[reaganaut1]

I suggest reading the whole thing. VDH does a good job filleting California liberals.

[allendale]

The motto of all liberals is “With my guilt and your gelt, we can do anything!”. The coalition of deluded whites, minorities, government workers and people dependent on the government has been a disaster for America. The worst fears of the founders are coming true. The Constitutional Convention was acutely aware why historic attempts at democracy whether it be Greece, Rome, the Hanover league, Florence etc failed. Eventually the grasping get control of the government and public purse, and ruin everything.

[cdcdawg]

“Among elite liberals today, all too few are of this classical mold — guided by reason and empirical observation.”

Few? How about none, at all, zero? VDH is being far too kind.

[Servant of the Cross]

Unlike classical liberals, the liberals of today hew to doctrine in the face of the evidence.

VDH ping.

[facedown]

bttt

[Servant of the Cross]

Oh my! A must read ... the whole thing. VDH must have recently been with an ossified Washington Sixties-era careerist medieval liberal pompadour who deems himself Socrates! ... and he skewers them.

This is a priceless description and portrayal of the warped and completely hypocritical liberal mind ... sort of like the obese friar with a neat tonsure.

[AndrewB]

Sheer poetry.

[beaversmom]

This was sent to me by a fellow FReeper. I’m so glad he sent it because I might have missed it otherwise. This is excellent and I hope lots of FReepers read it and disseminate it. I’m going to send it to several local talk show hosts and maybe even a national one or two. Post it on my FB page; although, I don’t think any of the people that need to read it will. And post it to conservative pages on FB. Right on VDH! You took the words out of mouth/mind and twisted them into intelligence and poetry. ;)

[Billthedrill]

In this regard, Al Gore is the medieval liberal par excellence, whose own life is not lived in accordance with his ideology, and who is more interested in becoming wealthier than in leading a modest but principled life. Like the worst of medieval clerics, Gore is an elitist who spouts pieties to save his soul, as compensation for selling it to the highest bidder for fossil-fuel-generated dollars.

Now that is going to leave a mark. But it gets better:

The non-medieval mind always fails to perceive the romance of the poor, and fails to hanker after the tastes and culture of the lord. Translated, that means he is the uncouth ignoramus who has no clue what Sidwell Friends or the Menlo School is, no grand strategy of how to get Junior into Princeton or Stanford, no idea what a Hobie or Cannondale is, but maybe knowledge of a handgun, a jet ski, a camper, or any other of the many superfluous appurtenances that are proof that the tax rate is too low.

Guilty as charged, M'Lud. As a proud bitter clinger to my middle-class antecedents I find myself mystified by the practices of my betters, owners of a thousand dollars' worth of hi-tech camping gear who will nevertheless pitch it in a dry wash during the rainy season. It is as if the real world pays insufficient respect to the culturally enlightened.

It is always fun to read an articulate rant. VDH is sounding a bit angry here, angrier than usual, but then that appears to be true of a lot of us. Angry enough? Time will tell.

[Fledermaus]

Read the comment section. NRO gets more trolls than here.

Even some “conservative” commentators were chiding VDH for using the term “medieval” because they don’t understand his meaning.