Liberalism and the Feminization of the American Male

Horsefeathers ^ | 11-22-2005 | Stephen Rittenberg

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Every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not, he's a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching men fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared. Some men get over their fright in a minute under fire. For some, it takes an hour. For some, it takes days. But a real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood…”(Horsefeathers bolding)--Gen. George S. Patton in his speech to the troops before D-Day, June 6, 1944

Horsefeathers has argued that contemporary Liberalism, as embodied by the Democratic left, has devolved into a set of limp-wristed attitudes, a self-flattering pose, rather than a political philosophy. As Paul Hollander trenchantly put it: “For many “being on the left” has come to mean not specific policies but a diffuse sentimental claim on virtue, hope, and morality—as for example for Richard Rorty who associates the left with the idea of “defending the weak against the strong.” Those still sympathetic to these political ideologies and systems that supposedly embodied these good intentions see themselves as idealists, people of strong and pure feelings, selfless critics of evil and especially greed. Their sense of identity is durably stamped by such increasingly and irrepressibly sentimental self-conceptions. William Sloan Coffin, the venerable “activist” and social critic of the 1960s tellingly entitled his recent “essays on public morality” as “The Heart is a Little to the Left.”...

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