It’s just as bad when liberals do it

Booman soon to be a social scold

He writes,

I think we need to talk about the social problem. . . .

We need to figure out what this country is really all about.

What it should be all about.

He explains,

I think progressives need a moral narrative beyond fairness, beyond equal opportunity, and beyond license.

We need a moral narrative for our role as citizens and for our county's role in the world.

We need a vision for de-fracturing some significant part of our culture and giving it higher collective purpose. 

Among the most repulsive features of people who care about politics is their casual totalitarianism.

Control freaks on steroids, most of them.

Every bit as bad, some of them and in their own ways, as the Islamists tearing up the Muslim world, these days.

And it’s by no means only the clericalist conservatives who aspire not only to control the moral outlook of the nation but to define a mission, a global mission, for our country and lead us all on it.

This is something the libertarians surely have right.

Freedom is not being drafted - figuratively but more especially literally - into some national mission cooked up by someone convinced that life, or anyway our national life, has no meaning without one – and that our national life definitely needs to have meaning.

Or that his nasty little "moral narrative" demands it.

Didn't I warn you morality is about coercion, force, and bloodshed? 

Yes, I did.

Freedom is most certainly not being subjected to somebody’s vision of a so-called “higher collective purpose.”

Democrats (small “d”) like me want to empower people (including ourselves, thanks) against those who would oppress or exploit them, but otherwise let them be.

Liberals like Booman want to give people marching orders.

And, come to that, far too often this is literally true.

So great is their will to power that liberal globalism includes an unwavering commitment to military meddling, everywhere.

Amazing how far our freedom relies on the natural indifference of others, isn’t it?

People who don't give a hang about politics or about what we are doing?

Or whether our lives measure up to their standards of meaning, purpose, or morality?

Man’s lack of interest in his fellow man doesn’t only have a downside.