I love liberalism. I love liberals. I married a liberal. Almost all of my best friends are liberals. But sometimes liberals can be horribly wrong. Let's try to understand why!
A fantastic example of liberals off the deep end is seen in the current liberal hand wringing over the fate of National Public Radio. I have had multitudinous liberal friends plea that I sign on to petitions to stop the federal de-funding of NPR. This is wildly strange.
I won't get started on the details of what de-funding NPR really entails, such as the fact that NPR actually doesn't have dedicated federal funding to speak of. We all know what we're talking about is the principle of a thing. "Why, how dare they..."
Let's visualize an average liberal and try to walk him through the decision whether to sign on to such a petition. For the sake of concreteness we should give our average liberal a name. My conservative friends clamor for "Ivan." No offense intended, but, they're all a bunch of out-of-touch freak buckets who think they're reincarnations of Joe McCarthy or Roy Cohn. Like Reagan, they spent the 1980s in a delirium. They think a Russian wrote The Rights of Man. So I'll call my average liberal "Steve" instead.
Steve keeps NPR on in the background at all times, only turning it down during Car Talk. Steve likes to get high while listening to Fresh Air. Steve has noticed that NPR news coverage has not been as liberal lately as it was during, say, the Carter administration. But he clings to NPR anyway because it isn't shrill conservative talk radio