Means and Ends

Remember when Mitt Romney was mocked for saying he was seeking binders full of qualified female appointees? Here are the new cabinet appointees by the man who was too good to worry about binders.

Well, you see, it is now about merit. Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish explains that

Modern American Liberalism is the movement of a wealthy white upper class... It even occasionally brings in more exotic figures, like Barack Obama, so long as they have gone to the right schools and share their values... Liberals champion multiculturalism, they enact diversity requirements and push through immigration, and then they send their children to private schools and buy houses in white neighborhoods.

If you've ever set foot in a liberal stronghold, then you can already recognize the very expensive casual wear, the cars with progressive bumper stickers, the beaming helicoptered children, the reusable bags and the other markings of the American upper class.

Remember 9-11? Here is a photo of Dick Cheney and his advisers on that day. It was about merit.

Daniel Greenfield continues,

Hypocrisy is the outcome, but in a totalitarian system it's also the point. When there are too many rules, then power becomes the privilege of not having to abide by them. And hypocrites are usually the loudest shouters on any given issue, because loudly denouncing everyone else is the surest way to advance up the ladder and to avoid being denounced for their own shortcomings.

The issue is a means. Diversity is a means of creating a base that is dependent on the liberal elite and loyal to them. So are unions, and just about every liberal policy there is. And the means cannot be used to subvert the ends.

Read more here: http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2013/01/you-cannot-be-more-liberal-than-liberal.html