What is the difference?
What is the difference?
The British model of liberalism gives us a good example of where Democrats would like to take us.
E.J. Dionne Jr. asks, “Why can’t the left get any respect?”
Whenever you use the word “left” in American politics, you feel almost compelled to add quotation marks. Today’s left is not talking about nationalizing industry, abolishing capitalism or destroying the rich. What passes for “left” in American politics is quite moderate by historical standards. ~washingtonpost.com
Here is where I disagree. To say that the left is not talking about it’s ultimate goals doesn’t mean that they don’t plan to get there someday. The definition of left hasn’t really changed that much. Of course the decades of liberal dominance are over and are largely discredited by the nature of the the policies themselves. It turns out that a patronizing nanny-state is a turnoff for most voters. Yet for some reason it is not for the left. Why is that?
E.J. Dionne is either dissembling or ignorant of the truth that is right before him. (I’ll admit that there’s also the possibility that he is both dissembling and ignorant.) Democrats and the left are in fact intent on, “nationalizing industry, abolishing capitalism and destroying the rich.” All one has to do is listen, yes, actually listen to the words of the current Democratic candidates for President. For even more pronounced positions we could listen to or read the words of thousands of other ‘progressive’ activists and leftist apparatchiks. DailyKos, MoveOn.org, …you name it.
The left is moving further left by any standard and the argument that Dionne is trying to put forth is that in relation to the outright communist leftists of thirty years ago today’s left is mild in comparison.
Shoved into the internet 'tubes' on July 28, 2007, by Hegemonic Pundit,
under the following categories: 21st century socialism, hegemony, idiotarians, leftists, liberal agenda, liberals
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