Power trumps reason and freedom (until it doesn't)

Vatican rehabilitating Galileo

Yeah. Power always makes reason its bitch.

And that is exactly why power can eat a dick.

I'd rather be a bitch for reason and liberty, any day, waiting for power to suck a dick than ever be a bitch for the sake of power for its sake and at the expense of reason and freedom and the people that reason and freedom and all of us should be serving.

In the end, it always those who confuse power with reason and liberty who are the real bitches of the world.

Because, in the end, it is peoples' confidence in themselves and their own capacity for reason that improves, that makes real progress, for their own and all of our lives.

Liberal societies are not stronger by chance. They are stronger because liberal values make us stronger.

Liberal values teach the wisest among us to be patient. Until reason and freedom humble power.

And make real progress possible.