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As I explained with my private property model earlier, it is not a natural right. The Founders were wrong about this, John Locke was wrong about this and so is Mark Levin. In the chapter “On the Constitution” Levin acknowledges this counterargument as made by Cass Sundstein (one of them Harvard Law academics) and then [...]
Continue reading about Liberty and Tyranny – Misinformation on the Constitution
There is good information in the chapter “On the Constitution,” from Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny, and I would like to give credit where it is due. Acknowledging the good information also helps with evaluating the misinformation later. Levin starts out by describing how words matter. If you have been visiting The Middle Class Forum [...]
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I’ve been a deacon, church school director, lay preacher and served on almost every committee of my Church. I give what I can out of my material resources. I also use this giving as a tax deduction. Hey! I’m not stupid! Yet it would not matter to me whether there was a tax break or [...]
Continue reading about Liberty and Tyranny – Confused Religious Liberty
“On Faith and the Founding” is a tricky chapter to deconstruct in Liberty and Tyranny. Without an understanding of Christian faith one is likely to be overwhelmed by Levin’s rhetoric in support of religious liberty. Christianity marks a dramatic turning point in monotheism. Before Christ, God had a chosen people based on culture and lineage. [...]
It’s a given that Levin will use his fictional Statist in every chapter to exploit the vanity, cynicism and apprehensions of his readers. It’s a given that he is backed by the ample resources of the corporate world and has a position of trust connected to the media. The one principle for how we are [...]
Continue reading about Liberty and Tyranny – Confused Morality
In the last entry I stated that Mark Levin focuses more of his second chapter, “Prudence and Progress,” villainizing a bogeyman he calls a Statist (read, Modern Liberal) rather than focusing on explaining his own position. I also explained what Levin’s “ordered liberty” probably means to him, based on a few sparse statements and his [...]
Continue reading about Liberty and Tyranny – Prudent Misinformation Methods
Mark Levin’s second chapter is titled “Prudence and Progress.” Recalling my previous deconstruction, equating Conservative with Liberty is a contradiction, abnormal if you will. Conservatives are primarily for stability and order. Liberty has little meaning unless change results. Think of it this way. The governments of the world could unite to decree that bees everywhere [...]
Continue reading about Liberty and Tyranny – Prudent Misinformation Doctrine
I’ve been doing the deconstruction of Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny for about a month now, including the background materials. That is enough time to gauge interest from readers to my blog. It appears that my best “blogging strategy” would be to limit such posts to once a week. Using my current method that would be [...]
Continue reading about Initial Misinformed Urgency from Liberty and Tyranny
The essence of misinformation is to claim the normal is abnormal and vice-versa. Normally, the main attribute of conservatism is stability. Normally, since the time of Hobbes (and probably before) conservatism aligns itself with established order. Normally, chaos and anarchy are the chief evils to society that the Conservative wishes to thwart. Normally, the Conservative [...]
Continue reading about Liberty and Tyranny – Initial Misinformation Methods
Last week I began with a deconstruction of Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny, going over the three basic types of information (dogma, omission, distortion) found in the first chapter. To recap, Levin takes a dogmatic approach to knowledge and politics, which historically retards progress and prevents learning from experience. A center point of Chapter One [...]
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