This was the Miami Herald’s endorsement of Charlie Crist. And that’s how the paper decided to begin it.
“Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Florida is a place of meanness. It’s a place where dissent is muzzled, where personal rights triumph over the greater good, where winning is more important than unity — especially if that victory moves him closer to a White House run.”
All rhetoric is revealing, some more so than others.
The Miami Herald unthinkingly launching its endorsement of Crist and hit piece on DeSantis by attacking the latter for running a state “where personal rights triumph over the greater good” is revealing of the entire insane mindset at work here.
Forget DeSantis, Crist and the race for the moment. We’ve reached the point where a major newspaper that is at least pretending to reach moderates thinks that denouncing the idea that individual rights should triumph over the greater good is an indictment, not an endorsement.
It was really not all that long ago that liberals would have at least paid service to the opposite idea. But COVID craziness broke a lot of brains, but in some cases it also exposed longstanding agendas.
The various newspaper endorsements of Democrats and attacks on their Republican opponents like DeSantis tell us nothing about the Republicans, but quite a bit about the media and the zeitgeist it’s channeling. Call it a Freudian slip or a trial balloon, but this is who they are.
Won’t someone save us from having individual rights in the name of the greater good.
And who decides what the greater good is? Corruptocrats looking to enrich themselves.
What the Miami Herald is ultimately attacking is SELFISHNESS. And are we not all taught from birth that selfishness is immoral?
Individual rights and their corollary, private property rights, are based on a moral code of rational selfishness, there is NO other way to morally defend individual rights and private property rights.
The “common good” is a euphemism for altruism, collectivism, and socialism. Collectivism and socialism are based on the moral code of altruism and self-sacrifice.
If selfishness is actually immoral then individual rights are actually immoral. If altruism and self-sacrifice are actually virtuous and moral then Capitalism is immoral and Socialism is moral.
The practical results of Capitalism versus Socialism are irrelevant, they will not matter to most men. Morality will always defeat practicality. The vast majority of individuals need to be, or need to pretend to be, or need to deceive themselves that they are moral to achieve and maintain a sense of self-esteem, a sense that they are worthy of life and being alive. Worthy of being called men and not worms.
If men are convinced that selfishness is immoral they will ultimately reject individual rights, private property rights, and Capitalism. If men are convinced that altruism and self-sacrifice are the highest virtues and duties they can practice they will flock to collectivism and socialism.
Ayn Rand is telling the whole world the objective moral TRUTH.
What a load of bullshit.
There’s no other way libs could look at it. Their view of Desantis mirrors their economic views because there’s a system to administer and their class is the class to do it.
The importance of DeSantis is that he’s succeeded on the issues and the rhetoric. This is why I worry about his future with GOP.
This “unity” thing dems are big on now shows they consider themselves near enough to the end game of socialism to cast away their old mask of the freedom and ‘individuality'(there are no more dogmatic lockstep herd critters than them). Now they must ostracise and suppress those with differing opinions.
“Personal Rights Triumph Over the Greater Good”
It is called freedom over slavery.
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
You don’t think the Founding Fathers were thinking about the greater good? Go back to school.