What the article is talking about isn't liberalism, which has its roots in libertarianism (that's why they carpool on so many syllables), and it's right on the money in saying that these activities that they talk about shouldn't be called liberalism. It's really talking about progressivisim. You know, the movement that got its start constitutionally banning alcohol. Those folks.
The far left in America is made up largely of liberal progressives. What the liberal side means is that they want you to be able to do whatever you want, and be whoever you want (gay, a black woman with a job, a transsexual atheist hooker) without any impediment by the government or society at large so long as it doesn't hurt other people.
That's where the progressive side comes in. Progressives look at the big picture consequences of little-picture actions. In small doses, this is a good thing. Progressives say that factories shouldn't be able to dump mercury into the river next to your house, because it hurts other people, and we shouldn't be able to defecate on the sidewalk because nobody wants to walk in other people's poop.
Modern progressivism has been extended even further. It is the modern progressive who argues that if you drink a lot of soda, you'll get fat, and then you'll have health problems, and then you're going to burden the hospital that other people go to, and that's why we should tax soda. Ditto cigarettes. Ditto anything that might be bad for you, really.
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You do know that NAZI was the German acronym for national SOCIALISTS, right? The Nazis were the far left. Socialists. National Socialists.
/johnny
they want you to be able to do whatever you want, and be whoever you want (gay, a black woman with a job, a transsexual atheist hooker)
Why did you include "a black woman with a job" on that list?
Comparing them to the Nazi’s of 1944 might be out of hand, but to compare liberals to the Nazi’s of 1933 is completely accurate. The only difference is the time.
I agree. But there isn't anything casual about comparing socialist douches like the far left wing of the Democrat party to Nazis. The only difference is they lack, so far, the ability to round up people they find undesirable into concentration camps. You know they want to, and will just as soon as they get the opportunity. No this is deadly serious, and the only stupid ones are those who don't recognize the socialist nanny staters for what they are. Oppressive wanna be dictators.
Here's the problem - liberals want you to be "whoever you want" so long as you're a member of a liberal victim group. They're not so much "open minded" as they are "accepting of themselves".
For example:
How would you feel if I said as proof of my great open-mindedness I was accepting of fundamental Christians, radical gun owners, and even though I don't believe in killing abortion doctors I believe everyone has the right to make that choice for themselves.
Under those circumstances would you see me as "open minded" or "nuts"? Well, that's how I see liberals - nuts. The only people they're ever open minded about are themselves and the fringe radical groups that support them.