"The Liberal Tradition is a legitimate part of the American experience. Its world view is wrong. But it does not amount to treason!"
I wouldn't say it's treason either. But liberalism, in its current incarnation, is a kind of intellectual and spiritual disease. Your basic Democratic Party activist full-monty liberal today is a kind of freak. And would be regarded as such by the liberals who founded this nation. They hate God, they especially hate Jesus, they hate and fear ordinary people, they have a soft spot in their hearts for dictators and tyrants, they simultaneously believe it's OK to murder unborn babies but wrong to execute murderers, etc. etc. As P.J. O'Rourke observed somewhere, it is no small accomplishment to arrive at such a screwed-up state.
Liberalism--now and then
"The Liberal Tradition is a legitimate part of the American experience. Its world view is wrong. But it does not amount to treason!"
I wouldn't say it's treason either. But liberalism, in its current incarnation, is a kind of intellectual and spiritual disease. Your basic Democratic Party activist full-monty liberal today is a kind of freak. And would be regarded as such by the liberals who founded this nation. They hate God, they especially hate Jesus, they hate and fear ordinary people, they have a soft spot in their hearts for dictators and tyrants, they simultaneously believe it's OK to murder unborn babies but wrong to execute murderers, etc. etc. As P.J. O'Rourke observed somewhere, it is no small accomplishment to arrive at such a screwed-up state.