An engraving of a Quaker meeting in Colonial America
Our fellow travelers on the conservative side of the political spectrum are generally great champions of the principle of liberty, though it seems they often advocate for applying this principle inconsistently in favor of the rich and powerful and their rights to use property and conduct business as they wish, even at the expense of the rest of us. Unfortunately, we on the progressive side are just as guilty of inconsistency in applying humanistic principles like the Golden Rule.
We on the left are quick to tar those on the right with believing in the bastard corollary of that Rule which is sometimes stated as, “He who has the gold makes the rules”, yet we are guilty of forgetting that how we attempt
