Why I Oppose Liberalism

Townhall.com ^ | October 11, 2014 | John Hawkins

[Kaslin]

Sitting out the election or voting for a third party candidate who has zero chances of getting elected, only helps the left.

Do you really want to help them? You better think this through

[Vaduz]

Liberalism nothing more than cowards losers and idiots in a huddle.

[Kaslin]

And that is factual

[EEGator]

Feel would be a better description.

[Kaslin]

?

[Kaslin]

I think I got what you meant

[EEGator]

Meaning liberals rely on emotion rather than thought...more basal.

[Kaslin]

Yeah, that is what I thought you meant

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The meaning of the word “liberalism” was, according to Safire’s New Political Dictionary, essentially inverted in the 1920s. When Theodore Roosevelt, in 1910, said that “It is not the critic who counts . . . the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena” that was liberalism. In the 1930s, FDR had essentially the opposite view, yet by then the meaning of the word “liberalism” was so transmogrified that he was able to unselfconsciously style himself a “liberal.”

IMHO the ersatz “liberal” of today is clearly defined as holding the view Barak Obama and Elizabeth Warren expressed - that “If you own a business, you didn’t build that.” It is of course possible that some business owners gain their position unfairly - but note, dear reader, that the “liberal mindset is that legitimate merit of ownership is an oxymoron. Arbitrary dismissal of other people’s merit is blatant cynicism. It is the fatuous conceit that criticism is superior to performance.

“Liberalism” should be anathema to anyone who is trying to accomplish anything, rather than merely putting in time (if that).

[EternalVigilance]

This is a time for hard words, with no gloss.

Hawkins delivers that with this great article.

[equaviator]

Election fraud is so unprofessional. Do it right or don’t do it at all.