Thursday, October 23, 2008

The soft tyranny of feel-goodism

As half the country prepares to vote for the most liberal presidential candidate in history, I thought this quote from C.S. Lewis seemed appropriate:

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

I wonder what awaits us on the other side of November 4th.

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