The New York Times' Ross Douthat is joining CBS News and 60 Minutes.
But before the only sane mind leaves The Times, he gave us this clip with him talking to Yale Law School's Samuel Moyn about young people voting.
It's just about the perfect clip to summarize the leftist worldview:
Moyn: I've gotten in hot water for proposing we consider over-weighting the votes of younger people, or assigning the youngest eligible voters proxy-votes for the unrepresented children of our country β
Douthat: Why not assign them to those children's parents?
Moyn: Well because there's a divergence in interest from parents and children and I think that it's likelier young people, not people who are raising families, will have the best insight into the interests of children β
Douthat: I think that's daft. I think it's absurd to imagine that a 24-year-old recent college graduate has a better assessment of the interests of my own children than I do.
Douthat really held back here, but that was THE most emotion I've ever seen from him.
Calling it "daft" and "absurd" to give stupid woke college students extra power at the ballot box because they represent children, even though they have no children of their own, is beyond insane.
There's a quote attributed to Orwell that would apply here, I think.
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
The idea of "liberation" from "oppression" is baked into the entire spectrum of leftwing ideology.
Idiots like Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx saw civilization and its norms (faith, marriage, family, civic duty, music, law, and traditions) as oppressive.
The solution was to "free" the individual from the "chains" of society that kept him down.
Back to Moyn:
I think parents generally confuse the interests of their family with the interests of their children. And part of our goal, I think as parents, but also as a society, is trying to make sure that children aren't the hostages of their parents.
This exact line of thought is why the Soviets encouraged the "liberation" of children from their parents, telling them that their duty was to a higher, more liberal purpose (serving the State by snitching on their families).
This is the same reason woke school administrators think they are on the #RightSideOfHistory by hiding a kid's "gender identity" from the parents. The liberal worldview makes self-autonomy, or freedom of choice and consent, THE most important part of all reality.
This makes them ask if all boundaries and restrictions are actually evil.
(There's a famous snake in a famous garden who did the same thing.)
If you see structures, social classes, and institutions as oppressive, it leads you to believe that kids need to be "freed" from their families, and that is one of the most destructive ideas ever invented.
A few reactions:
There are thousands of tenured Ivy League professors and lawyers like Samuel Moyn who are controlling all our institutions.
An extremely frightening thought.
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