I’ve added a new term to Power Line’s Lexicon of Contemporary Political Terms:
Consensus: When everyone agrees with the agenda of the left.
Take in John Kerry talking about the need to reach “consensus,” which obviously means agreeing to obey him—but be sure to watch to the very end, when he lets the mask slip about what leftists really think of freedom and our Constitution (just 2 min long):
Note to John Kerry: Your tyrannical instincts are exactly why we have a First Amendment. But also why we have the Second Amendment—it’s the ultimate “break glass in case of emergency.” And aspiring tyrants like Kerry would constitute an emergency if they ever got the power they so plainly crave. As Oakeshott reminded us, “The conjunction of dreaming and ruling generates tyranny.” Spare us from dreamers like Kerry, Al Gore, etc.
P.S. Even in its benign form, “consensus” is overrated. Time once again to recall Margaret Thatcher’s great definition of consensus:
“The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?”
P.S. (2): How is it that John Kerry is still a thing? And what a bullet we dodged in 2004, when we almost made him president. Has there ever been a more pompous and mediocre fathead in American public life?
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