Quote of the day 13th November 2024

"Liberals are not the only ones who suffer from blurred vision. But we are especially prone to wishful thinking."

Self-confessed liberal Alan Catzeflis in an article about the US election result which you can read here.

For the avoidance of doubt I have published this quote because I found Catzeflis's views interesting, not because it represents my own,

There was an awful lot of wishful thinking from most of those people on all parts of the political spectrum who were hoping for a different result in that election.

The word "liberal" should also be treated with great caution because it can mean diametrically opposite things on different sides of the Atlantic - in Britain to call someone an "economic liberal" usually means that they believe in free markets and a small state while in the USA it usually means the exact reverse.

I do think that many people on what you might call the liberal left, on both sides of the Atlantic, are indeed especially prone to wishful thinking. I don't think they have a monopoly on it.