6. Connect the dots. The most outspoken advocates of the No Rules Club are the members of the Democrat Party. The are just fine with gambling, abortion, adultery, illegitimacy, the divorce rate, drugs, crime, any sort of deviance. They stake out a clear moral position only on the issue of slavery…of course, when it mattered, they were on the wrong side of that, too.
Coulter
7. Let’s be clear: being opposed to any or all of these ‘hobbies’ listed above is not the same as opposing freedom, or liberty.
Here is Ms. Phillips explaining that:
"Classical liberalism,
[conservatism today] the optimistic doctrine that gave us liberty, democracy, progress, was a moral project. It held that human society could always better itself by encouraging the good and diminishing the bad. It rested, therefore, on a very clear understanding that
there was a higher cause than self-realization: that there were such things as
right and wrong and that the former should be preferred over the latter.
But the belief that autonomous individuals had the right to make subjective judgment about what was right for them in pursuit of their
unchallengeable entitlement to happiness destroyed that understanding. Progressives interpreted liberty as license, thus destroying the moral rules that make freedom a virtue."
Melanie Phillips, “The World Turned Upside Down.”