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Harvey J. Kaye writes that, even with our successes, with our rich history, liberals don't fight back hard enough.
"The Founders—not just the likes of Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, and Hamilton, but all the more Thomas Paine’s people, American artisans, farmers, and laborers—projected the United States as a grand experiment in democracy. By their words and actions, they articulated America’s historic purpose and promise. For all of their terrible faults and failings, they envisioned, demanded, and made real the ideals of freedom, equality, and democracy. And when ensuing generations of Americans confronted crises that placed the nation and its historic purpose and promise in jeopardy, they felt that democratic imperative and impulse and found it in themselves—led by Lincoln and FDR, respectively—to confront and prevail over their enemies not by suspending or abandoning the nation’s finest ideals, but by advancing them.
Steele and his fellow conservatives do not want us to remember that history, that purpose and promise, that exceptionalism. And so far, contrary to Steele’s contentions, they—with the deference, if not collusion, of all too many moderates and liberals—are actually winning not just the class war, but also, in a most critical way, the culture war, as well."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/02/the-shame-of-conservati...
Comments
I read through it but all the time I was reading I was thinking the problem lies in a backlash to civil rights. That it isn't so much liberals not fighting back but the backlash has been suicidal.
by trkingmomoe on Tue, 03/03/2015 - 11:12pm
That could be, Momoe--the Democrats did lose the South over the Civil Rights Movement, but the liberals' official inferiority complex took hold when Ronald Reagan seduced the press into reporting that liberals were nothing more than naive children clinging to the old FDR socialism.
He was like a steamroller, using his supposed charm to undermine unions (a former union leader himself) and to begin the long goodbye to U.S manufacturing by encouraging free market ideas like outsourcing and off-shoring.
His entire presidency was an all-out attack on liberalism, which might not have been as effective if he hadn't had the press in his pocket. From there, the big money interests saw their chance and the propaganda against liberals never let up.
The worst part of it was that liberals began to believe that, with so many against them, they must be doing something wrong. Many of them even changed their name to "progressives", as if sticking with "liberal" labeled them as. . .naive children clinging to the old FDR socialism.
by Ramona on Wed, 03/04/2015 - 8:04am
Shelby Steele?
Orating on high from the tower of Stanford University's Hoover Institute conservative think tank here in California, he's been wrong before and he'll be wrong again.
His tome from 2007:
After the re-election of Obama Steele is quoted as saying in the New York Times, "...that he was the one who slapped the subtitle onto the book — 'in about 30 seconds' when Barack Obama was trailing Hillary Rodham Clinton by about 25 percentage points."
There is a saying, "The river is a mile wide and an inch deep."
~OGD~
by oldenGoldenDecoy on Fri, 03/06/2015 - 4:39pm
The question is what the poverty level would be without the Society. Ask Shelby to name one Republican led state that has seen advances made by the poor. Ask him to name any country that fared well using Conservative economics. Arnie killed California, a Democrat is bringing it back. Walker is killing Wisconsin, but is championed as a Presidential candidate. Brownbeck is choking the life out of Kansas. If Paul Ryan's budget had been put into place, the country would be in a Depression. Name one thing of value that current Conservatives offer.
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 03/04/2015 - 12:10am
I don't know; does Shelby care whether the poor advance or not? American conservatives don't seem concerned with what happens to the poor.
I'm surprised that Kaye asked rhetorically "does anyone want to" get rid of government regulations on business and the market. A considerable number of people do, although I think a disproportionate number of them are wealthy.
by Aaron Carine on Sun, 03/08/2015 - 11:13am