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To: LindyBill who wrote (88798)	11/30/2004 7:54:10 PM
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Punitive Liberalism: The Next Generation By Ed Driscoll · November 30, 2004 12:15 PM · The Return of the Primitive Rich Lowry writes that it's the mindset on college campuses: The left's new faith, now that socialism has died, is pessimism. I'm struck by this when I'm on college campuses. I want to say to these kids (and professors), “OK, you think Bush's foreign policy is a disaster, but what do you believe, what's the alternative, what's your vision?” There is none. These people believe in nothing. They aren't even soft-headed idealists anymore because Bush's idealistic rhetoric has prompted them to reject idealism. All they have is a smug faith in American failure, that whatever we do--literally whatever we do: whether its militaristic or altruistic or something in between--is wrong and doomed to fail. Nihilism is always a fashionable pose for youth; it's sad that it's surely reinforced by what their professors--who were part of the first generation of punitive liberals--are telling them. eddriscoll.com

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