Typical liberalism is yesterday today.
Nonsence. Conservatism as defined as those who conserve the principals of classical liberalism are on the ropes. We only stemmed the tide during the Reagan era. People want to be taken care of by government these days. No politician runs for office without promising how they will be best at making the government solve your problems.
2008 marks the end of liberalism as a governing force
President McDole has another day to explain why Conservatism is better to voters, until the Democrat Majority Press drowns him out with their megaphone for Liberals Clinton and Obama.
“... Utilizing the old gimmicks of constituent services and favors and the new ones of planning and centralization, liberalism was able to maintain its dominance in backward and desperate areas of the country such as the Northeast and Upper Midwest.
“The claim to higher morality was more inchoate, a kind of luminous abstraction beyond the grasp of money-grubbing Republicans, clearly understandable only by liberals themselves. Liberals claimed a monopoly on compassion, decency, and social justice (as defined by themselves), posing as the sole defenders of civic virtue against a horde of backwoodsmen, racists, and religious fanatics.
“This elaborate double imposture served to keep liberalism alive for over three decades in the absence of ideas, doctrine, and serious accomplishments. But 2008 has brought the charade to an end. Events this year have exposed, once and for all, in a way that cannot be denied, elided, or spun, Democratic liberals as the party of abject incompetence and institutionalized corruption. “
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Great article.
Hitlery, Spitzer, Pelosi, Paterson, McGreevey, OBama... They are really doing a great job to demonstrate the “higher moral values” of the liberals.
I have to get this to my aunt. She’ll just love it!
Because socialistic journalists and politicians were disappointed in the failure of the etymologically deceptive term "socialism" in America, they assigned to their tyrannically-inspired nostrums the term "liberalism," which at the time, and yet still outside the US, denoted what Americans now call "conservatism. They simply stole our deservedly positive label, and ran it into the ground.Now this present author asserts, with some considerable basis in fact, that socialism has mutated further but retains the term "liberalism." To distinguish the prior version of faux "liberalism" from the present farcical version, the author uses the term "classical liberalism" to denote, not free market "American conservatism," but a less-farcical prior version of socialism.
That is a bridge too far. An egregious choice of words.
"To this gallery we can add Jennifer Granholm, who assured that Michigan's current slide was as drastic and damaging as possible, Ed Rendell, Hillary's consigliere for Pennsylvania, John Murtha, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Kwame Kilpatrick, charged with perjury, obstruction of justice, and malfeasance in office. That's the Democratic Party, the bastion of American liberalism, as it stands.
Thanks for posting the article. It's an interesting read, but I have to agree with the poster who pointed out that no present politician gets elected without touting some government scheme to the voters. Otherwise, Jenny Grandmole would not have been re-elected.
Liberalism is a disease in epidemic fashion right now. I do not believe we can stem the tide of this evil problem.
Too many people have fallen prey the lure of easy money for nothing.
The Liberal/Democratic/Socialist/Communist Party is too firmly entrenched in the lower masses who are propagating at an alarming rate.
You want contemporary liberalism? John McCain gave a major policy address yesterday, shamelessly liberal. Cspan has the video:
rtsp://video.c-span.org/archive/c08/c08_032608_mccain.rm
View it and weep for America.
The real icon of todays white, liberal DemocRAT. The rest follow Che Guevara, Louis Farrakhan or Mohammad.
Worse yet, today they're resurrecting the same old ideas, putting a coat of varnish on them, then calling them "change." If you listen to Barack Obama, he doesn't have a single suggestion that doesn't sound like it comes from the Summer of Love. And Hillary Clinton's political notions were obsolete with the second publishing of the Communist Manifesto.
I don't see sitting like a frog in a slowing warming pot of water as an effective strategy.
I offered two suggestions in post #16.
Don't know about that one. JFK/RFK was a boondoggle. RFK's pursuit of organized crime when he was the son of a bootlegger was especially rich in irony.
liberalism in the classic sense existed only in the minds of the naive, the ill-informed, and terminally nostalgic.
truly mindboggling levels of corruption and ineptitude have been continually renormalized by fellow politicians and the media to enable her to survive.
his "Kennedyesque" speech on race, was in fact purely Clintonian in that it attempted to transform his failings into virtues while placing the blame on the country as a whole.
I have no problem with Jindal and Coburn. But Schwarzenegger??? And what's up with Crist? He endorsed McRINO before the Florida primary?
bump for later