Fairness Left Behind

A non-post but I wanted to call attention to the American Thinker which has an informative article by J.R. Dunn concerning the left's feedback loop of information between the Net and the major media outlets.

Dunn sort of tongue-in-cheek suggests that one way to thwart the national media in this would be "...feeding deliberately false information with the intention of later exposure...".

Of course, conservatives and libertarians are unlikely to do this, for the same reason that McCain and other Republicans tend to "reach across the aisle", while Democrats tend to shove you down the stairs. The collectivists talks about fairness and fair play, but individualists really believe in and practice fair play. We live by the Golden Rule as Jesus gave it: Therefore, whatever you want others to do for you, do also the same for them (Matthew 7:12).

I want other people to mostly leave me alone, so I leave other people alone. I want them to stay out of my business, so I stay out of theirs. I want other people to treat me fairly, so I treat them fairly.

The godless left -- and they are godless -- the godless left has their own version which goes something like: Take advantage of the inherent fairness of those who believe in the Golden Rule every chance you get, and mock them as suckers afterward. That may not be the exact phrasing from Marx 7:11, but it's close enough.

Our problem is simply that, though those on the left accuse us of all kinds of evil -- you know, like making laws that cause half the black male population to wind up in prison at one time or another or being greedy business people interested only in profit -- we are actually the ones with a functioning moral compass, as a general rule. I think we will have trouble playing the same dirty tricks with information technology and the Web that leftists do for that reason, but also because we do not view politics in the same way. To us, politics is a necessary evil, and we don't expect the government to do anything for us. We want a negative: for government intrusiveness and power to reduced to the greatest extent possible.

For the left, politics is life, even religion. It is the means of forcing others to bow to their demands and give them what they want. They are dangerous because they do not see an external standard of right and wrong. Their only standards are internal or the result of "consensus". Thus, they have no qualms about trampling individual rights for the sake of a false god they call the Greater Good.

We can never stoop to their level of lying and deceiving for political gain -- not for long anyway. They will continue to attack good people with false accusations, and we will continue to speak the truth. At least until they declare truth to be hate speech.