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REDSTATE: A "LIBERAL MANIFESTO" AND OTHER HALLOWEEN FRIGHTS.
Over at The American Prospect, they decided to get a head start on scaring the public half to death this Halloween season by publishing a "Liberal Manifesto" which carefully lays out what the authors believe all good liberals should stand for.
This kind of earnestness on the part of the left is something we've grown used to over the years. In fact, it is a defining characteristic of modern liberalism, this cloying self righteousness. It fits in with their constant need to avoid introspection by formulating intellectual conceits based on a heroic self-image, standing up against the villainy of the opposition with only the lantern of truth and a pen to battle evil. Creating a "moral" universe that has about as much foundation as a pool of quicksand, liberals who are constantly defining and redefining themselves fail to see the monumental irony in their efforts to simplify their riot of conceits into any kind of logical or coherent set of principles.
This kind of earnestness on the part of the left is something we've grown used to over the years. In fact, it is a defining characteristic of modern liberalism, this cloying self righteousness. It fits in with their constant need to avoid introspection by formulating intellectual conceits based on a heroic self-image, standing up against the villainy of the opposition with only the lantern of truth and a pen to battle evil. Creating a "moral" universe that has about as much foundation as a pool of quicksand, liberals who are constantly defining and redefining themselves fail to see the monumental irony in their efforts to simplify their riot of conceits into any kind of logical or coherent set of principles.
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