Never Heard of Such
I’m not sure if I’ve ever read him do it before, but John Hinderaker goes PG on the filthy hippies:
It is the luxury of knowing they are bullshitting that allows American liberals to claim that their freedoms are going up in smoke and that dissent is being suppressed, when in fact, “dissent” is socially mandated in polite society from Manhattan to Marin County.
I would add this parallel: any survey of Europeans you look at will say that they think the United States is the biggest danger to world peace, worse than North Korea or the Islamofascists. But they don’t mean it. If they did, they would be clamoring for their own countries to re-arm. But the very people who claim to believe that the U.S. is bent on world domination are the same ones who don’t want their own governments to spend a dollar on defense. They are entirely content to let us keep the peace. Which means that what they tell pollsters about threats to world peace, like what liberals say about threats to their civil liberties, is, to put it politely, disingenuous.
Ha, ha. Bullshitting. But it’s true: if these degenerates really did believe that we’re living through the Fourth Reich, the vast majority of them wouldn’t have the nerve to speak as they now do. I know that for a stone fact.
