Liberal Motivations

Liberalism is a subject that has fascinated me since college. I was trying to find out what causes someone to believe liberal ideas with such fervor.

I was struck when a journalism major told me that so-and-so was an atheist but that was alright since was a socialist and so he had a heart. Further, this same journalism student told me what I have come to hear repeated constantly ever since in a myriad of circumstances. She chose journalism to "make the world a better place"

When I heard Evan Sayet's first speech his main point was the desire to be indiscriminate. Very powerful idea, and it seems to resonate throughout the entire ideology. His second speech is very powerful and helpful to this analysis the main thrust there is why liberals choose evil, failed and wrong.

His second speech lead me to conclude that the leftist analysis regarding indiscriminateness must pervade their entire ideology. Some call this Moral Equivalence, but it goes beyond mere moral distinctions, the equivalence attaches to people, things and countries. The logical extension of this indiscriminateness is egalitarianism. When carried out to its most ridiculous level it becomes malignant egalitarianism. The absolute belief that there are no absolutes and the firm resolve that everything, person or country is as valuable as every other thing person or country. The malignant egalitarian will equate the right of Iran to possess nuclear weapons with the US's possession of nuclear weapons. A great example is that American exceptionalism is the same as Iranian exceptionalism. They will equate abu graib under Sadam Hussein with all the horrible maiming and killing with the abu graib abuses of a few miscreant soldiers. They will offer themselves as "human sheilds" dictators and then be surprised when the dictator wants to place them in front of military assets. To Malignant Egalitarians there is no, there can be no objective truth, only subjective truth.

To what degree someone subscribes to malignant egalitarianism will greatly determine how liberal or left someone's beliefs will be.