[JimRed]

The Left, a moral compass? Yes some of them did have it once; but not since the days of Humphrey and McGovern.

[Joe Brower]

As FReeper noumenon put it on another thread, "Liberals' dedication to the destruction of a free society renders them unfit to live in that same society".

[el_texicano]

The Left...a "moral" compass??? Surely we are talking of two mutually exclusive terms here...

The "Left" never had a compass...much less a "moral" one. Remember...symbolism over substance with them. They go by their "Feelings"...nothing more than feeling... Sounds like a song don't it.

[Plutarch]

Madonna has lost her sense of modesty.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

You can't lose what you don't have.

[AlaskaErik]

The left has no moral compass. Leftists are morally, spiritually and intellectually bankrupt.

[Cultural Jihad]

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The rhetoric accurately reflects the current condition of much of the left -- bitter, stymied, alienated, politically impotent, full of loathing for America and the West, and totally unable to address the crisis wrought by 9/11, except to imply (or say) that the U.S. deserved to be attacked.

The left has lost its bearings, Michael Walzer, the political philosopher, wrote in the spring issue of Dissent, the leftist magazine he edits. His article, "Can There Be a Decent Left?" deplored "the barely concealed glee" of the left's reaction to 9/11, and the lack of "any visible concern" about how to prevent terrorism in the future.

"Many left intellectuals live in America like internal aliens," he wrote, "refusing to identify with their fellow citizens, regarding any hint of patriotic feeling as politically incorrect. That's why they had such difficulty responding emotionally to the attacks of Sept. 11 or joining in the expressions of solidarity that followed."

The favorite posture of many American leftists, Walzer said, is "standing as a righteous minority, brave and determined, amid the timid, the corrupt and the wicked. A posture like that ensures at once the moral superiority of the left and its political failure." He said the left needs to discard its "ragtag Marxism" and its belief that America is corrupt beyond remedy.

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The author could easily be writing about the moral-liberal Libertarians, as well.

[theDentist]

How can you lose something that you deliberately threw away 30 years ago?

[Lancey Howard]

LOFL, when I read the thread title I thought this was a reprint of a column from the '70s. The "left", including primarily the Democrat Party and their enablers, are so far gone that they are now brazen in their lies and deceit, as if they understand fully that it really doesn't matter. They know that the parasite class will vote for them no matter what, because all they care about is big-government confiscation of their neighbors' money to pay for lots of "free stuff", and the working taxpayers who vote for them are obviously too stupid to know any better.

So the Democrats figure they may as well keep lying and hope to rope in some more ignoramuses. (Or is that "ignoramusi"?)

[Dick Bachert]

Here's just ONE indication of how much things have changed:

"The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which has historically proved to be always possible."
Senator Hubert Humphery (D- Minnesota)

[js1138]

It's all about money. The academic left lives on crumbs dropped from the table of government. Anything that gives conservatives a political advantage threatens their livelihood, because conservatives are never going to be as generous as liberals.

I have been reading New Republic recently, and they seem to have had an integrity implant. There are major articles supporting the war against Iraq and a neutral-to-favorable review of a Ken Starr book.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

The left's moral compass has always been iffy at best and downright nonexistant more often than not. What changes is the levels of depravity to which they sink, and they are in great danger of drowning in the cesspool of societal decay and degredation that they have spawned. Since the rest of us could very well expire with them, because of them, I take it very personally and seriously. I wish I believed that a newer more moral attitude would invade the political
scene, but I don't believe so. Not in the forseeable future.

[republicman]

It actually sounds less like a moral compass and more like the left (hard left) has devolved into a bunch of nutcases who rentlessly attack the ONLY country in the world truly worth defending.

The mainstream left's use of fearmongering, lying, election stealing, hypocrisy as a strategy, and other Clintonian tactics is the proof of the mainstream's loss of a moral compass.

The left has devolved into power at any price demogogues in the mainstream and on the fringe a bunch of hateful mindless whackos undermining our will to defend ourselves.

All together, no less a threat than Islam.

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[jriemer]

The Left morally demagnitize everything they touch.

They could have a monopoly on the "moral compasses" industry and what good would it do 'em?

jriemer

[philman_36]

The Left Has Lost Its' Moral Compass
The Left, a moral compass?
Wins my vote for oxymoron of the year.

[Ditter]

The paragraph that begins..... "Many left intellectuals live in America like internal aliens............. that is why they had such difficulty responding to the attack on Sept 11 or joining in the expressions of solidarity that followed"

That paragraph is speaking about my former liberal minister. Former because I have not been back to church since the Sunday *after* 9-11. The sermon that we wanted & needed at that time, he unable to preach & it was plainly obviously how conflicted he was.

[Andy from Beaverton]

They need to remove the magnet placed South of the compass by teachers, lawyers and unions.

[KeyBored]

We're witnessing a total meltdown of the Left. But while they don't presently have the House of Representatives or the White House, they still wield plenty of power. And like a cornered bear, they can still do plenty of damage to what's left of our Republic.

Limbaugh says the the left "does funny things" when they are out of power (i.e. when they don't have the White House). Well Rush you'll have to excuse me if I don't laugh along with you.

I don't find people who's goal is a society modelled after Cuba to be in the least bit funny.

[Jabba the Nutt]

Left and Right are terms that go back to the French Parliament in the years after Napoleon. At that time, The Left meant Laissez-Faire Liberals, ie libertarians. The Right were the reactionaries, who wanted to re-install the Monarchy and the old feudal regime. They opposed business, they opposed the free market and they opposed free speech.

In the 1840's the socialists insisted on being seated on the left, indeed the far left. They appropriated the moral stature of the pro-freedom folks.

The Left actually smashed any moral compass they had at exactly the time they adopted socialism. Socialism had to enslave people in order for it to work. They always maintained their claim to moral superiority and the Right ceded that claim out of stupidity and cowardice. Gee, that sounds just like Trent Lott. Nothing much as changed.

Ayn Rand was for me the first anti-leftist, who challenged their claim to morality and sought to reclaim morality for the pro-freedom folks. She insisted on the importance of arguing for the morality and not only pragmatically.

[Lilly]

"The Left has lost it's moral compass"

..um, you gotta have it to lose it.

Since Lefties don't obey the Lord Jesus, and there is no morality outside of God's Word, they're living in their own delusions, deceiving and being deceived.