Comments on: The liberal hour

By: ramesees

ramesees — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:49:38 +0000

Walter Russel Mead had an interesting article the other day talking about the enduring political traditions in America – New England Puritanism, Virginia Jeffersonianism, etc. I think he’s right about that, and I think Douhat’s probably right about the instability of the Democrat coalition – at some point, conflicting interests between the government clients that make up the Democrat Party will cause a rift that will be hard to recover from.

By: Doomberg

Doomberg — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:02:46 +0000

2) Liberalism, no less than conservatism, is riven by internal contradictions.

No, it really isn’t. The uniting principle behind modern day liberalism/socialism is “We’re going to take your money and redistribute it, mostly to ourselves.”

ALL liberals are broadly united around this principle. It is their first principle, and all their other ballyhooed causes, such as environmentalism, peace activism, anti-racism, anti-sexism, and free speech ALWAYS take a backseat to this uniting principle, something almost all liberals instinctively understand. Peace activism and free speech in particular have suffered huge body blows during the Obama administration, but most liberals can’t even pretend to care anymore about those causes, now that they have served their purposes. Those who don’t get behind the first principle of liberalism were purged from the party long ago.

He has a point about conservatism though. The current conservative movement is made up of people who support amnesty and support a halt to illegal immigration, by people who want to cut spending and people who think that government spending just needs to be managed better, isolationists and war hawks, and social liberals and social conservatives and people stuck in between.

The “big tent” of the Republican Party has gotten too big and something has to give.

By: Marxism is for dummies

Marxism is for dummies — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:56:06 +0000

Like most political columns, this is just so much BS. Most voters view an election, especially a presidential election, as “who is the lesser of the two evils”? Last year, they decided it was Obama (thanks to a media-assisted campaign to make Romney look like it was him.) They are going to be surprised.

Is there any real support for progressivism or Obama? Did you see it in the campaign – maybe the empty chairs were jumping up and down for him. Did you see it Monday at the inauguaration? Outside of the “journ0lists”, most of the people who came were more interested in what they were smoking than what he was saying.

No coalition, no “grand realignment”, lesser of two evils.

By: Bishop

Bishop — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:55:07 +0000

This has been the longest hour of my life. Come on clock, TICK!

By: OldEnglish

OldEnglish — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:51:31 +0000

Must it last for a whole hour?

By: Difficultas_Est_Imperium

Difficultas_Est_Imperium — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:48:32 +0000

So once again, a report on Obama and what it means to Obama.

Yawn.