Just days ago, a popular talk radio show host lamented that the attempt on the part of conservatives to fight back against the move to normalize homosexual \u201cmarriage\u201d was tantamount to the attempt to fight back the tides of the ocean.<\/p>\n
Though he didn\u2019t say it, he may as well have said that it is as impossible to resist most of the left\u2019s whole agenda<\/i> as it is impossible to resist any force of nature.<\/p>\n
And maybe he would have been correct.<\/p>\n
Perhaps, then, it is time for those on the right to try a new strategy: continue to fight, but do not <\/i>fight back.\u00a0 <\/i><\/p>\n
Some atheists are painfully aware of the fact that those of their ilk who insist upon combatting theism to the death actually legitimate belief in God, for the concept of God is as essential to their position as it is to that of their opponents: atheism depends <\/i>upon theism. Similarly, in, let\u2019s say, denying the leftist\u2019s contention that income \u201cinequality<\/i>\u201d is a pressing problem, those on the right legitimize the concept<\/i> of income \u201cinequality.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, rather than resist the logic of their rivals, those on the right should simply exploit it\u2014that is, give it no more than a shove or two\u2014so that it will be seen for the illogic that it is and, hence, collapse under its own weight.\u00a0 The subject of income \u201cinequality\u201d supplies a nice illustration as to how this political judo can be implemented in action.<\/p>\n
When the left cries about income inequality, <\/i>those on the right should first note that such \u201cinequality\u201d amounts to inter-personal differences <\/i>in labor prices<\/i>.\u00a0 The price that, say, a janitor can charge an employer for his labor isn\u2019t nearly as much as that which a brain surgeon can charge for his.\u00a0 <\/i>Then, rightists should not only agree <\/i>with their opponents that differences\u2014i.e. \u201cinequalities\u201d\u2014in labor prices should be ameliorated; they should go on to demand that differences\u2014\u201cinequalities\u201d\u2014in all <\/i>prices should be rectified as well.\u00a0 After all, if it is \u201cunfair\u201d or \u201cunjust\u201d that the price of a busboy\u2019s labor is unequal, radically<\/i> unequal, to that of the labor of an astrophysicist, then it is just as unfair and, hence, unjust, that the price of DVD is unequal, radically <\/i>unequal, to that of, say, a Cadillac.<\/p>\n
When the left demands that \u201cwe\u201d raise the tax rates of the wealthy, the right should not only agree, but beseech Washington to tax all <\/i>of the resources of \u201cthe wealthiest one percent.\u201d\u00a0 Why not?\u00a0 If it is permissible, and even obligatory, for \u201csociety\u201d to confiscate any<\/i> of its citizens\u2019 legally acquired property, to say nothing of the continually increasing portions of it that the government actually does tax, then there is no principled basis for drawing a non-arbitrary limit to what can be taken.\u00a0 And if the objective is to \u201chelp the poor\u201d and\/or \u201cthe middle class,\u201d then it can\u2019t matter, morally, how much of a citizen\u2019s assets with which he is made to part.<\/p>\n
When the left insists upon raising \u201cthe minimum wage\u201d to $10.00 an hour, the right should insist upon raising it ten, 100, or 1,000 times that.\u00a0 Since the left speaks and acts as if there exists a potentially bottomless supply of funds from which to draw in subsidizing their \u201ctransformative\u201d agenda, the right simply has to note that neither practically or in principle can there be any justification for placing such an arbitrary cap as $10.00 an hour on the minimum wage.<\/p>\n
When the left urges the government to coerce private employers into hiring and serving people, the right should demand of government that it go further and coerce the heads of households to welcome into their homes, or to create new homes with, people with whom they may not wish to associate.\u00a0 If \u201csocial justice\u201d requires that employers use their own property to promote, say, racial diversity, then \u201csocial justice\u201d should also require that all citizens use their <\/i>property to do the same.\u00a0 What this might very well then mean is that\u2014again, all for the sake of \u201csocial justice\u201d\u2014the government will have to \u201credistribute\u201d children of one race from the homes in which they were born and reared to the homes of members of other races.\u00a0 What a way to teach them\u2014to teach all of us\u2014of the endless riches of diversity! \u201cSocial justice\u201d might also require that the government establish quotas designed to allow only so many intra-<\/i>racial marriages per year: people would be made to marry members of other races.<\/p>\n
When the left goes on about how the only thing that matters in marriage is love, <\/i>the right should go on to argue for polygamy, polyandry, and whatever other arrangements of which they can imagine.<\/p>\n
Whether such a strategy as I here recommend would be successful, or whether it is even, in all truth, desirable, is questionable. But its appeal lies in two causes. First, it reveals the outrageous absurdities in which leftist thought inevitably has to culminate.\u00a0 Second, it unveils the ominous truth that, in principle, <\/i>the left has no <\/i>reason for not aspiring to control every aspect of human existence. <\/i><\/p>\n
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