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Who will rid us of this troublesome priest?

February 7, 2008 - 1:50 pm - by Roger Kimball
Thomas Collins
2008-02-08 09:09:43

Thank God (so to speak) for hirsute lefties such as Williams. The Williams types allow the rest of us to see clearly (if we have any vision at all) to what depths multiculturalism is leading the West. In a sense, I feel bad for Williams types. Their vision of a multicultural society (peaceful coexistence while everyone makes nice to each other in the therapeutic state) is not a sustainable form of interaction among humans. The closest humans have come to taming their tendencies towards fickleness, tyranny and barbarism is in Western liberal (“liberal” in the classical liberal sense)democracies. These democracies are woefully imperfect. These imperfections allow Williams types to attempt to demoralize citizens of Western democracies with a utopian vision of a better world. But their utopian vision simply leads to tyranny or barbarism. Our woefully imperfect democracies are the best we can do on earth. Let’s hope more of our political, social and spiritual leaders wake up to this reality.