[junta]

The Left is Robert Mugabe.

[Interious]

The Walzer article is excellent. A must read.

[IronJack]

Just as the heart of conservatism is tradition, so the heart of the Left (and a black one it is) is Marxism. Since Marx defined all conflict as class struggle, and all human conditions in terms of an economic dialectic, the Left filters all its "ideas" through a similar lens.

Is a "reasonable" Left possible? Maybe. If it could jettison the Marxist baggage that has been so thoroughly discredited in the last century. But you'd have more luck dehydrating water. Marxism is the soul of the Left, the sine qua non of that vile philosophy.

[aculeus]

Pinging.

[IronJack]

By the way, I recommend Steven Hayward's book The Age of Reagan.

[The Duke]

All liberals are, to one extent or another, insane.

[ijcr]

There are no Liberals,they are really Pseudo-Liberals.

Pseudo-Liberals is awkward, but there is no suitable, printable four-letter substitute.

They generally believe that the organised coersion of government is the universal cure for all men;s problems.

These new "Liberals" are hypocrites.They detest the wealthy, yet hit upon them for contributions.They profess to love the common man, that man or woman in the local bar or supermarket yet isolate themselves from groundroots society, living in regal splendour on the taxpayers dime.

Apart from the Media and Hollywood where do these "Liberals" work? The vast majority operate out of Campuses and Universities or Federal appointments, all sucking on the teat of taxpayer monies while living in an ivory tower being attended to, by mindless acolytes. An apt description of an American college is 12 acres surrounded by reality.

[My Identity]

Also posted here.

[Orual]

A very good read and somewhat heartening.

[Southack]

Also posted here.

[dighton]

... in recent decades the Left has been overtaken with elaborate theories of imperialism that give off an air of paranoia worthy of the black helicopter crowd. Walzer notes that many leftists revel in their self-marginalization and irrelevance.

As others have noted, it can be hard to distinguish looney left from looney right.

Here's a link to Michael Walzer's article.

[Rick_Hunter]

A number of prominent Leftists, such as Christopher Hitchens, have responded splendidly and correctly in the aftermath of September 11

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I like Christopher Hitchens. Granted, I don't agree with *all* of his political views (he is, after all, a liberal), but I do give him credit for having enough sense to realize what a sleaze Bill Clinton was/is. I'd recommend reading No One Left To Lie To, Hitchens' excellent book about Bill and Hilary.