[Texas Fossil]

Ouch.

Read with interest until he invoked using the UN to disect the Communist after the collapse. Where do you think those criminals went. Many of the went to the UN or one of the UN NGO’s.

Then this statement:

“Leftism is the deadly enemy of what Friedrich Hayek calls the Great Society and Karl Popper the Open Society. Both terms denote the modern liberal democracy which is the only workable model for advancing civilization.”

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NO, that is incorrect, a Republic is not a “modern liberal democracy”. And it should never be. The founders understood that all Democracies are failures and guarded fiercely against concentration of power. We have always been a Republic Not a Democracy.

[robowombat]

The writer appears to be what used to be known as a ‘Cold War liberal’. These were people who started out as liberal progressives and generally fellow travelers in the 30’s and got mugged by history. By the early 50’s they were into ‘two cheers for democracy’ as Priestly titled of famous essay. At the least these folks were anti-Stalinists and understood the necessity for limits on state power and inviolable personal liberties as key elements in restraining the appetite of totalitarians. They are not conservative but are allies in the struggle against state tyranny.

[Gene Eric]

>> modern liberal democracy

He's romanticizing the phrase to mean something it doesn't. After all, he points to Horowitz:

Only recently, I came across a book by David Horowitz which confirms almost all the deductions I have made about Leftists in this essay.

But you're obviously correct in your distinction.