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Offline ReardenSteel

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The Disgrace of Liberalism
« on: March 27, 2008, 09:59:06 AM »
The Disgrace of Liberalism
By J.R. Dunn
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/03/the_disgrace_of_liberalism.html

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2008 marks the end of liberalism as a governing force in the same way that 1968 marked the end of liberalism as a political doctrine.


American liberals spent the '60s seeing their programs and policies collapse one after the other. The War on Crime, the War on Poverty, civil rights legislation, Vietnam, all were either unmitigated disasters or textbook examples of the law of unintended consequences. The Democrats went into the 1968 presidential election as crippled as any political party in American history, choked with failure, bereft of ideas, and facing a general uprising from their own younger elements.

Can it be? An interesting case is made in the above article. A very good read in any case. (I got yer hope of change right here folks)
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"When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed."

- Ayn Rand
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=1826

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Re: The Disgrace of Liberalism
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2008, 10:09:09 AM »
Excellent summation!!
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I can see November 2 from my house!!!

Spread my work ethic, not my wealth.

Forget change, bring back common sense.
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No, my friends, there’s only one really progressive idea. And that is the idea of legally limiting the power of the government. That one genuinely liberal, genuinely progressive idea — the Why in 1776, the How in 1787 — is what needs to be conserved. We need to conserve that fundamentally liberal idea. That is why we are conservatives. --Bill Whittle
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