Thomas Sowell is an amazingly insightful person and I especially appreciated his commentary on the election at NRO.

In this post at The Corner, Mr. Sowell discussed the true meaning of Freedom and why liberal leftwing policys such as enforced community service are not examples of liberty.

In other words, people on the left want the right to impose their idea of what is good for society on others — a right that they vehemently deny to those whose idea of what is good for society differs from their own.

The essence of bigotry is refusing to others the rights that you demand for yourself. Such bigotry is inherently incompatible with freedom, even though many on the Left would be shocked to be considered opposed to freedom.

He is, as always, so very correct.

The path of the leftwing liberal leads inevitably to socialism and its evil offspring communism. Forcing someone to do "good" is still forcing someone to do something they may not want to do. And that is bad.