[68skylark]

The link is here.

[68skylark]

Paradoxically, the only hope for Liberalism is to reject Liberalism itself. It must regain the idea that the truth is discoverable and not a matter of political correctness; and then a whole succession of insights will follow: who the enemy is; how he may be beaten; what the sound of children playing in the yard really means.

If liberals take this advice, they'll become more like conservatives. I think liberals would rather die (and take out others with them) than follow this path.

[marktwain]

Liberalism has lost its books because it has burned them.

Essentially says it all.

Liberalism has become intolerant and anti-intellectual. It is a parody of the worst it attributes to others.

[G.Mason]

"The biggest insult to our black fellow citizens was the deference paid to Al Sharpton during the campaign. ... To him can be debited the fraudulent and dehumanizing scandal around Tawana Brawley (conflating scatology and sex), the Crown Heights violence between Jews and blacks, a fire in Harlem, the protests around a Korean grocery store in Brooklyn, and on and on. Yet the liberal press treats Sharpton as a genuine leader, even a moral one, the trickster as party statesman. ..."

As a white man (Spit! ... Spit!) I have no right to say anything about Sharpy Sharpton, but I'm glad someone has.

[IronJack]

Liberalism finds it that cannot, dares not utter anything new; and that is dangerous because it means inaction.

Oddly, inaction is just what some problems call for. The incessant meddling of the Left has achieved little in the way of tangible results, but it HAS created new problems! Conservatism's strength is that it is perfectly willing to maintain the status quo, the methods and ideas that have been proven through decades of use and tradition. In adopting a philosophy that demands constant change, liberalism must continually reinvent itself. Even if by some miracle it found something that worked, it would have to reject it or "improve" it in order to "progress."

However, today's liberals don't have the brainpower to actually invent anything new, or even to evolve the same old party line. So they trot out tired, shopworn cliches and chant them like axioms in the hope that nostalgia will suffice where evidence does not.

[KateUTWS]

"How will the aging men without books fare against the youthful adherents of the book which is the Koran?"

That is the billion dollar question. How will the adherants of Islam be made to live in a civilized world. We had better be finding a solution and soon!