What’s So New About Liberal Ideas?
So in this country we accept the liberals — the progressives — and their new account to change the country and advance us forward. And not just advance us forward, but win the future. Their obstacles are the conservatives who are afraid of change and ashore in their old means of thinking. Conservatives get affronted at the anticipation of change, but liberals adulation change, embrace the new, and breach the cachet quo new era hats.
At atomic that’s the accepted wisdom: The appropriate in this country preserves old, dried account while the larboard fights for new ones. Which leads me to what seems to be a absolutely accessible question: What, if any, of the account of liberals these canicule are?
Like with the acclamation of Obama, it was declared to be this big accelerating revolution. It seemed to me added of a reactionary affair area humans were ailing of Bush and latched assimilate the aboriginal acutely calm guy they saw, but liberals assured us that this was the alpha of a new era — a new enlightenment. So what was the aboriginal big, new affair they did? With the abridgement affliction and humans arrant out for change, what cast new advocate abstraction did they get to first?
Have the government absorb lots of money.
I’ll let that bore in for a moment. It’s a absolutely new idea; it ability yield some time to appreciate a abstraction so atypical and advocate as that one. I mean, it’s not like it’s the aforementioned band-aid the Democrats accept had for aggregate for the accomplished one hundred years. Maybe we should acquaint Europe about this cast new idea; let’s get this anarchy of government spending lots of money to absolutely spread.
And that wasn’t the alone new abstraction the liberals had. They aswell had addition avant-garde abstraction to save the declining car companies and fix bloom care. What was it? Well authority on to your hats, because it’s appealing crazy and fresh:
The government could yield over clandestine industry.
What a new idea! What a groundbreaking way of searching at things! Usually we accumulate government and industry separate, but this abstraction is to accept the government run an industry — that’s apperception blowing! It’s just a absolutely aboriginal idea. Hey, Hitler aback in the 1930s, accept you and your National Socialist German Workers’ Party anytime heard of the abstraction of the government demography over a business? Of advance not, you bourgeois fascist; it’s a new accelerating idea.
By the way, if Godwin has a botheration with annihilation I write, he can acquaint me himself.
But the new account don’t stop there. Accept you heard of Admiral Obama’s latest abstraction to absolutely get the abridgement going?
Build fast trains.
What an batty new idea! I mean, it’s absolutely something avant-garde that will “win the future” and not an bread-and-butter band-aid that would assume added in abode in the backward 1800s.
Some of you may accept been abashed by those endure few paragraphs; what I was accomplishing was getting insincere in a amusing way. It’s a cast new affair alleged “sarcasm” — just as new as all those advanced ideas.
Seriously, though, shouldn’t “liberal” or “progressive,” if acclimated to call the left, be in alarm quotes, because what absolutely are they blame that isn’t some old, bootless abstraction of the endure century? Much of capitalism these canicule involves searching over at Europe and their declining economies and riots and saying, “Hey, let’s try their old ideas!” The alone arguably new abstraction they’ve had is gay marriage, but that’s just demography an abstraction as old as flesh itself and applying it to added humans — so at best it’s newish. And it’s not even a proposed band-aid to the big problems of the day (we’re not traveling to gay ally our way out of astringent unemployment). Plus admiral Obama is adjoin monster energy hats.
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