My friend Alan Caruba was the author of the very conservative website called Warning Signs ,and he graciously allowed me to publish is work. Sadly Alan passed away five years ago, but one of the things about Alan's work was it's timelessness. I think this 2012 article is as valuable now as it was then.
On June 21, 2012 he posted the article, Why Liberals are Like Zombies, saying:
I hope Barack Obama lives to a very old age. I want him to look back at the wreckage of the Democratic Party and the senility of Liberalism that has wreaked such havoc on the world stage. To me, Liberalism is a zombie philosophy, devoid of any connection with reality, but still able to cause great harm......
Occasionally I read that the ranks of Liberals have continued to thin over the decades. The Reagan presidency in the 1980s gave momentum to the rise of conservatism that had begun in the 1950s, but the politics of the nation no matter whether a Republican was in office or not still reflects Liberal ideas and agendas. The government and the debt continues to grow.........He went on to promote “The Death of Liberalism” by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., who outlines in his book "the failures of Liberalism that have brought America to the brink of financial failure as the result of its misbegotten belief in Big Government, unsustainable “entitlement” programs, and its penchant for taxing everything. Here were some of the comments from that post.
Guy in Ohio said...The problem is that even people who think of themselves as conservatives are prone to falling for the endless promises of goodies coming from our ruling class. Until people wake up and realize that they themselves are part of the problem, and quit falling for all the pandering, things aren't going to improve much. It seems that Benjamin Franklin was probably right when he said ... "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic..."If we can get enough of the population to realize the wisdom of those words and start acting like adults instead of children, we might have a chance to turn this around, but I'm not holding my breath ...
Lime Lite said...And yet it's liberals who are in power where it matters: heads of government departments and local councils - where the general conservative population have to live under their loony rules and regulations. Liberalism will never die - there is, after all, a fool born every minute. The Greenies and the liberals should be banned to their own little island where they can live in their hessian sacks and in peace with one another and leave the common sense people to their own devices!
LarryOldtimer said...I am neither a "conservative nor a modern liberal. I am a realist. It is not large federal spending programs that are bad, it is the purpose of those large federal spending programs that is useless. Being a professional civil engineer, I am very qualified in the matter of "Engineering economics", calculating all of the real costs, calculating benefits over the life of the constructed device, (wind and solar energy devices) and it is obvious to me that the cost of construction for solar energy and wind installations and the maintenance are far greater than any energy benefits derived. In other words, these concepts when constructed and put into actual use are noting more than economic follies.
There have been large federal spending projects which caused very returns on investment. Some are the Rural Free Delivery of mail, the Rural Energy agency, and the space program. In my humble opinion, the only federal spending should be on positive programs which individuals or groups of individuals could not do for themselves. All other federal, state and local spending is nothing than governmental taxpayer waste.
Rich Kozlovich said...It turns out that the Liberals are in a quandary (both parties). There is not enough money to throw at everyone and their traditional allies have eaten up so much of the public’s finances that they are in a position to bankrupt all the local governments in the nation, especially the teachers unions. Now we have Democratic mayors fighting the very people they catered to; public and teachers unions which they signed super sweetheart contracts with to gain their political support; because the local people have had it with all of these insane deals.
We have the racial issues that have been the backbone of the Democratic Party ever since the Republicans passed all the civil rights laws that the Democrats fought against and now claim credit for as their own.
Illegal immigration is a jobs issue. Blacks will have to compete with these illegals and they don’t like it; and the illegals, especially Hispanics, want ever more latitude regarding what is legal….and of course everyone is ignoring the decent, patient and honest immigrants trying to get in through legal channels that can’t come into the country because there are so many illegal’s taking their place.
The Jews have traditionally been liberal and Democratic voters for almost 100 years and has been a rock hard foundation for liberals. However, that is changing. The leaders of the liberal party and movement, have turned anti-Semitic and anti-Israel to the point that Jews worldwide, including Europe, are being openly persecuted and they are scared. Rightly so! Although the story is still fascinating. New York Jews will still be voting liberal...although that is changing.
The two groups that have absolutely been foundational to liberalism is Big Labor and Big Green. Now they have to turn on Big Labor to appease Big Breen, i.e., the XL pipeline, and they will have to turn on Big Green to appease Big Labor. Both of whom are coming under attack from the public. As we review this situation the question that one has to ask is this.
What reason do they have to exist at all?
They exist to have power. That is all the more reason to reject their views, their actions, their philosophy and them personally. I keep hearing that the left isn't evil, just wrong. Wrong! Leftists, including the fascist and communist monsters of the 20th century and the environmentalists, have killed over 200 million people in the last 75 years, and the greenies are still at it. Anyone who supports them share in the blame for the evil they have wrought.
Alan Caruba said...Rich: So many stupid people and policies. So much of a mess to clean up, if we have the time left to do it. Congratulations on a great analysis.
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