Posted on 05/22/2005 11:34:43 PM PDT by the anti-liberal
To be a democrat is to never grow up.
This is why Dean needs support from the right. LOL
Thanks for the ping!
An amazing sentence that concisely defines most of the core differences between conservatives and liberals.
Let's hope you are right.....
Although the old saw.."Hope is NOT a plan" comes to my mind. Heh, heh, heh....
FRegards,
good column bump
MUST you remind me . . .
"The dribble has turned to a tide and eventually a tsunami. Expect to see more capitulation in the days ahead. Go easy on them; no need to tell them you told them so.
The pity they see in everybody's eyes is humiliation enough."
I've kept telling people on the right not to give up, because the left was built as a house of cards and would collapse of it's own weight given time. Reid, Kennedy, Byrd, Dean, Kerry, Pelosi - are raving lunatics and they are now soooo shrill that even those with IQ's below 100 can't help but notice.
Welcome home!
"In short, I became a card-carrying liberal, although I never actually got a card. (Bookkeeping has never been the left's strong suit.)"
LOL!
In 1977, as a HS sophomore, I went on a student tour of Europe. We flew from Athens to Belgrade, and landed at the national airport of Yugoslavia. Between the runways, a crop of wheat was being harvested by old women using hand scythes, while able-bodied young men in uniforms and carrying machine guns watched from across the tarmac.
I learned that day all I ever needed to know about Communism. Later, in college, when the leftists tried to speak of the wonders of socialism, I knew that they were just gullible dupes.
"Where would you place 'liberalism' in this scale?
Forgive me for not getting back to you for awhile, eventually I fell asleep :-)
18th century, or "classical" liberalism, is pretty close to extreme right in that scale, IMO. But I believe "extreme right" in the 18th century referred to complete monarchy, which was also totalitarian.
By today's definitions in America anyway, I'd place "liberalism," (in that the term can be pinned down) somewhat to the left of center at times, and close to the extreme left at other times.
IMO, most people who call themselves liberals don't actually have any guiding principles or political philosophies at all. They still vaguely cling to the old clasical liberal ideals of individual liberties, while simultaneously embracing contradictory leftist ideals of greater and greater state control over our lives in pursuit of egalitarianism and "fairness." I think this fellow is such a one, who eventually did feel compelled to develop some personal guiding principles.
And there are others who call themselves liberals who are very definitely leftists or even socialists. Some of these are purposely dishonest about whom they are.
I pretty much agree with your #36, except that I would call the dominating philosophy of academia socialism, or perhaps rationalism. Only because I think the term liberalism has become kind of amorphous.
Why do the letters "En" in enemy and "te" in state have so much more space between them than the others?? :)
I didn't know sleeping was allowed here!
IMO, most people who call themselves liberals don't actually have any guiding principles or political philosophies at all.
I absolutely agree in that they don't specifically choose to follow a particular philosophy, they just follow. That lead IMO is ruled by post modernism which result in the "new" liberals actions. Ideas do bear fruit and what I see going on now in action is a direct result of the culture set by academia's experiment with post-modernism. Some experiments go horribly wrong though.
I have to plead ignorance here. Can you fill me in as to the meaning of "post modernism?"
I hear the term used in the art world, of which I am now a part, but actually don't know its meaning.
Interesting Opus and study of the RINO mind..
Note: This is not my Opus, just a posting...
But I agree that it's an interesting study.
Related thread:
Former state Democratic party chairman changes to GOP The News & Observer ^ | May 23, 2005 | Rob Christensen
Posted on 05/23/2005 8:32:58 AM PDT by mlc9852
Lawrence Davis, a former state Democratic Party chairman from Raleigh, has switched his registration to the Republican Party. Davis said he decided to switch parties because his personal beliefs on issues such as abortion, same-sex marriages and the lottery differed from the positions of the Democratic Party.
"Basically, it's an effort to bring some coherence between my beliefs and my actions," Davis said. "I felt my [former] party was on the wrong side of right-wrong issues."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1408738/posts
Here it is... Rush reading this on air now. Music to my ears!
Not YOUR Opus.. Keith Thomson's Opus from the "left"...
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