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	60 Hard Truths About "Liberals"
		Liberals use moralistic platitudes and catchy phrases like "social justice" and "The Brotherhood of Man" to appeal to the naive masses who are duped into believing that the ultimate goals of Liberals are genuinely benign and beneficient.
		Liberals know that a society without moral absolutes and a society without strong emphasis upon personal responsibility will fall like a ripe apple into their greedy socialist clutches because self reliance and rugged individualism are traits that are only found amongst moral peoples who come from strong families.
		Liberals are obsessed with demonstrating their putative "moral superiority." Thus even though they live their lives without really helping anyone, the political activism they engage in is dedicated to convincing themselves that they are truly good people.
	famguardian.org /Subjects/Politics/Articles/Liberals.htm (3116 words)

	Liberalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Liberalism can trace its roots back to the humanism that began to challenge the authority of the established church during Renaissance, and the Whigs of the Glorious Revolution in Great Britain, whose assertion of their right to choose their king can be seen as a precursor to claims of popular sovereignty.
		Liberals are in favour of a pluralist system in which differing political and social views, even those viewed as extreme or fringe compete for political power on a democratic basis and have the opportunity to achieve power through periodically held elections.
		Liberals claim to believe that war can be abolished and world peace and economic prosperity can flourish if all nations loyally adhere to a world organization of all nations (the United Nations Organization), under the same law and equity, and with power to enforce strict observance of all international obligations freely entered into.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberalism (8787 words)

	Political Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		The former is often referred to as ‘classical liberalism’ leaving the latter unchanged or adapted to ‘social democratic liberalism’, which is a rather confusing mouthful; ‘modern liberalism’ is an easier term to wield and shall be used unless the emphasis is laid upon the socialist leanings of such modern liberals.
		The liberal seeks the best form of government which will permit the individual to pursue life as he or she sees fit within a neutral framework, and it is the possibility of a neutral framework that critics challenge the liberal ideal.
		Liberalism turns to reason, which is broadly accepted as the unifying element to human societies, but conservatives believe that reason can be highly overestimated for it belongs to single individuals and hence to their own political motives, errors, prejudices and so on.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/p/polphil.htm (6111 words)

	Touchstone Archives: Supremely Modern Liberals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Liberals insisted that freedom be exercised responsibly, but their sense of what was responsible had to be brought in from sources outside liberalism itself, usually from the moral inheritance from the past, about which they felt deep and steadily increasing ambivalence.
		Liberals who could not accept this, nonetheless could not easily oppose it, since the liberal idea of freedom had merged almost seamlessly with the modernist claim that every assertion of personal autonomy, every assault on established values, is truly liberating.
		Modernism is an exemplar of Zeno’s Paradox, whereby it is impossible to arrive at a goal because it is necessary repeatedly to traverse half the remaining distance to the goal.
	www.touchstonemag.com /docs/issues/17.4docs/17-04-021.html (5063 words)

	JANE FONDA & TED TURNER & DEMOCRATS WHO LOVE DICTATORSHIPS
		Modern liberals are the very contradiction of the term liberal.
		Modern liberals believe that bigger government making more and more intrusive decisions for its' citizens is preferable to letting the citizens running their own lives.
		Modern liberals have changed the education system from basic education to prepare children for life as adults into propaganda centers.
	www.papillonsartpalace.com /jane.htm (438 words)

	WEBCommentary(tm) - The Cult of Modern Liberalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In contrast, modern liberals fear open discussion of ideas, are characterized by their devotion to the principle that government can cure all ills, are intolerant of ideas at odds with modern “liberalthink,” and possess a narrow-minded devotion to modern liberal orthodoxy.
		Modern liberals may belong to a religious organization, but their true devotion is to the tenets of modern liberalism.
		Modern liberals are simply too intolerant of ideas that deviate from the tenets of their political orthodoxy to participate honestly and intelligently in any meaningful discussion with those who hold different views.
	www.webcommentary.com /asp/ShowArticle.asp?id=websterb&date=060626 (1545 words)

	Be Fair to Liberals
		Liberals (the usual but certainly unsatisfactory name for a hazy collection of skeptics, relativists, ideologues, and sentimentalists held together mainly by opposing the same things) believe that truth evolves and grows and changes, or at least that our understanding of truth evolves so radically that earlier certainties may be replaced by new and contradictory truths.
		Liberals are being perfectly logical and acting with complete integrity in refusing to leave their Churches just because they dont accept some or all of their traditional teachings.
		Liberal churchmen are not cheaters who may be publicly shamed and then ignored till they repent, as one ignores ill-mannered children, but soldiers in an opposing army ordered to take the ground we've been given and ordered to defend.
	www.holytrinitynewrochelle.org /BeFairtoLiberals.html (1756 words)

	What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong with It?
		Modern-day liberals often theorize that conservatives use "social issues" as a way to mask economic objectives, but this is almost backward: the true goal of conservatism is to establish an aristocracy, which is a social and psychological condition of inequality.
		When a Republican senator referred to "the few liberals", hardly any liberals gave any sign of getting what he meant: as all conservatives got just fine, he was appropriating the phrase "the few", referring to the aristocracy as opposed to "the many", and sticking this phrase in a false and mechanical way onto liberals.
		Yet in recent years conservatives have managed to stick this word onto liberals, the notion being that "government" (which liberals supposedly endorse and conservatives supposedly oppose) is hierarchical (whereas corporations, the military, and the church are somehow vaguely not).
	polaris.gseis.ucla.edu /pagre/conservatism.html (12115 words)

	Liberalism, Democracy, and the State: Reclaiming the Unity of Liberal Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Modern liberals retorted that democratic government is the only institution able to counter act the enormous private power exercised by business.
		Therefore modern liberals looked to democratic government to provide services they did not trust the private sphere to provide, as well as to create greater material equality among citizens by means of graduated taxation and other redistributive measures.
		Modern liberals are good at seeing this tendency in the corporate world and classical liberals are good at seeing it in public bureaucracies.
	www.dizerega.com /libunity.htm (2500 words)

	The modern liberal worldview
		The religion of the modern liberal is atheism (a.k.a.
		Modern Western liberals believe that the primary role of government is to ensure the political (and economic) equality and security of every citizen.
		Modern liberals seek to empower the federal government and its vast bureaucracies for the sake of “justice,” “security,” and/or “equality.” Individual citizens should not necessarily be held accountable for their own actions; rather, government is responsible for the happiness and the well-being of every citizen.
	www.renewamerica.us /columns/weaver/030304 (2483 words)

	"libertarianism"? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Modern liberalism tends to support personal freedom while opposing economic freedom; conservatism tends to support economic freedom while opposing personal freedom; wise classical liberals consistently support freedom, period.
		A smaller, more radical group of classical liberals argues that the more important a task is, the more important it not be left to government, and applies this logic to education and even to the enforcement of property rights.
		Whether classical liberalism exhibits a true qualitative dichotomy, as argued above, or simply a continuous spectrum of declining faith in the state, from modern liberalism to anarcho-capitalism, is debateable.
	www.ocf.berkeley.edu /~sjblatt/apology/liberalism.html (592 words)

	Liberals And Conservatives - Lockergnome's Problem Solvers
		Liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, invention of group therapy and democratic voting to see how to divide the beer and meat that the conservatives provided.
		Liberals only believe in whatever laws are appealing to them, such as the privilege of making a living by taxing conservatives.
		Modern Judges are all liberals as they do not produce anything except chaos, and are paid with confiscated tax money.
	help.lockergnome.com /index.php?showtopic=18948 (2425 words)

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		Liberals confront the charge that we are anti-business.
		Modern liberals like to strike a "third-way" pose of being pro-entrepreneur and pro-market while socially liberal on such issues as tolerance and the environment.
		Old-time anti-corporate liberals, such as trade unionists and Naderites, are said to be stuck in a 1930s time warp.
	www.prospect.org /print-friendly/print/V12/21/kuttner-r.html (837 words)

	OpinionEditorials.com — Modern Liberals: The New Tenants in the Communist Regime - Hauck
		Modern Liberals: The New Tenants in the Communist Regime
		Liberals adamantly promote relativism, which basically consists of the idea that what is “good” means that which is “socially approved” by the majority in a given culture.
		Liberals view the Constitution as a living document, with its principles and rights constantly changing to include whatever they want—such as determining that the right to engage in sodomy is a fundamental right.
	www.opinioneditorials.com /freedomwriters/khauck_20050226.html (1880 words)

	OpinionEditorials.com — Modern Liberals: The New Tenants in the Communist Regime - Hauck
		Modern Liberals: The New Tenants in the Communist Regime
		Liberals adamantly promote relativism, which basically consists of the idea that what is “good” means that which is “socially approved” by the majority in a given culture.
		Liberals view the Constitution as a living document, with its principles and rights constantly changing to include whatever they want—such as determining that the right to engage in sodomy is a fundamental right.
	opinioneditorials.com /freedomwriters/khauck_20050226.html (1880 words)

	Everything That's Wrong with Modern "Liberals" - Asia Finest Discussion Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Were he alive, liberal philosopher John Stuart Mill would probably suggest the opposite: That the arrogance of liberals today, who assume they are always right and their counterparts always wrong, is a product of the dimmest of bulbs.
		The modern liberal is quickly accomplishing what conservatives on the far right have long hoped would happen: The distortion of classical liberal values into a brand of elitism that renders contemporary liberalism irrelevant to much of the North American mainstream.
		There are liberals out there who are educated and sincere in their beliefs, and then there are those Hollywood-influenced college snob liberals, in their chic clothes, sipping from their Starbucks lattes, feeling a false sense of intellectual superiority and all.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=22321 (2967 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Modern liberalism wishes to rob America of its unique heritage and to replace it with a revolutionary concept of human nature and human governance.
		From these themes-which reach their symbolic zenith in modern liberalism-the author spins out the social maladies of the present world, one by one: affirmative action, the culture of death, radical feminism, et al.
		Perhaps modern liberals could read the pejoratives aimed at them (often quite virulently so) and reinforce some preconceived notion of their opposition as embittered elders.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060987197?v=glance (3777 words)

	Erik Schecter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A classical liberal, or libertarian, I believe that the individual is to be taken as a separate moral entity, free from the demands of some higher cause (King, Race, Art, Equality, etc.).
		Modern liberals, like my friend, believe that negative rights alone do not guarantee equality of opportunity or real choice, so liberty in a free market will be the kind only enjoyed by the affluent.
		Modern liberals must explain how one group, because it is larger, may empty the pockets of another group of people, because it is smaller.
	criterion.uchicago.edu /issues/ii4/schechter.html (1736 words)

	History of Liberals and Conservatives
		Liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, invention of group therapy and democratic voting to see how to divide the beer and meat that the conservatives provided.
		Liberals only believe in whatever laws are appealing to them, such as the privilege of making a living by taxing conservatives.
		Modern Judges are all liberals as they do not produce anything except chaos, and are paid with confiscated tax money.
	www.riflewarrior.com /history.html (907 words)

	Modern Liberalism’s Central Flaw
		Modern liberals sadly cling to their most grievous flaw and that is what makes them, even if at times only inadvertently, fundamentally misanthropic.
		Yet, of course, modern liberals are notoriously preemptive concerning every other hazards they suspect surrounds us—their notorious precautionary principles in the area of environmental and other regulatory law are perfect examples.
		Modern liberals don’t get it—it is a sign of colossal lack of civility to deal with those with whom one disagrees as if they were beasts, mindless brutes to be caged and tamed by force.
	www.freemarketnews.com /Analysis/117/3479/2006-01-18a.asp?nid=3479&wid=117 (744 words)

	Modern Liberals Loathe Justice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		David Frum concluded his piece on the death penalty by stating that it's punishment, not the death penalty, that modern liberals object to.
		Modern liberalism is a complete perversion of justice.
		Justice is only one of the virtues we must rescue from the insanity of modern liberalism.
	www.capitalism.org /glennw/letters4/loathe_justice.htm (197 words)

	Fascist Tendencies in Modern Liberals [Free Republic]
		Modern mythology holds that the political spectrum can be neatly defined, with communists on the far left, socialists and liberals to the left of centre, conservatives on the right, and Fascists and Nazis on the far right.
		I have always marveled at the fact modern liberals honestly believe they are the antitheses of Nazis, when in reality they are simply a more genteel version of that breed.
		It makes explicit what we have known all along: that liberal, gun-grabbing, "for the children", thought policing leftists are too busy patting themselves on the back for their "progressive thinking" to realize that they are just stormtroopers in Birkenstocks.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a38e7e2961831.htm (3129 words)

	AN EXAMINATION OF THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CLASSICAL LIBERALS AND MODERN LIBERALS
		Modern Liberal: Believes the very idea of the pursuit of Justice an imperfect ideal, and therefore not a worthy objective.
		Modern Liberal: Believes Rights derived by ever-malleable Human Social Contract, and therefore open to debate as to their nature, extent, and character.
		Modern Liberal: Expects liberty to be granted to him as a birthright, but is unwilling to fight for or expand the franchise to his fellow man if any real sacrifice is called for, or any real struggle is involved.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-bloggers/1747871/posts (474 words)

	Modern Liberals' Horrid Legacy
		Moral relativism (the idol of modern liberalism) is creating a society of vacant animals instead of conceptual men -- a society of self-absorbed, alienated, materialistically obsessed creatures of nihilism voting themselves into the yoke of tyranny.
		This, modern liberalism gives it by means of the propaganda being taught in today's schools.
		And that is through restoration of the classical liberalism of the Founders with its acceptance of moral absolutes and the necessity to inculcate them into the youth of society as they are growing into adults who are to run society.
	www.freemarketnews.com /Analysis/93/3109/2005-12-07.asp?wid=93&nid=3109 (1866 words)

	Planck's Constant: The Difference Between Liberals and Conservatives
		Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy, group hugs, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that conservatives provided.
		Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water.
		Now liberals may rant and rave and call me names for spreading hate and divisiveness, but what they will never, ever do is dispute the underlying truth of the argument.
	plancksconstant.org /blog1/2006/12/the_difference_betwe_1.html (916 words)

	Democrats lies
		The goal of the Modern Liberal, then, isn't to apply fact, reason, logic, evidence, morality, decency and justice in an effort to find the best of all possible explanations and policies but rather to manipulate these things in order to uphold their preordained conclusion that all things are the same.
		The Modern Liberal — the dominant force in today's Democratic Party has but a single criterion for their policies: the objective of tearing down that which is exceptionally good, right and successful while champion all that is evil, wrong and failed.
		That is, the Modern Liberal marches down the streets of San Francisco cheering on Hezbellah not because they’re rationally, morally and intellectually thought through the terrorist group’s motives and actions but simply because it is an opportunity to attack the Jews.
	brookesnews.com /061311sayet.html (862 words)

	Machan's Musings - Modern Liberalism's Central Flaw
		I am also convinced that many of the people modern liberals wish to protect from ostracism by others deserve that protection-in the work place, at schools, in clubs, and so forth.
		Yet, of course, modern liberals are notoriously preemptive concerning every other hazards they suspect surrounds us-their notorious precautionary principles in the area of environmental and other regulatory law are perfect examples.
		Modern liberals don't get it-it is a sign of colossal lack of civility to deal with those with whom one disagrees as if they were beasts, mindless brutes to be caged and tamed by force.
	rebirthofreason.com /Articles/Machan/Machans_Musings_-_Modern_Liberalisms_Central_Flaw.shtml (729 words)

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