THE COMPULSION TO APOLOGIZE

To The Point

Dr. Jack Wheeler
Behind The Lines

"I've written often, such as in Rejecting The Evil Eye, about liberals' fear of envy. This fear is what makes them liberals. Thus the key insight:

Liberalism is not a political ideology or set of beliefs. It is an envy-deflection device, a psychological strategy to avoid being envied. It is the politicalization of envy-appeasement.

Nothing more epitomizes liberals' fear of envy than their compulsion to apologize. Apologize to the world for the existence of exploitative America. Apologize to the Earth for the existence of polluting humanity. Last Sunday (2/25), the Democrat-controlled legislature of Virginia voted to "apologize" for the state's role in slavery.

When you apologize for something that your great-great-great-great grandfather, at the latest, might have done (and most likely not, for the overwhelming majority of Virginia residents are not the descendants of slave owners), you require psychiatric counseling.

Another example of how liberalism is a psychological affliction - a particularly dangerous one when it's the basis of foreign policy.

Which brings us today to a Democrat Congressman from California, 'Moonbat Mike' Honda."
Read more ...