Posted on 12/14/2004 10:36:30 AM PST by Kitten Festival
Recently a very dangerous notion has been making the rounds among conservatives, a notion which should be put to rest immediately lest it metastasize into a dangerous malignancy. Heady with victory, the American conservative movement has been theorizing that liberalism and the left lie mortally wounded, and that a future of freedom and prosperity is assured. I would like to paraphrase Mark Twain and state unequivocally that the death of the left has been greatly exaggerated.
If government can be compared to Leviathan, then the twin faces of liberalism and leftism should properly be compared to the Hydra, a monster composed of numerous heads which sprout anew whenever one is severed. The names for liberalism are legion (for they are many); Communism, Socialism, Nazism and Fascism, the peace movement, the environmental movement, Secular Humanism, multiculturalism, and political correctness, among others. Each of these shows a different face and different aspect of the great overarching philosophy that is liberalism. They all stem from a common root, and they all have goals with a common end. They may deal with different aspects of the perceptual world, but they look at that world with the same viewpoint and seek to manipulate it toward the same end. This is part of what makes the fight against the Left so difficult; cut off one head and another takes up the fight against you.
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They're far from dead and rotting.
The Fourth Estate™ is part of The Fifth Column™ and they're all part of The Enemy Within™.
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