When Sen. Joseph Lieberman lost his Connecticut Democratic primary to an anti-war candidate, he used his concession speech to decry the politics of polarization. This was hypocritical because the war hawks, Lieberman included, have gone far in suggesting that criticism of the war policy is tantamount to assisting terrorists.The rest of my op-ed is here at The Future of Freedom Foundation website.
But even if no hypocrisy were involved, the abhorrence of polarization would be absurd. The Bush administration, with Lieberman’s vigorous support, occupies Iraq and has facilitated Israel’s assault on Lebanon. If that doesn’t call for a politics of polarization, what would?
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Yea really, polarization among the political class would be a godsend. But there seems to be a wide consensus that expanding the state is a good thing. The Independent Review had an article a while back about the conservative-liberal coalition to destroy freedom that was pretty revealing. Polarization indeed.
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