I love the oxymoron: “ideological extremism.”

Almost as funny as Obama’s non-ideologial ideology.

To quote Dr. Harry Binswanger:

“Nothing is more dogmatically ideological than branding your opponents as “ideologues.” Ideology is inescapable. Everyone has an ideology—i.e., a set of abstract principles regarding how the world works and what is right. Some ideologies are true, some are false. But that’s not how second-handers see things. They feel, “I merely report the self-evident; those other guys are denying the self-evident; they must be in the grip of some prejudice to be so blind to what’s self-evident.” By “self-evident” they means: “printed right there in Paul Krugman’s column.”

‘Extreme’–”being in or attaining the greatest or highest degree” (AHD)–would in this context mean, ‘most consistent.’

You know, like the ideology of Jefferson, Washington, Henry, Madison and Adams: extreme liberty–extreme individualism–an extreme recognition of the inviolate nature of individual rights.

Or, if you’d rather, like Goldwater: “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice…”

We are witnessing an age borne of dogmatic uncertainty and of the absolutism of relativism–a world permeated by Hume’s moral agnosticism, defined only by Kant’s ethics of self-sacrificing duty and Hegel’s world collectivism.

So to, ‘Shut up, he explained,’ please add: ‘And stop trying to think objectively.’

Or, to put it bluntly: “Brothers, you *all*–right, left, Libertarian and in-between–asked for it.”