One must appreciate the frustration of Naomi Wolf recently, who finds herself increasingly having to share the writing of conservatives who are still standing up for basic civil liberties in COVID-world, while her own progressive comrades-in-arms have gone almost entirely silent on the subject.
Great essay. Progressives, being Godless, have no "moral" reasoning. If they are using moral language, they must have a hidden motivation. I think you are onto the idea that things like the principle of consent, tolerance, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion are all Trojan Horses that have been very effective at infiltrating the institutions that the progressives hate. Now that they have the upper hand, they quickly turn the tables. Rather than moral reasoning, it is power reasoning.
That is true and I could have written more on the level of... people who actually have power, or people you might call the "progressive elite" - for them it is power reasoning, and they know that, and apparent moral hypocrisy doesn't bother them a bit, because they know the real goal is only more power. Maybe when I wrote this I had more in mind though the "little people progressives", who have imbibed their moral reasoning from the culture, and it isn't consistent (because it isn't)... but it isn't as power-centric for them either, because they are just the little people. And so they are actually trying to apply some sort of moral reasoning to events around them, but their moral framework is defective (and defect #1 is that it is missing God)... but how are they reasoning through these issues? That might've been the sort of folks I had in mind when writing this.
Yes, you are right. That group should be given grace and compassion and should have Truth proclaimed to them. That truth should be coming from the Church, but Progressivism has infiltrated there as well. And then there is the fact that I have not been very faithful, in the good-old-days, of proclaiming the truth.
Great essay. Progressives, being Godless, have no "moral" reasoning. If they are using moral language, they must have a hidden motivation. I think you are onto the idea that things like the principle of consent, tolerance, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion are all Trojan Horses that have been very effective at infiltrating the institutions that the progressives hate. Now that they have the upper hand, they quickly turn the tables. Rather than moral reasoning, it is power reasoning.
That is true and I could have written more on the level of... people who actually have power, or people you might call the "progressive elite" - for them it is power reasoning, and they know that, and apparent moral hypocrisy doesn't bother them a bit, because they know the real goal is only more power. Maybe when I wrote this I had more in mind though the "little people progressives", who have imbibed their moral reasoning from the culture, and it isn't consistent (because it isn't)... but it isn't as power-centric for them either, because they are just the little people. And so they are actually trying to apply some sort of moral reasoning to events around them, but their moral framework is defective (and defect #1 is that it is missing God)... but how are they reasoning through these issues? That might've been the sort of folks I had in mind when writing this.
Yes, you are right. That group should be given grace and compassion and should have Truth proclaimed to them. That truth should be coming from the Church, but Progressivism has infiltrated there as well. And then there is the fact that I have not been very faithful, in the good-old-days, of proclaiming the truth.