I posted a entry recently from a certain Catholic blog that seemed to imply to oppose the current health care bill or (bills) in their current form was to be lumped into all the evils of American history.
Live the Trinity has a great entry at “You are not merely wrong - you are stupid and evil so shut up”
He has some great thoughts including this quote from National Review
Finally, despite a burgeoning distrust of both the economic and environmental defensibility of the cap-and-trade bill, Obama has proceeded swiftly, pointing to non-existent mandates from the scientific community and the public at large. Again, it would be edifying to the American public if their representatives in the House slowed the frenetic pace of this legislation and drew attention to the disputes over the bill and the science behind it. However, the tripartite formula for technocratic politics — the illusion of immanent crisis, the pretense of public consensus, and the suppression of open debate — has prevented a serious and non-ideological dialogue from emerging.
The real danger of Obama’s technocratic administration lies in its habit of tendentiously recasting serious moral and political debates as misguided arguments about plainly observable empirical facts. Such intellectual self-indulgence preemptively labels all disagreement as uninformed or nefarious and renders democratic process — and all those that demand it — tiresome and frustrating. This transforms every nuanced policy debate into a choice between the light of reason and the darkness of ignorance; this heavy-handed dogmatism inevitably creates a cultural cleavage between the chosen bearers of truth and those who stupidly refuse the gifts bestowed by progress.
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