Reply #40: Bingo [View All]

[bluedogyellowdog]

Liberalism grew out of the Enlightenment and Renaissance, finally brought Europe out of the Middle Ages, and was the basis of all those radical moonbat ideas. You know: "We, the People..." instead of "I, King So-and-So Defender of the Faith by the Grace of the Almighty, Conqueror of Blah Blah Blah...". "All men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" instead of "I, the King, am endowed by the Almighty with power over these bloody peasants. Let them eat cake!"

Liberalism is the vital center of modern politics. Liberal is really synonymous with moderate. Progressives are merely liberals who view the state as having a more active role to take in keeping corporate power in check. Progressives still fall well within the broad middle.

The moonbat left (assorted Marxist-Leninist cults, anarchists, obscure post-structuralist academic theorists, and the like) have nothing to do with liberalism. If anything they are the exact mirror image of the moonbat right who would take us back to the Middle Ages and feudalism given the chance. Both reject liberalism and democracy and are true believers for whom ideology is more important than pragmatism.

When the moonbat right makes Liberal out to be a dirty word, they need to be challenged on what exactly they would replace it with, since liberalism is the very basis of all modern democracies and such radical moonbat ideas as freedom of speech, freedom of the press, popular election of representatives through voting, etc.