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Posted on 02/21/2011 9:42:32 PM PST by neverdem
HAVING WRITTEN AN ARTICLE a year ago on the question "Is Conservatism Dead?" and answering it in the negative, I am now charged with answering the reciprocal question, "Is Liberalism Dead?"
I am afraid that, pace my friend Bob Tyrrell, I must also answer this one in the negative. Liberalism is not dead for some of the same reasons that conservatism is not dead. Liberalism and conservatism are more or less permanent antagonisms within our system of state capitalism such that neither is likely to disappear unless or until the system of which they are parts somehow blows up. The question, therefore, is not whether liberalism is dead but rather whether our highly institutionalized system of political economy shows signs of breaking apart. If either liberalism or conservatism should expire, then it will be through a crisis or cataclysm much in the way that secessionism disappeared with the Civil War and laissez faire capitalism in the Great Depression.
Such an upheaval, while still unlikely, is not entirely out of the question. The long recession that began in 2007 continues to strain public and private...
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Liberalism is not dead, but it may soon be under siege.
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The conflict today between Democrats and Republicans increasingly puts public sector unions and beneficiaries of public programs against the middle-class taxpayer and business interests large and small...
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Conservatives are in a position to hasten this process along by refusing to approve the spending, borrowing, and federal bailouts that will be required to keep public sector liberalism afloat, though at the price of being blamed for the pain and suffering associated with its collapse. But this is undoubtedly a price worth paying to guide the nation through an adjustment that will otherwise take place later and under circumstances far less to anyone's liking.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Is Liberalism dead? No, Satan lives.
Liberalism was dead. It then ate the personification of death itself and became one with the undead.
Which it's quite evident now, they wish to do.
So, no, liberalism, aka communism, is nowhere near dead.
Is Liberalism dead? No, Satan lives.
You nailed it!
If not; it should be. I am tired of whiny little 2 years old screaming me, me, me all of the time.
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Ping
Could we have a loyal opposition? The rats have been appalling from Vietnam to Iraq.
See my tag line.
Well that is a very good question. Given the taint that has become SOP at this point, I just do not know.
The house cleaning (exorcism?) that must happen will not be quick or painless. But I do see the legitimate value of such an opposing set of members.
If this is not present then we descend quickly into dictatorship/fascism/one-party rule. None of which are the system set forth in the U.S. Constitution - which must be our political and governmental foundation.
Good read.
Wow. Tofu Fried Chicken and Soy Fries. Baked of course and with no salt.
No, it never dies... Every so often, it just runs out of money... like my tagline says.
Hell, no, liberalism is not dead—no where near it. As long as we have stupid people, we’ll have liberalism/progressives/Democrats.
Is Liberalism dead? No, Satan lives.
Indeed. Liberalism can easily be demonstrated to be the rational outgrowth of Luciferian ideology.
And it will not cease to be until the world is remade.
Amen. Come Lord Jesus.
Classical Liberalism = Americanism = today’s conservatives
What is called “liberalism” today is nothing but rehashed Marxism and Humanism, based in the lies of Satan (you should have no consequences, you get to define good and evil for yourselves, you should be under no extra-earthly authority - See Genesis 3).
It is a dead idea that keeps coming back. Only to create havoc and damage.
Once people live the destruction, they seek to bury it again.
We need to make it DOA.
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