Filed Under (Culture War, Politics) by Don C on 28-03-2008
JAMES TARANTO:
For decades liberals have trafficked in identity politics. Why is it so hard for them to understand that some people “identify” above all as Americans, and that “God damn America” is a slur against who they are?
It’s an American thing, they wouldn’t understand. (Link)
Yep, usually the most obvious explanation is true.
Also from the same Best of the Web bit:
It also points to a curiosity in the whole practice of political endorsements. If we’re supposed to care that Bill Richardson endorsed Obama, why shouldn’t we also care that Shaaban Abdel Rahim did?
I care.
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Filed Under (Culture War) by Don C on 28-03-2008
The Disgrace of Liberalism, by J. R. Dunn at The American Thinker lays it out nicely.
Followers of the mutant ideology were in no way open with their agenda. Instead they operated under the cover of two pretenses — superior governance and high morality. Liberals presented themselves as technocrats with a clearer understanding of policy and governance than the opposition. Pragmatism was their creed, results their only criteria. Utilizing the old gimmicks of constituent services and favors and the new ones of planning and centralization, liberalism was able to maintain its dominance in backward and desperate areas of the country such as the Northeast and Upper Midwest.
The claim to higher morality was more inchoate, a kind of luminous abstraction beyond the grasp of money-grubbing Republicans, clearly understandable only by liberals themselves. Liberals claimed a monopoly on compassion, decency, and social justice (as defined by themselves), posing as the sole defenders of civic virtue against a horde of backwoodsmen, racists, and religious fanatics.
This elaborate double imposture served to keep liberalism alive for over three decades in the absence of ideas, doctrine, and serious accomplishments. But 2008 has brought the charade to an end. Events this year have exposed, once and for all, in a way that cannot be denied, elided, or spun, Democratic liberals as the party of abject incompetence and institutionalized corruption.
Go read it all. There is some good stuff in there, like wondering what in the Hell did Hilary did to Senator Moynihan.
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