Arrogant Brown?

What we call the left is driven by the fury of race hatred and psychopathology.

Conservatives did well to spurn extremists, racists and the demon-driven in the past. That the so-called "liberals" are not now doing the same is their downwall.

Lou - Liberals for a time were maintained in power by an alliance with the left, and they still hope the left will help them regain power. As that hope fades, and the realization sinks in that the left has alienated much of America and will further discredit liberals as long as they maintain the alliance, look for liberals to start to distance themselves from the left.

At this stage in time, the venom coming from the left towards the big media outlets -- especially when it comes from some of the better known personalities of the left than from anonymous e-mails -- results not in anger but with introspection by many of the targets. While they may brush off critics of the right as angry white males (and/or racists, sexists, homophobic, etc.) who don't know what they're talking about, attacks from the left for now get a "Gosh, we must be doing something wrong" reaction, where the reporters and editors are far more likely to critique their own work than to brush off the critcism as simplay coming from a bunch of cranks.

That may change, and is to a certain degree due to the vitrol in the recent attacks, but it's going to be a while before critics on the far left are treated with the same disdain those on the right receive.

Here's another example of this sort of thing.

"Liberals for a time were maintained in power by an alliance with the left, and they still hope the left will help them regain power."

Just how does one distinguish liberals from the left? They all look alike to me.

erp. I had the same question, but was too proud to ask.

erp;

Check the hands. If they still have a grip on reality, it's a liberal. Otherwise it's a leftist.

Sorry for the double post.

AOG. Check their hands? I don't want to get that close.

erp - This may be a somewhat idiosyncratic definition, but I think it marks a real distinction. Leftism lies on a spiritual axis, while liberalism lies on an intellectual axis. It's possible to be both a leftist and a liberal, but many liberals are not leftists in spirit.

Leftists are those who reject love of neighbor, God, and God's morality, and are ultimately found on Christ's left (see Matthew 25). Liberals will, hopefully, be found on Christ's right on Judgment Day; they adhere to basic God-given principles of morality, and bear some affection for the 350-year-old liberal tradition (thus their embrace of the name) which includes the American founding and a strong Judeo-Christian heritage. They are misguided and mistaken on many matters, but their hearts are not filled with hate of the kind that disturbed Mr. Brown and Ms. Howell.

I'm tempted to send him an email, "Welcome to the world of the conservatives, Mr. Brown."

We've been putting up with this for decades.

Perhaps more important, most conservatives are liberals:

http://conservativeliberalism.blogspot.com/2005/12/via-matt-scofield-with-thanks-to-james.html

Interesting to see the quote from Katy Couric. I saw a comment on a LLL website that complained that Katy Couric and Matt Lauer were bought and paid for by the right wing because they worked for GE and GE was notably an ultra right wing company. The same goes for the rest of the media - all bought and paid for by the refuglicans and with a direct line to Karl Rove.

There are none so blind as will not see. I find it absolutely fascinating that the LLL think the MSM is in the pocket of the republican and takes all directions from Karl Rove.

pj, Good thought, but based on your second paragraph, shouldn't the axes be reversed?

jd - Well, I often use "liberal" to refer to right-spirited liberals only. Indeed, it's hard to be part of the liberal tradition and be a leftist. Most leftists go for things like Communism or fascism, or for deceit, pretending to be something more attractive than they in fact are. So positions on the intellectual and spiritual axes are correlated. (As one should expect.)

But no, I think the choice to love and stand with God, or to refuse to love and stand against Him, is the ultimate spiritual choice; while matters of ideology -- "that sounds right" -- are intellectual choices that may not cohere with spiritual ones. Many people, the young especially, have ideas that are fundamentally inconsistent with their spirits -- thus the discomfort many feel when their ideas (e.g., support for abortion) lead them to ally themselves with the distasteful people who relish death.

Agreed. Must have misunderstood the original post.

question: can the left survive in a connected age ?

toe - Profound question. The left, like the poor, will always be with us, but they'll be much fewer in number, and much more miserable, in a connected age. They'll be obvious misfits.

toe: yes, but not in ways they'd like.