[Tennessean4Bush]

This is the best article I have read putting the left’s reaction in a historical context.

[lesser_satan]

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[avacado]

As one bumper sticker stated which I saw in my neighborhood recently: Annoy a Liberal: "Work, Succeed, Be Happy"

[Retired Greyhound]

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[skeeter]

If this analysis is correct, the single most important narrative holding the left together in today's politics and culture is the one offered--often with little or no dissent--by adversarial feminism.

I'll have to give this some thought... but at first blush it appears to explain an awful lot.

[TheBlueMax]

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[InABunkerUnderSF]

How galling it will be to Sarah Palin's many new enemies if she survives this assault and prevails.

And it's up to people like us to help make sure she does.

[ari-freedom]

she is a threat on so many levels
1) pro-life. but she’s not some old man or the “Church Lady” who doesn’t relate to modern families. She gave birth to 5 kids, one has down’s and another is pregnant.
2) global warming/ANWR. Sarah actually knows what ANWR and the glaciers look like
3) guns. She’s a mom with a gun.
4) capitalism. She’s not some hot shot CEO for the democrats to use in a class warfare campaign. She’s a commercial fisherman and her husband is a union member.
5) missile defense/national security. She is on the front lines across from Russia. Biden is just a few miles away from Washington DC.
6) education. PTA remember? Her father was a science teacher

[Integrityrocks]

“....the left gradually realized, was that socialist economics had become an albatross. Increasingly, the democratic parties of the left in Western countries downplayed socialism or even decoupled from it, leaving them free to pursue the anti-institutional, relativistic moral crusade that has been in the DNA of the left all along...”

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[Paladin2]

"...pursuit of its anti-institutional goals..."

I have some of those; BATF, IRS, State Dept, Congress, 'Rat Party, Community Organizers, Historic Districtization of my neighborhood, Diesel Taxes, MSM, etc.

[Oatka]

In her acceptance speech last Wednesday night, anyone could see the poise and skill that undoubtedly attracted McCain's attention months ago . . .

She exhibited the same qualities as she did a Q&A with other contenders for Governor of Alaska in 2006 (CSPAN had it on yesterday). She held her own with an ex-Governor and two guys and consistently came across as someone who was level-headed and for the people. Not a professional pol at all. Impressive.

[dforest]

Excellent article. Worth the read.

I am now going to remind anyone who ever wanted to knock social conservatism. You were wrong.

Palin is proof that you need both to have a chance at winning.

[razorback-bert]

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[browardchad]

It's a good article, but I have to disagree with the author's emphasis on the pill as the major agent of change. It wasn't that widely used in the '60's. It wasn't all that reliable, and there were widely publicized, sometimes fatal, side affects. And it wasn't something that a single woman felt comfortable asking about -- there were still societal mores to overcome.

Then along came Roe v Wade in the early '70's -- and suddenly Sanger's Planned Parenthood became a symbol of sexual liberation, accepted by society, heralding a new day. For Sanger (in accordance with an underlying belief in eugenics) that's what abortion was about -- freeing women to be promiscuous under the guise of taking control of the uterus. Choice, after the fact. Freedom to murder, sanctioned by society's laws, in the pursuit of what would come to be known as feminism, but was actually aimed at destruction of traditional family values.

[TheDon]

In order to drive toward a vision of true human liberation, all the institutions and moral codes we associate with civilization had to be torn down. The institutions targeted in revolutionary France included the monarchy and the nobility, but even higher on the enemies list of the Jacobins and their allies were organized religion and the family, institutions in which the moral values of traditional society could be preserved and passed on outside the control of the leftist vanguard.

We certainly see this in Cali. Prop 8 is our attempt to fight back against such nonsense.

[longtermmemmory]

Then it is doubly ironic Obama created Barakopolis.

Many of the “civilized” elements of society came from the hellenic traditions. (as in G.Washington wanted a modern Olympus in DC)

Obama represents the elimination of thought and reason in the name of a state controlled slavery.

[betty boop]

Great article, Tennessean4Bush! Thank you so much for posting it!

RE: the "Rousseau-like 'natural' state of freedom from all laws and all bonds of mutual obligation": Even animals don't live that way. Does Rousseau really think that animals have more sense and dignity than man? The fact is, the only thing that Rousseau ever wanted to liberate man from is God and His divine order. But since man is the product of same, to accept such a "liberation" is to lose one's humanity. FWIW.

[Skooz]

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[staytrue]

I think this article is off base.

The left hysteria over Palin is because like Clarence Thomas, she is an uncle tom.

The first woman VP or Pres was supposed to be one of their own, Hillary Clinton and not Palin.

Hillary is a bitter, conniving, witch with whom they identify completely. Palin is none of those things.

[ScreamingFist]

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