McCain supporters might well exclaim, ‘May wonders never cease’ upon reading this article from Portugal in favor of the Republican.
From Portugal’s leading business Daily, Expresso, Joao Pereira Coutinho writes in part:
“A friend of mine ordered a shirt through Amazon supporting John McCain. The shirt came, he put it on and he went to work. Nothing could have prepared him for the spectacle that followed: colleagues and friends alike looked at him with frowns of incomprehension and disgust. It was so intolerable that by mid-afternoon, he decided to change so as not to get into any more trouble in an atmosphere that is a mostly artistic, in other words – leftist. … It was precisely this moral arrogance on the left, when coupled with an obvious lack of sense of humor, which made me a person of the right.”
Translated By Brandi Miller
October 27, 2008
Portugal – Expresso – Original Article (Portuguese)
A friend of mine ordered a shirt through Amazon supporting John McCain. The shirt came, he put it on and he went to work. Nothing could have prepared him for the spectacle that followed: colleagues and friends alike looked at him with frowns of incomprehension and disgust. It was so intolerable that by mid-afternoon, he decided to change so as not to get into any more trouble in an atmosphere that is a mostly artistic, in other words – leftist.
The episode is interesting because it reveals the mental framework within which the left usually wallows. I think it was Roger Scruton who summarized it perfectly: when a “conservative” criticizes a “progressive,” he makes the assumption that the adversary is wrong. The criterion for dispute is epistemological, not ethical. But when a “progressive” criticizes a “conservative,” the judgment is moral: and the adversary is simply the enemy.
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