Posted on 10/20/2011 2:57:39 PM PDT by mojito
Liberalism’s core values remain strong, persuasive and enduring. Their fighting vitality is apparent in the spreading youth-led protests on Wall Street and across the country. What we lack is a coherent progressive narrative explaining and justifying liberalism’s role in the radically changed circumstances of the twenty-first century—a liberal vision of the kind Thomas Jefferson and Sam Adams offered the founders or John Dewey gave the Progressive Era. Liberals need to stop denying who they are and, like the young protesters, start fighting for what they believe in. For though aggravated and anxious, liberals have never been less visible in the struggle for the hearts and minds of our fellow citizens.
With no coherent new liberal narrative to render our values timely, we too often cleave to the center and compromise to the right. We care about civility, but civility is looking a lot like surrender. We must not step away from our values before negotiation begins, allowing runaway financial markets, bloviating plutocrats and anti-government hubris to dominate, while poverty, social justice and climate change slip off the legislative agenda. And when we do take to the streets to voice our anger, we lack the clarity and focus that only a relevant narrative can offer.
The stakes have never been higher: nearly three years after the inauguration of a moderate African-American president, our nation confronts a rapacious plutocracy reminiscent of the Gilded Age and a noisome corporate media along with a noisy, supposedly anti-plutocratic populist Tea Party that is in fact funded by that very plutocracy. This weird coalition of the smug and the frightened cries, “We’re number one!” even as it dismantles the democratic institutions and programs that make America great and plays roulette with the debt ceiling and America’s global reputation.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...
"With no coherent new liberal narrative to render our values timely..." You don't say, Sparky? Could have fooled me!
If you can stomach it, read the whole silly mess. Few articles reveal so much about the liberal mind, or rather the lack thereof.
Liberalism, as with Progressivism, is a mental disorder. =.=
LOL! That is quite enough. I don’t need to see any more of it. It’s all about the narrative to them. The fact that nothing in history supports their backward beliefs never even enters into their minds.
In exactly the same way that "decay" is enduring. In exactly the same way that rust never sleeps. In exactly the same way that the second law of thermodynamics demands that the entropy of any closed system must always increase.
Just as Kipling taught us in The Gods of the Copybook Headings, the dog must return to its vomit. In exactly this way, Liberalism's core values are strong, persuasive, and enduring.
Maybe the message is "We are clueless and we need adult supervision".
I laughed after the first sentence. That’s a knee slapper.
One grain of truth in the piece: the smelly OWS brats are indeed representative of liberal “values”: drugs, sex, body mutilations, anger, socialism, communism and body odor.
Liberalism’s core values are strong, pervasive, and
hard to remove from the body politic, rather like
the scent of skunk.
“Liberalism’s core values remain strong, persuasive and enduring.”
(The Catholic church calls them ‘The Seven Deadly Sins’)
“Their fighting vitality is apparent in the spreading youth-led protests on Wall Street and across the country.”
(Though organized, directed, paid for and supported by corrupt old ultra wealthy white men who see it as a means to keep and extend their wealth and power.)
“What we lack is a coherent progressive narrative explaining and justifying liberalism’s role in the radically changed circumstances of the twenty-first century...”
(Now that the Soviet Union collapsed, taking most institutional Marxism with it, and China is more interested in money than dialectic.)
“Liberals need to stop denying who they are...”
(Which is hard when you can’t look in a mirror without wanting to vomit, and even your therapists don’t want to physically touch you.)
persuasive
and enduring.
If we can't beat them, even with the massive fraud they use to stuff ballot boxes, then we don't deserve to win. Even if Romney is our nominee, we need to get every conservative to the polls for the Senate and House races and for state and local elections. These drug-addled losers must be stopped; it's time for the adults to make the decisions.
"We the people" are the government. America is a government that has a country, not the other way around. To oppose government is therefore anti-people and anti-American.
Very persuasive. I'm convinced.
That third photo...tell me it is photoshopped, please. That way I’ll know whether to laugh or cry.
The author is certifiable.
Were things like this ever taken seriously? If so, when did things change?
When did we as a country stop falling for stuff like this? Or at what age do individuals realize it's nonsense?
Or maybe there's always an audience of manifesto readers and believers that completely overlaps with the supply of manifesto writers.
Symbolism over substance is the core of liberalism.
Thomas Jefferson and Sam Adams have nothing in common with the modern progressive left’s communist and socialists. The problem is they are totalitarians not liberals.
Thomas Jefferson and Sam Adams have nothing in common with the modern progressive left’s communists and socialists. The problem is they are totalitarians not liberals.
Thomas Jefferson and Sam Adams have nothing in common with the modern progressive left’s communists and socialists. The problem is they are totalitarians not liberals.
Barber’s an idiot.
“THE ISSUE IS NOT THE ISSUE. THE ISSUE IS REVOLUTION!”-SDS activist
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