Charley Reese Totalitarianism is American liberalism carried to its logical conclusion. America's current liberals, and please don't confuse them with earlier generations who wore that label, think that you can run a society without religion or morality. In other words, decisions will be made on the basis of reason, on the basis of cost-benefit ratios, without regard for any moral consideration. And those decisions will be enforced by the power of government. People cannot be trusted to make their own decisions, the modern liberal inevitably concludes. Well, go ahead and you'll find yourself perfectly aligned with the communists. Does anyone out there think that it is not more economical to execute the hopelessly disabled than to care for them? Of course it's more economical to kill them. Abortion and euthanasia place economics and convenience and productivity ahead of human life. You know, of course, that the Holocaust had its beginning in the euthanasia of the hopelessly insane and retarded. I warn you, however, that it is not a far step from that to deciding that certain people are simply surplus, economically unproductive and, therefore, a drain on society's resources. Let's say that someone has been on welfare three decades. He or she will never be self-supporting, so why not execute them and free the productive members of society from the burden of supporting them? Why continue to arrest and imprison a chronic criminal? Kill him or her and be done with it. A bullet only costs 15 cents. A society without religion and morality is a dangerous society. Who will become its ultimate victims depends entirely on who wields the power and what their eccentricities and prejudices happen to be. It may be ironic but it is not surprising that the Israelis learned from the Holocaust that it is better to be like the Germans than to be like the Jews. They are now the murdering bully boys to the Palestinians. I think it is ridiculous for people who have already decided that it is moral to kill babies in the womb to show some squeamishness about destroying human embryos in a petri dish. That's like some guy saying he didn't mind shooting 6-year-olds but he wasn't sure about 2-year-olds. Hell, man, once you decide to become a child-killer, their ages no longer matter. Or the numbers. Damnation of your soul is completed with the first one. American liberals are likely going to get everything they think they want and then they will discover that what they've created is a hellish, nightmarish society devoid of compassion or kindness or love or mercy. Thomas Jefferson wanted to replace an aristocracy of birth with an aristocracy of merit. Today's liberal wants an aristocracy of mediocrity. Having discarded religion, they really can't think of any reason why a sodomite should not share a tent with a 12-year-old Boy Scout. Science doesn't condemn sodomy. Science is morally neutral. It views sodomy as just another of the human race's many aberrations like necrophilia, a sexual preference for dead bodies, or sadism or masochism. Having decreed egalitarianism, having discarded religion and morality, modern liberalism's only answer to Nature's obvious inequality is to lower standards on everything and to declare everything is permissible. Copyright � 2001, Orlando Sentinel
