Posted 6:43 PM by Gene

TNR quotes Jack Kennedy:

What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label "Liberal?" If by "Liberal" they mean, as they want people to believe, someone who is soft in his policies abroad, who is against local government, and who is unconcerned with the taxpayer's dollar, then the record of this party and its members demonstrate that we are not that kind of "Liberal." But if by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people--their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties--someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal."

Of course that's not what a liberal is any more. A liberal, in today's sense, is someone who is better than his peers, his peers being such a retarded rabble as to justify being soft on foreign and defense policy. A liberal, though speaking soothing tones of liberty, wants to so straitjacket the Republic with his bass-ackwards notions of fairness as to guarantee PC is our secular religion. He can be hypocritical when it suits his purposes, screaming at the top of his never fully filled lungs about the evils of smoking, and global warming, while dismissing the moral disaster of abortion under the fatuous rubric of personal choice, the kind of choice frequently verboten in the world of liberalism. He is humorless, and believes his enemies should be incarcerated, but is not stupid enough to say it, though in thinking it he is little different from bigots who hate people of another skin color. He is a total prig.

But then conservatives have not done well by their word. Today's conservative so revolves around money as to make the miserly the most charitable behavior. Because his world revolves around money he sanctions every conceivable way of getting even with money, even breaking the law. He sees in big business what the aspiring socialist saw in the Kremlin; never mind that, as the late CURE FOR CANCER proved, capitalism can walk hand in hand with totalitarianism because it's evolved into a top-down system, and works best under the supervision of the kind big-bicepped moral pygmies like LEGENDARY WELCH who can and will do anything for money. Yes he will make noises about morality; but as too many pundits like Jo-NAH and JPOD show their hearts aren't in it; to save a child from abortion is not nearly so holy as to save dollar for a zillionaire CEO. Though not quite the total prig the liberal is, having not worked so hard to perfect his anger, the conservative is not far from it.

And so we shrug our shoulders and hang our heads at two political parties who force us to decide the lesser of two evils, and why we must always vote for president holding our noses.