One of the main goals of liberals seems to be to turn the outrageous into the normal. It’s a nihilistic instinct, seemingly meant to destroy traditions, cultures and common sense.
Andy McCarthy gives a good example, one with dire consequences, the notion of reading enemy combatants Miranda rights:
I hate to say I told you so, but this has been coming for three years — ever since the McCain amendment. Everybody pooh-poohed it because it sounds too absurd. Alien combatants having constitutional rights used to sound absurd too. So did al Qaeda having Geneva Convention rights. So did the U.S. courts entertaining lawsuits by the enemy against the officials Congress authorized to fight the war. It all sounds crazy … until it happens.
