{"id":26811,"date":"2013-08-01T20:57:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T00:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=26811"},"modified":"2013-08-01T20:58:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T00:58:12","slug":"liberalism-makes-it-easier-to-be-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2013\/08\/liberalism-makes-it-easier-to-be-bad.html","title":{"rendered":"Liberalism Makes It Easier to be Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Dennis Prager \u2013 July 31, 2013<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We do not generally judge personal conduct the same when it comes to liberals and conservatives…<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span>My sense was that the radicals’ commitment to “humanity,” to “peace,” and to “love” gave them license to feel good about themselves without having to lead a good life. Their vocal opposition to war and to racism provided them with all the moral self-esteem they wanted…But every conservative politician knows that should he be caught, his positions on issues not only do not provide moral cover for his conduct, those very positions condemn it.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

There are many liberals who lead thoroughly decent lives. And there are conservatives who do not.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But that is not the whole issue.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There is something about liberalism that is not nearly as true about conservatism. The further left one goes, the more one finds that the ideology provides moral cover for a life that is not moral. While many people left of center lead fine personal lives, many do not. And left-wing ideals enable a person to do that much more than conservative ideals do.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Censored – Anthony Weiner TMZ<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is an easy way to demonstrate this.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If a married — or even unmarried — conservative congressman had texted sexual images of himself to young women he did not even know, he would have been called something Anthony Wiener has not been called — a hypocrite.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Why? Because conservatives — secular conservatives, not only religious conservatives — are identified with moral values in the personal sphere, and liberals are not.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There are many liberals who lead thoroughly decent lives. And there are conservatives who do not.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But that is not the whole issue.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There is something about liberalism that is not nearly as true about conservatism. The further left one goes, the more one finds that the ideology provides moral cover for a life that is not moral. While many people left of center lead fine personal lives, many do not. And left-wing ideals enable a person to do that much more than conservative ideals do.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There is an easy way to demonstrate this.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If a married — or even unmarried — conservative congressman had texted sexual images of himself to young women he did not even know, he would have been called something Anthony Wiener has not been called — a hypocrite.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Why? Because conservatives — secular conservatives, not only religious conservatives — are identified with moral values in the personal sphere, and liberals are not. Liberals rarely called Bill Clinton a hypocrite for his extramarital affair while president. George W. Bush would have been pilloried as such.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Simply put, we do not generally judge personal conduct the same when it comes to liberals and conservatives.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Just a tiny smattering of the huge numbers of Weiner’s Texts to women. He often used the name “Carlos Danger”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Both liberals and conservatives know this. As a result, as noted, liberal social positions can provide moral cover for immoral behavior in a way that conservative positions cannot.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Though there are many sincere liberals, it is likely that this ability to provide moral cover for a less than moral life is one source of liberalism’s appeal.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I first thought about this when I saw how the left-wing students at my graduate school, Columbia University, behaved. Aside from their closing down classes, taking over office buildings, and ransacking professors’ offices, I saw the way in which many of them conducted themselves in their personal lives. Most of them had little sense of personal decency, and lived lives of narcissistic hedonism. Women who were involved with leftist groups have told of how poorly they were treated. And one suspects that they would have been treated far better by conservative, let alone religious, men on campus.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

My sense was that the radicals’ commitment to “humanity,” to “peace,” and to “love” gave them license to feel good about themselves without having to lead a good life. Their vocal opposition to war and to racism provided them with all the moral self-esteem they wanted.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Ted Kennedy (aged 32) left Mary Jo Kopechne (aged 28) to drown after he drove off a bridge in Chappaquiddick, Massachusetts, on July 18, 1969. He swam free and left the scene, not reporting the accident within 9 hours.\u00a0 Not one serious consequence ever followed him. He was utterly forgiven by the mass media, was never seriously questioned by the liberal-left press, and never condemned by any Democrat!\u00a0 He pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident after causing injury and received a 2-month suspended jail sentence – – because when you’re a Democrat, a liberal, it’s different!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Consider the example of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. He had been expelled from college for paying someone to take his exams. His role in the death of a woman with whom he spent an evening would have sent almost anyone without his family name to prison — or would have at least resulted in prosecution for negligent homicide. And he spent decades using so many women in so public a way that stories about his sex life were routinely told in Washington. Read the 9,000-word 1990 article in GQ by Michael Kelly, who a few years later became the editor of the New Republic.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When this unimpressive man started espousing liberal positions, speaking passionately about the downtrodden in society, it recalled the unimpressive students who marched on behalf of civil rights, peace and love.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It is quite likely that Ted Kennedy came to believe in the positions that he took. But I also suspect that he found espousing those positions invaluable to his self-image and to his public image: “Look at what a moral man I am after all.” And liberal positions were all that mattered to the left and to the liberal media that largely ignored such lecherous behavior as the “waitress sandwich” he made in a Washington, D.C. restaurant with another prominent liberal, former Senator Chris Dodd.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to knowing that liberal positions provide moral cover for immoral personal behavior, liberals know that their immoral behavior will be given more of pass than exactly the same behavior would if done by a conservative.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Clinton’s Approval Ratings remained high all during every one of all the scandals, the Impeachment process and in spite of all the accusations leveled against him, even when Juanita Broaddrick accused him of raping her.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Women’s groups provided Bill Clinton with enormous moral capital because he supported their feminist agenda. One leading feminist famously said she would be happy to get on her knees and pleasure Clinton thanks to his pro-choice position on abortion.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Conservative politicians have the same sex drive as liberal politicians, the same marital problems and the same ubiquitous temptations and opportunities. And some will therefore engage in extramarital sex. But every conservative politician knows that should he be caught, his positions on issues not only do not provide moral cover for his conduct, those very positions condemn it. There is no benefit to the conservative sinner in being a conservative. There is great benefit to the liberal sinner in being a liberal.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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