Legislated Morality?

Have you ever wondered why leftists are so intractable? Refusing to concede on any point?

Have you ever wondered why leftists are so intractable? Why they see things that are one way and loudly and confidently assert that the thing is actually the opposite? If you’re like many conservatives, the frustration of being unable to get your leftist relative to concede they are wrong, no matter how much evidence you throw at them, is a familiar experience. But why is your evidence insufficient? Why won’t they even believe the evidence of their own eyes? It is because they have a worldview that is completely incompatible with facts and the real world. The conservative worldview is fundamentally incompatible with the leftist one, something Rush has been saying for a long time.

“When you hear about the “Culture War”, ladies and gentlemen, know that this is what it’s all about. It’s a war of competing ideas. On one side you have people who believe in living by a set of divinely inspired moral absolutes—or, at the very least, they believe that following such a moral code represents the best way to avoid chaos and instability. On the other side, you have people who insist that morality is simply a personal decision. Any attempt to enforce it is viewed as oppression. Quite simply, many liberals believe that efforts to adhere to and enforce behavioral rights and wrongs is simply the powerful in society attempting to force their views on the “victims” of society, rather than what it is: an attempt to maintain the standards that have evolved and survived throughout human civilization and which produce a quality life”[1]

Rush understood the mindset behind the left. For the left, behavior and morals are subjective. Whatever you want to do is fine, society and decency be hanged. Of course, the left does not actually believe this because, if they did, they would not resent and persecute people who disagree with them. They have morals and standards; they just are not the traditional morals and standards.