Comments on: Spoken Like a True Liberal

By: Jacob Smith

Jacob Smith — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 06:02:40 +0000

I’m asking myself: How can it be that I’ve never ran through your site before? It’s a great one! House cancels hearings on Katrina: http://whippleworld.com/?p=3109 , hours drive from where

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 25 May 2005 16:20:45 +0000

Some good related points are here.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 25 May 2005 05:03:17 +0000

bls, are you really a “leftist who supports the war in Iraq?”

“Leftism” is undergirded by an unshakeable faith in the U.N., and a chronic distrust of American military and commercial power. Operation Iraqi Freedom and the reelection of “W” refute all those precepts.

How do you face your brethren at the water-cooler each morning, man?
-Steve

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 May 2005 23:41:30 +0000

Most bright people over the age of 30 (the age the frontal lobes are fully matured) have exited the leftist camp. You cannot really blame the children for their folly.

By: Bruce Chang

Bruce Chang — Tue, 24 May 2005 22:14:37 +0000

bls, the article specifies “some common cause”; the advance of freedom, however much you may hate to impute it to the machinations and/or blunders of the Bush Administration, was one of the big reasons many voters voted for Bush. Cut through your disgust with the Bushies (the ones actually on his political team instead of simply voting for him), and all you’ll have is your last paragraph. See? Not so different after all. Oh, and by the way, did you notice the title at all? There is, after all, a distinction to be made between liberals and Leftists.

Anonymous, co-option is the best form of flattery, to mangle an old saying. So get the stick out of your butt and rejoice in the triumph of liberal ideas. :O)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 May 2005 22:05:57 +0000

So, as usual: liberals (or liberalism) do(es) all the work and conservatives claim all the credit.

This time it was instantaneous, and basically due to identity confusion. Usually, it takes about 30 years for right-wingers to finally unclench enough to realize that liberals were right, and to co-opt their innovations.

By: bls

bls — Tue, 24 May 2005 21:59:09 +0000

Don’t flatter yourselves, Boyz. Most of us “leftists” who support the war in Iraq find almost nothing else in the way of “common cause” with Bush voters.

We applaud the forward strategy of freedom in the Middle East – and loathe the “religious” right’s backward strategy of freedom here at home, as so-called “Christians” attempt to roll back the secular state and establish the Evangelical Church.

We detest the wing-nut right’s current version of “conservatism,” and the only reason we’re supporting Bush in Iraq is because it’s a liberal venture. So the project is now to convince pull independents away from the nuts on the right, and to jettison the “loony” left. We’ll get some Republicans, too, who can’t stand their own party, either.