamored with the idea that they speak truth to
power. But the powerful people they set their sights on almost invariably turn
out to be pretty harmless (and the institutions they attack -- universities,
corporations, etc. -- are remarkably spineless). As I noted the other week, if the Koch brothers
were a fraction as dangerous as they’re made out to be, no one would be
attacking them for fear of being fed to sharks with frick’n lasers on their heads.
We’re breeding generations of citizens who think attacking left-wing
college administrators from the left is bold and courageous and denouncing
Islamic extremism is racist. We apologize for the root causes that lead to
actual violence, while we theorize endlessly about how ultimately we’re really
to blame. Our military heroes are terroristic and the terrorists are
misunderstood. That’s not merely dazzlingly idiotic; it is effulgently
suicidal.”
Notice the unique twist? I thought that last sentence was truly effulgent.
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