So now Ellis Washington thinks he’s Socrates.
In his Jan. 29 WorldNetDaily column, Washington does one of his “symposiums” in which he purports to examine issues via the Socratic method of the dialectic, “with the ultimate principle of the dialogue being Veritas – Truth.” The problem here is that Washington is no Socrates — we’re pretty sure that Socrates wouldn’t make as many flamboyantly wrong claims as Washington does — and Washington’s “Socrates” tends to go off on political rants that sound a lot like, you know, Ellis Washington.
So, in his column “symposium” on divine command theory — “Is what is good, good because God commands it, or does God command it because it is good?” — “Socrates” rants about liberal politics:
Applying the Euthyphro dilemma to modern America politics, for more than 100 years the progressive revolution has essentially removed God from the marketplace of ideas and replaced “God” with the “god” of humanism or the idea that man is the center and arbiter of all things. Therefore, all public policies are not judged constitutional, moral or true, but whether they are for the common good. Theodore Roosevelt’s “Square Deal,” FDR’s New Deal and welfare state, Truman’s “Fair Deal, LBJ’s Great Society and Obama’s New Deal, Part 2, all confiscated and spent trillions of taxpayers’ money to improve the human condition, yet in all respects society is more ignorant, decadent, alienated and poverty-stricken than preceding generations of the past 100 years.
So why did these tyrants pervert the Constitution and make their own citizens slaves to the federal government?
Gee, that doesn’t very Socratic to us.
As we’ve previously noted, Washington’s “Socrates” has hurled ad hominem Ku Klux Klan smears, which we’re pretty sure also violates the Socratic method.