Why we're liberals

Published on April 2, 2008 By Draginol In Democrat

Somehow, I just don't see Abraham Lincoln and Nancy Pelosi being ideological "buds". Eric Alterman once again proves the point that most liberals simply see things as a "good" vs. "evil". Good people are liberals. Bad people are conservatives.

It might make modern day liberals such as Eric Alterman feel good thinking he's in the company of say Thomas Jefferson, but I suspect Jefferson would take issue with today's modern liberal agenda of using the federal government's monopoly on the legal use of force in an attempt to control how we live - whether that be through forced "charity" programs, "hate crime" legislation, laws against smoking in public places, racial quotas, "carbon offsets", public school indoctrination, etc.

Comments

cactoblasta

on Apr 02, 2008

Wow, that guy thinks highly of himself. He reckons he's at the centre of a pretty illustrious crowd there.

You have a real knack for finding the popular kooks, Brad.

Zoologist03

on Apr 02, 2008

proves the point that most liberals simply see things as a "good" vs. "evil".

Kinda has to be...with Jesus on the cover and all that.

~Zoo

Dr Guy

on Apr 03, 2008

I doubt ANY of the founding fathers would condone liberalism as it exists today. All were VERY afraid of a powerful central government, and sought to prevent it from happening. And Jefferson even wrote warning tracts against it. Eric Altman does not have an inflated ego. He is just plain delusional - but then to hear most of the politicians speak today, that is a common malady.

But dont tell them that. Delusional people, as we see today, get violent when someone questions their delusions.

Island Dog

on Apr 03, 2008

I just don't know what to say about this....

Noumenon72

on Apr 07, 2008

Hey, you read lots of books, and I just read a book I have been wanting to recommend to someone. Moneyball. It made me laugh, cry, and be proud to be a geek. You don't have to like baseball.

Eric Alterman is passionate, so I like him better than the MSM, but he's illogical and demonizes everyone. I don't read his blog.

The Eristocrat

on Apr 07, 2008

Eric Alterman once again proves the point that most liberals simply see things as a "good" vs. "evil".

This is absurd. You accuse Alterman of inappropriate oversimplification in the exact same sentence that you proclaim that one person could somehow prove that most liberals think alike.

I would be impressed if it weren't so depressing.

MasonM

on Apr 07, 2008

OK, I get it. The founding fathers fought a war and established a new nation to escape an oppressive and controlling government just so they could set up an oppressive and controlling government, it just took a couple of hundred years to get here?

Ah, makes perfect sense now.

Benmeister

on Apr 07, 2008

Is that a comic book?

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