Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Empathy and the Left

Juan Williams thinks he’s defending Obamacare by observing that it has no effect on him and the other members of the Sunday talk show pundit panel. This is the sort of thing that a Republican would be pilloried for saying. . . . Williams shouldn’t get away with that callousness. Where’s the empathy?

Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit replies:
You demonstrate “empathy” by being a Democrat, especially a minority Democrat. As a Republican, you can only demonstrate “empathy” by agreeing with Democrats’ demands, preferably accompanying that agreement with an apology for your own existence.

It's a combination of Messiahism and Hegelian thesis/antithesis/synthesis; it's what Leftists do.

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