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Well, people who think like George Lakoff, that’s who; enlightened souls who can judge behavior and mandate social change in such a way that justice is perfect every time. In other words, Jesus would return to earth to run the United States. (Jesus the man—not the deity. Separation of church and state, you see.)
    Herewith some other pearls of wisdom from George Lakoff, the Yoda of the S-P movement:
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    â€¢ “There is no such thing as a self made man.” (All success is due to societal assistance.)
    â€¢ “The United States has systematically promoted a terrorism of its own…”
    â€¢ “In the ‘nurturant’ parent model, discipline arises not from painful physical punishment, but through the promotion of responsible behavior via empathetic connection…” (Translation: Lakoff would outlaw spanking.)
    â€¢ “In the ‘nurturant’ form of religion, your spiritual experience has to do with your connection to other people and the world…” (This means the “higher power” concept is out; atheism is the way to go and would be subtly promoted by the government.)
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    Interestingly, the very far-left
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
is pushing Lakoff’s central societal vision, that the “rich” owe everybody else, hard. On January 4, 2006, columnist Harris Green wrote: “Whatever the rich receive, it is not due entirely to their own talent and effort, as many would have us believe. They owe their parents. They owe the teachers and counselors and clergy who taught them and civilized them. They owe the farmers and truckers and grocery store workers who put food on their tables, and the firefighters and police officers and emergency medical technicians who protected them from harm and further harm. The list of people they owe is endless. Therefore, whatever success they achieve in life is due mostly to the talents and efforts of a legion of people.”
    This is standard-issue communist thought. The rich (affluent) owe everybody else, and therefore the government has a right to take assets from the rich (affluent) to pay the debt. The S-P movement will vehemently deny any sympathy with communist doctrine, but that is as big a lie as telling a successful person that the guy who sold him breakfast deserves part of his income that day. This secular-progressive belief in income redistribution and government seizure of private property is extremely important to keep in mind.
    Finally, it’s worth noting that Yoda Lakoff generally steers clear of issues involved with the abortion movement. I guess it’s hard to find anything “nurturant” about that.
    Now—and this may surprise you—I do not think George Lakoff is evil, or even devious. He is simply wrong, and history has proved that over and over again. There is no doubt in my mind that he and the S-P foot soldiers who follow him believe they own the high moral ground. In theory, you see, the S-P movement has it all: equality, humanism, generosity, and universal empathy. That’s the theory. But in the real world, the S-P platform would be impossible to carry out because of one inconvenient natural impediment: human nature.
    If greed, venality, fanaticism, sociopathy, sloth, and emotional illness did not exist, then the S-P vision might have a chance at success. But as we’ve seen throughout history, utopian philosophies are impossible to impose and totalitarianism is often the result of trying. Hello, Soviet Union, Cuba, and Maoist China.
    Professor Lakoff is not some wide-eyed nut sending out Marxist propaganda on a low-rent Web site. He’s a realist. He readily admits his S-P movement has so far failed to win over the hearts and minds of the majority of Americans. He blames this on the dishonest conservative movement that intimidates politicians, and on the sheer stupidity of the regular