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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ThirdEye who wrote (334579)	12/29/2002 10:43:25 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

<<The roots of modern liberalism go much farther back than Marx. You could go all the way back to Christian antiquity. But the more recent roots are found in Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, the precursors of our own Jefferson, Madison and Hamilton.>> Sorry. You're discussing a liberalism that no longer characterizes the movement that holds a death grip on the Democratic party. Contemporary "liberalism" draws it's philosophy from Karl Marx, and it's political tactics from Lenin. It wasn't called liberalism as late as the Kennedy days. And, indeed, by calling itself "liberal" today, the movement is engaged in one more Big Lie. The principles that characterize today's liberalism are: Treason (disloyality to, or bitter resentment of, the American republic), class hatred (socialism), racism (inspiring anti-white hatred among the illiterate elements of minority groups-in exchange for votes), and cultural rejection (insisting that the republic's Judeo/Christian enlightened tradition is not superior-indeed is inferior to-the backward cultures that the republic was created to protect against). This is all hardly liberal by any traditional definition, and that is suitable for a movement that thrives on lies and hatred. The entrenched totalitarian elements that call themselves "liberal" today would be best described by more fundamental terms: Communist of Facist, to which they bear far more resemblence. And this is the movement that you are all praising John Kerry for representing in his presidential bid...