On Sep 29, 2008, at 2:49 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> How long did you pause before accepting the Eliotian cliche, "The
> last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for
> the wrong reason"?
I hadn't realized that that was a cliche - I can't imagine that one in ten thousand would recognize it. That aside, they did it out of ideological consistency - government bad, markets good. The left, which presumably doesn't share that worldview, is operating out of what? Some emotional and braindead anti-elitism.
Doug