'Secular Liberalism as Consensus'

Rod Dreher, on the conflict between traditional conservatism and secular liberalism:

"In our culture, the framework for these arguments favors secular liberalism.

As James Kalb explains in his important new book, The Tyranny of Liberalism -which, despite the red-meat title, is an intellectually invigorating read - liberalism 'has become an immensely powerful social reality,' one so dominant 'that it has become invisible.'

'To oppose it in any basic way is to act incomprehensibly, in a way explicable, it is thought, only by reference to irrationality, ignorance or evil,' Kalb writes.

'The whole of the nonliberal past is comprehensively blackened. Traditional ways are presented as the simple negation of unquestionable goods liberalism favors.'"

There is absolutely no question of the veracity of those words.

It's the same way Dems/Lefties/"Progressives"/True Believers frame their "scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming" nonsense.

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