No wonder the MSM and the left (but I repeat myself) wadded their panties into such a tight bunch when the Tea Party emerged — they know better than anyone that while it’s not easy, how entirely possible it is to reshape society and how fragile their own hold on power could ultimately be.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Contrary to the tenets of liberalism, not every change is irreversible
Ed Driscoll has written a wonderful short essay on the liberal lie that not being able to go back means you can’t go forward differently, either.
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one of the cons he notes is the left’s selective utterance of the phrase, “You can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.”
ReplyDeleteI have never heard that phrase before, ever. Must be an American thing. :)
That style of argument in general is a form of Whig History - it's been inherited today by the political left, but all sides of politics tend to use this argument when it suits. Bloody Whigs! Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em...
I believe that expression is, indeed, American.
ReplyDeleteAnd it's true. I spent a fruitless evening testing the hypothesis.
But you know what? Somebody put that toothpaste in the tube in the first place.
ReplyDeleteThat's a fact.
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