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June 16, 2006

Why Does The Left Hate Bush So Much?

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John Hawkins says that the Left will give you every reason in the book for it, but in his opinion, most of it is really all about just four things ...

John's reasons are likely on target, but don't address the fundamental basis for their hatred and irrational behavior. Back in 2003 Adam Wolfson did a piece in NRO in which he addresed the question of why liberals hate Bush so much. Of all the reasons I've read, I think his just might be on target - especially in regard to the War on Terror and Iraq. The nutcase moonbats find it impossible to believe that terrorism even exists in the first place:

[...] So what is it about George W. Bush that drives the Left utterly mad? Liberals have given many justifications for their righteous anger: He "stole" the 2000 election; he's too Texan, too Christian, just too dumb; he struts and talks like a yokel. Others complain bitterly of his "far-right" policies: His support for a ban on partial-birth abortion, his opposition to human cloning and gay marriage, and his tax cuts and faith-based initiatives. And, of course, there's the war in Iraq -- always the war in Iraq.

These explanations no doubt have something to do with why the Left despises Bush. But there is more to their hatred than is generally understood -- something more fundamental is at work. Almost all modern liberal thought begins with the bedrock assumption that humans are basically good. Within this moral horizon something such as terrorism cannot really exist, except as a manifestation of injustice, or unfairness, or lack of decent social services. Whether knowingly or not Bush has directly challenged this core liberal belief -- and for this he is not easily forgiven.

(...) The Left vilifies Bush because he insists on calling a spade a spade, and in so doing threatens to bring down their entire intellectual edifice. Even after the horrors of the 20th century, the Left has yet to recover from its Rousseau-induced hangover. Liberals still insist on seeing human nature as basically good. Nothing is more offensive to such a mentality, not Hussein's torture chambers, not al Qaeda's wanton killing of innocent life, than one who dares to speak so plainly of "evildoers."

John has accurately itemized the Lib's excuses, but the core of their hatred lies in their fundamental inability to understand the evil in people that do evil, and that the Islamists are just as happy killing liberals as they are conservatives.

Posted by Richard at June 16, 2006 4:11 PM

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