What starts out as liberal can quickly end up as progressively absurd.

Victor Davis Hanson writes in Town Hall,

...Anyone who doubts that there is an existential man-caused threat to the planet -- requiring the radical and costly reconstruction of the global economy and society -- is considered a "denier," deserving of professional ostracism or worse.

In the eternal search for perfect justice and equality, the logic of equality of result, rather than equality of opportunity, demands that there is always one more group, one more grievance, one more complaint against the shrinking and overwhelmed majority.

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