"Bob Crantz" wrote in message
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There is a religious left, it's not very big. If you consider
environmentalism a religion then it gets bigger. The left have their own
forms of delusion too. I'm beginning to believe the right's delusions are
more dangerous. Some say the world will end by fire, some say by ice...

Say, that's pretty good. Mind if I use that? Or did you plagiarize that?

In the words of the Great Barry Goldwater:

"Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they
regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own
version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones
who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt,
and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken
course stems from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen.
Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads
to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly
understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to
conformity and then to despotism."

"I cherish a day when our children once again will restore as heroes the
sort of men and women who - unafraid and undaunted - pursue the truth,
strive to cure disease, subdue and make fruitful our natural environment
and produce the inventive engines of production, science, and technology."

"We see, in private property and in economy based upon and fostering
private property, the one way to make government a durable ally of the
whole man, rather than his determined enemy. We see in the sanctity of
private property the only durable foundation for constitutional government
in a free society. And beyond that, we see, in cherished diversity of
ways, diversity of thoughts, of motives and accomplishments. We do not
seek to lead anyone's life for him - we seek only to secure his rights and
to guarantee him opportunity to strive, with government performing only
those needed and constitutionally sanctioned tasks which cannot otherwise
be performed. "

"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.
And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no
virtue."

It's good Barry died when he did. He'd be disappointed with the
sociopolitical climate of today.

Max