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Crying Bigotry: Last Refuge Of The Liberal
August 28, 2010 Filed in: National Affairs | Socialism | Liberalism | Immigration | Traditional Marriage
Crying Bigotry: Last Refuge Of The Liberal
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER Posted 08/26/2010 07:00 PM ETALL OF US ‘GREAT UNWASHED’ SHOULD READ THIS SUMMARY OF JUST WHERE THINGS ARE STANDING. I FOR ONE AM IN FAVOR OF A DEFEAT OF LIBERALISM AND FOR THAT I HAVE BEEN CALLED DIVISIVE. IF THE SHOE FITS WEAR IT. THERE CAN BE NO COMPROMISE WITH SOCIALISM, IT MUST BE DEFEATED AT EVERY TURN IF WE WANT TO PRESERVE THE WAY OF LIFE WE HAVE COME TO LOVE AND BELIEVE IN. HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!!
“Liberalism under siege is an ugly sight indeed. Just yesterday it was all hope and change and returning power to the people. But the people have proved so disappointing. Their recalcitrance has, in only 19 months, turned the 40-year liberal ascendancy that James Carville predicted into a full retreat.
Ah, the people, the little people, the small-town people, the "bitter" people, as Barack Obama in an unguarded moment once memorably called them, clinging "to guns or religion or" — this part is less remembered — "antipathy toward people who aren't like them."
That's a polite way of saying: clinging to bigotry. And promiscuous charges of bigotry are precisely how our current rulers and their vast media auxiliary react to an obstreperous citizenry that insists on incorrect thinking.
Resistance to the vast expansion of government power, intrusiveness and debt, as represented by the Tea Party? Why, racist resentment toward a black president.
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