More Americans have been killed by well-meaning liberal policies than by
all the wars of the last century combined. J. R. Dunn not only analyzes
the unintended consequences of liberal policies, but argues that these
consequences have resulted in millions of fatalities in the United
States and around the world.
Liberalism sees itself as a rational and helpful philosophy that seeks
to use the benign power of the government to improve our safety, health,
and general welfare. In doing so, it relies on the authority of experts
to devise the most rational means of realizing these goals.
Unfortunately, when these well-meaning plans go awry, as they too often
do, the results can be disastrous, even deadly.
As J. R. Dunn persuasively argues in this thoroughly documented book,
death by liberalism occurs in all fields and at all levels of society.
Motorists, workers, even children taken under the state's protection all
have fallen victim to liberal policies. What's more, the numbers are
staggering. Liberalism can be implicated in the deaths of hundreds of
thousands in this country, and millions worldwide.
Dunn's detailed and deliberative account takes no cheap shots but relies
on well-established facts to show liberalism's fatal consequences in
numerous aspects of our lives, from crime and abortion to
fuel-efficiency standards and the banning of DDT, from gun control to
urban renewal. Dunn also pinpoints areas in which liberal interventions
in the making are likely to produce more suffering and death, such as
legal euthanasia, and identifies some of the leading liberals--including
George Soros--behind the spread of these lethal initiatives.
