Despite my animus toward the left, I cannot fault any of them for their belief in the essential goodness and nobility of humankind and the power of good intentions. They credit Homo sapiens with a great deal of strength and power, perhaps more than we humans actually have; as the global-warming debate shows quite clearly, the Left thinks that we all have in our hands the power to kill the world and the power to save it. These are not ideals to which I am fundamentally opposed.
My main beef with the left, I suppose, is their naivete about the cold hard facts of reality. Like them, I believe human beings (and the world at large) can be improved. Unlike them, I do NOT believe that humankind or the world can be PERFECTED or single-handedly, decisively SAVED, especially not overnight or over the course of a single presidential administration.
What the left needs to get through their heads is that the fate of the planet is NOT entirely in our hands, and that mankind cannot become perfect– we can only try to be better.
