Struggling to find things to write about in the benign pre-Christmas news environment. However I came upon this little gem this morning. John Bolton among other things is a former United States Ambassador to the United Nations and was considering running for POTUS this term.

He was asked yesterday what he believed was the biggest misconception the Democrats have about the Republicans. I couldn’t use the term Republican in the manner the questioner does. Its just not representative of that party anymore. The Republicans are basically just a sub group of the Democrats. If they were real Republicans however, Bolton’s views would be much more applicable.

Anyway, here’s what Bolton said-

“The core misimpression is that a fundamental belief in liberty and it’s implications is somehow cruel and uncaring. When in fact, liberty is absolutely central to the most massive economic change in the history of the world that has brought more concrete material advantages to people in the last few hundred years than in millennia before that.

And that understanding liberty means you have to value the possibility of failure as well as the possibility of success. Because if you don’t have failure as an option, you’ll never have success as an option.

It’s not lack of compassion that drives many Republican policy preferences, it’s a belief in the inherent importance of individual self-worth and not being dependent on external factors like the government.”

Probably an explanation that for all of its eloquency, is still far outside the conceptual limits of most leftists these days. They will never get it.

John Bolton on the greatest misconception that Democrats have about Republicans