Liberals have a whole series of guidebooks:
Posted on 08/16/2012 6:34:56 AM PDT by IbJensen
There are no influential liberal thinkers because liberal 'ideas' have been discredited by the reality of history. They don't work. There are no ideas on the left worth debating.
The left has hunger, greed and grievance. And old warmed-up Marxism - with enough totalitarian bells and whistles to feed hunger, greed and grievance... In short, in spite of all the academics, in spite of control of almost every college and newspaper in the country, liberals are intellectually bankrupt. Sorry Ed Driscoll ...
The fact that they’re mostly God-less and atheistic is the driving force behind their desired destruction of all that is good.
Rules for Radicals is a book of strategy ... Das Kapital - a look at capitalism AS IF all capitalists were running small unprofitable sweatshops - their only chance of profit being to exploit labor...(stupid stupid) Face it, the left is intellectually dead...
bkmk
It’s not that Lefties don’t have their own canon. It’s that they cannot afford to admit to outsiders what canon they really follow, because that would be too revealing of their inner totalitarianism.
Oh I agree, but that's the cannon they use. What they choose for their cannon tells you a lot about them, neh?
Liberalism is not really a political philosophy, it is a political strategy. The ones at the top, the Pelosi’s, Keneedy’s, Obama, Clinton’s etc have one singular core value and EVERYTHING else is optional. This core value is that they want to be in charge.
Liberals have a whole series of guidebooks:
Liberals do not enjoy looking at the roots of their political beliefs.
And they do have a canon. It’s little. And red.
It’s not a political philosophy or a strategy, it’s a psychological condition.
Google “cognitive dissonance”.
Yes, it does circlecity. And even more if they understood and acknowledged the sources of their ideas...
LOL - if poster shops were conservative - or balanced - that would be one great selling poster. Wonderful, Iron Munro... totally wonderful. Thanks for sharing.
I forget who it was, but I heard a prominent liberal say recently that liberals DON’T READ. He was talking about why CURRENT liberal books don’t sell, and the fact that there is not a canon of CLASSICS that liberals read.
Which is not surprising, since liberalism is merely organized stupidity and bigotry.
Von Mises. But it reminds me of the Mies whose style is imitated in the Fountainhead photo in the original post: Mies Van der Rohe.
Who once got into trouble with his wife, and had to spend weeks in the bauauhaus.
≤}B^)
The book backs up some of your ideas... and it's a good read. If you're bored and looking around, pick it up.
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