Posted on 03/21/2002 8:05:45 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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We forget that the great liberal Franklin D. Roosevelt started many liberal programs we take for granted today
When he wasn’t busy locking up Asians for the crime of having slanted eyes.
Because they are evil.
Bwahahahahhahahahha! I can see Georges Washington wondering indeed whether transexuals should be allowed to adopt.
Liberals? NO. Radicals? No. Patriots of liberty and freedom? YES! Liberals were all for the King as they are now!
For spending other people's money, and then feeling holier than thou for doing so. Liberals spend much of their lives proving they 'care' more than you do. Liberals are disliked for their deep narcissism, self-important shallowness, and their elitist belief that they are the special people in the world, worthy of envy and admiration. Liberals incubate poor people and minorities because they can affirm their delusional sense of self worth from them.
You're baby killing, anti-self defense socialists.
How 'bout the NEA? Americorps? Capital Gains Tax?
No, American libertarians started the Revolutionary War. They merely called themselves liberal at the time...before FDR and friends made the word an abomination.
I can not think of one govt program that benefits me. I am a typical middle class suburbanite. Please fill me in. Maybe I am missing out on something.
Also, it sounds like it was written 15 years ago, during the Reagan years. Given that a liberal or post-liberal was in the White House for eight of the last ten years, it's foolish to complain that liberals are being persecuted.
Remaining public feeling against liberals has nothing to do with the American Revolution or the abolitionists, and even not so much to do with FDR, though many of his policies don't look to have much relevance or benefit in today's world. It's the failures of the Great Society and the arrogance and anti-Americanism shown by liberals over more recent decades that disturbs people.
In general, modern liberalism shows itself as the indulgence of emotion and sentimentality over reason and the lessons experience. There may be times when a liberal attitudes or liberal measures are justified, but people are right when they are put off by modern liberalism, and wise when they question the good intentions, virtue and disinterestedness of contemporary liberals.
...and what people who want to avoid confusion call "libertarians."
The author does not understand Political Theory. The founders were Classical Liberals, a school of political thought that arose largely in France and England during the decline of the traditional Monarchies. Classical Liberalism with its emphasis on liberty and its evolution of the contemporary conception of the citizen/state relationship and social contract has little in common with modern U.S. liberalism.
But classical liberalism has everything in common with libertarianism. In fact, they are interchangeable.
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