The pattern is clear - modern liberalism is increasingly hostile to democracy - liberals are all for some vague, highly idealized and ultimately unworkable notion of 'cultural diversity' but when it comes to diversity of beliefs or ideas and the debate that comes with it they have no use for that - indeed, they see such a thing as offensive and threatening [microaggression! The bad man's ideas are hurting me!].
But of course they're right regardless of how wrong they are - for an absolutist belief system, which modern liberalism is, there's nothing more dangerous than a fact or truth that does not fit the narrative so assiduously being constructed - therefore free speech and debate are things to be feared. The idealist begins with what they want to believe is true and then sets about making up the 'proofs' to demonstrate it; the empiricist starts with what is and then sets about acquiring the facts to understand and explain it.
Clearly, modern liberalism is increasingly absolutist and driven by a need to believe certain things regardless of whether or not those things are true according to some reasonable and objective norm - reasonable objectivity is of no use to the mindset and agenda of progressives - and thus their increasingly irrational and intolerant behaviour.
Look at recently unearthed letter from former EU officials urging the current EU foreign minister and Kerry to ignore the results of the election in Israel and force a resolution on Netanyahu and to hell with what the Israeli voter thinks - apparently a democracy is only a true democracy if it agrees with what liberals want to believe - otherwise, liberals reserve the right to impose their will on it - these people simply cannot abide the notion that their worldview may be wrong, misguided, ill conceived - they cannot tolerate the thought that they may be wrong about something which is why they're so quick to embrace an intolerance masquerading as enlightenment in order to get their way.
But of course they're right regardless of how wrong they are - for an absolutist belief system, which modern liberalism is, there's nothing more dangerous than a fact or truth that does not fit the narrative so assiduously being constructed - therefore free speech and debate are things to be feared. The idealist begins with what they want to believe is true and then sets about making up the 'proofs' to demonstrate it; the empiricist starts with what is and then sets about acquiring the facts to understand and explain it.
Clearly, modern liberalism is increasingly absolutist and driven by a need to believe certain things regardless of whether or not those things are true according to some reasonable and objective norm - reasonable objectivity is of no use to the mindset and agenda of progressives - and thus their increasingly irrational and intolerant behaviour.
Look at recently unearthed letter from former EU officials urging the current EU foreign minister and Kerry to ignore the results of the election in Israel and force a resolution on Netanyahu and to hell with what the Israeli voter thinks - apparently a democracy is only a true democracy if it agrees with what liberals want to believe - otherwise, liberals reserve the right to impose their will on it - these people simply cannot abide the notion that their worldview may be wrong, misguided, ill conceived - they cannot tolerate the thought that they may be wrong about something which is why they're so quick to embrace an intolerance masquerading as enlightenment in order to get their way.
