On March 2nd you printed a Guest Column about the group think and intolerance of the progressive left, particularly on college campuses. In it, the author claims that “getting along is the only way that people can survive.” I agree, and I’d like to expand on that theme.

What he describes is the economic way. Voluntary exchange, free people trading value for value, each person with different values and goals. It’s the stuff of civilization. It is entrepreneurs, with their creativity and compassion, that anticipate the needs and desires of their customers, and deliver more and better and cheaper. It is a system that is respectfully or derisively referred to as capitalism.

Unfortunately, our academic/media/political cabal condemns this while looting it for their own enrichment. It’s for the “common good” after all. They live by the moral code of good intentions, a mind-numbing concept made famous by philosopher Immanuel Kant. It’s also called social justice. Last time I checked all justice is social.

The author’s advice is good, “Listen to opposing points of view, think about your positions, defend them or amend them as you must.” But that’s based on the premise that they are willing to listen, think, and have reality-based principles. None of that is true, their philosophy is a version of premodern mysticism.

They’ve been indoctrinated by today’s humanities departments and believe themselves to be our moral and intellectual superiors. My proof is President Obama. Social justice begets Poetic Justice, and they got President Trump.