LIBERALISM MAKES IT EASIER TO BE BAD

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Human Events:

There are many liberals who lead thoroughly decent lives. And there are conservatives who do not.

 

But that is not the whole issue.

 

There is something about liberalism that is not nearly as true about conservatism. The further left one goes, the more one finds that the ideology provides moral cover for a life that is not moral. While many people left of center lead fine personal lives, many do not. And left-wing ideals enable a person to do that much more than conservative ideals do.

 

There is an easy way to demonstrate this.

 

If a married — or even unmarried — conservative congressman had texted sexual images of himself to young women he did not even know, he would have been called something Anthony Wiener has not been called — a hypocrite.

 

Why? Because conservatives — secular conservatives, not only religious conservatives — are identified with moral values in the personal sphere, and liberals are not. Liberals rarely called Bill Clinton a hypocrite for his extramarital affair while president. George W. Bush would have been pilloried as such.

 

Simply put, we do not generally judge personal conduct the same when it comes to liberals and conservatives.

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