Leftism is Dead

http://www.baumanoren.blogspot.com ^ | 09/19/2004 | Dr. Michael Bauman

[kiporen]

The patient's heart hasn't yet stopped beating, but the game is over. The disease is terminal. The end is coming. The liberals killed liberalism by being small-minded, irrational, mean-spirited, and uninformed. In other words, by being bad liberals.

[kiporen]

Here's Michael Bauman's take on the state of the left. Dr. Bauman is a noted writer and the chairman of the Christian Studies Department at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI

[rmmcdaniell]

The fact that a rino like Bush is the Republican candidate is proof that liberalism is thriving. Conservatism, Freedom, and the Constitution is whats dead.

[rmmcdaniell]

The fact that a rino like Bush is the Republican candidate is proof that liberalism is thriving. Conservatism, Freedom, and the Constitution is whats dead.

[spunkets]

If it was, then it wouldn't be such a bother. It is and it costs a lot.

[thegreatbeast]

I stopped with the title. Stupid.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I wish I could say I agree. I believe, however, that leftism is more than an ideology. It's a natural phenomenon that springs from envy and self-loathing, facilitated and enabled by the very human lust for power.

[saint]

Did anyone notice conservatism is dead, too? The right has undergone a radical transformation. The '08 election is going to be a battle between two dead entities.

[x]

A little perspective is sometimes useful. If Alger Hiss or Lyndon Johnson or George McGovern or Mondale and Dukakis or Clinton didn't "kill off" liberalism or leftism, Kerry won't either. No more than the Great Depression or McCarthy or Goldwater or Nixon "killed off" conservatism. Ideologies have a way of going on and changing with time. So it's stupid to say that one ideology or the other will die anytime soon. Right and left is one of those persistent oppositions that never go away. The content -- what is right and what is left -- varies widely over time, but the opposition endures.

[blue jeans]

You are absolutely dreaming! I wish it were so ... but let's take a look:

The dems have put up as their candidate a guy that's as uncharismatic as a carboard cutout and has voted hard left for 20 years. Their veep choice is a handsom slick-talking 1 term senator who got 160 million bucks for being a slip and fall lawyer.

And even though their campaign is being run into the ground, they still will garner 45-50% of the popular vote.

And you think the left is near dead? All it takes is a guy with charisma who's a slick-talker and who is really smart to clean our clocks (Bill Clinton times two).

No siree. There's still a huge amount of educating the general public about economics ... history... and yes morality that needs to be done. Over half a century of liberal-controlled education and a liberal media is overcome that easily my friend.

[EggsAckley]

Please do not excerpt from blogs. Post the whole article.

[T'wit]

>> small-minded, irrational, mean-spirited, and uninformed. In other words, by being bad liberals.

The author implies that there is such a thing as good liberals. He is mistaken. There is only one species of liberal, all of them small-minded, irrational, mean-spirited, uninformed, childish, immoral, deceitful, narcissistic and invariably wrong, even when they come down on both sides of an issue.

[Republic]

LOL!!! Love your bio page....the "BLAH! BLAH! BLAH! " you wrote is just so appropo to your post here ! HeHe!

GO BUSH! Go CHENEY! Keep those taxes going DOWN! Keep our medical care OUT OF THE GOVERNMENTS HORRIFIC CONTROL! Keep those FAITH BASED INTITIATIVES FLOWING! GOD BLESS YOU BOTH!

THANK GOD the GROWN-UPS are in CHARGE! ( Which is what really has the liberals so upset....cause you just know how much the immature liberals dispise grown-ups!)

[The Real Indepman]

What has become of liberals is they have sunk into what is becoming known as subliberalism, a hateful muckraking bunch that call themselves "liberals"...