The Patriot Post® · Thursday Opinion

Best of Right Opinion

• Victor Davis Hanson: The Rapid ‘Progress’ of Progressivism
• Ed Feulner: Preventing ‘The Tyranny of the Majority’
• Cal Thomas: Only Fools Believe North Korea
• Veronique de Rugy: Uncle Sam Continues to Stick His Head in the Sand on Entitlements
• Tony Perkins: Voters Stampede to Record Turnout in Texas

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Opinion in Brief

Victor Davis Hanson: “In the eternal search for perfect justice and equality, what starts out as liberal can quickly end up as progressively absurd. The logic of equality of result, rather than equality of opportunity, demands that there is always one more group, one more grievance, one more complaint against the shrinking and overwhelmed majority. The conservative ancient Athenian philosopher Plato once made his megaphone Socrates lament that in ancient Athens’ nonstop search for perfect equality, soon even the horses would have to be accorded the same privileges as humans. Socrates’ fantasy was an exaggeration intended as a reminder about the craziness of always-creeping mandated equality. Now it seems not far from the mainstream positions of animal-rights groups. If we insist that the human experience is not tragic and cyclical but instead must always bend on some predetermined arc to absolute equality and fairness, then unfortunate results must follow. One, what is welcomed as progressive on Monday is derided as intolerable on Tuesday. … Second, when rules and regulations are always watered down as too exclusionary, the descent to no rules is quite short. The ultimate destination is nihilism and chaos. We see that now in Venezuela and Cuba — and increasingly in California as well.”