Michael E. Young – Before I was old enough to understand the political difference between the right and left, I knew that certain things didn’t add up. I recall pondering how Democrats could ever win elections with the stated goal of raising taxes. Who would willingly sign up to hand over more of his money to the government? What a ridiculous sales pitch. Do they think people are idiots? Um…yep. The joke was clearly on me.
I don’t consider the individuals on the left my enemies. I think of many of them as causalities of our Democrat media complex. The real enemy of the USA is the malignant ideology of the progressive left, which has been the enemy of our form of government since day one.
The first thing that must be clarified is that liberalism no longer describes today’s left in our country. At the core of liberalism is the embrace of the rights of the individual above all else, which is the purpose of the Bill of Rights and the foundation of our country’s law structure. The left has abandoned liberalism, so it is oxymoronic for the left to describe its members as liberals. They are actively attacking liberalism and abandoning all the classic Democrat champions of liberalism, such as Alan Dershowitz. Continue reading
Daniel Greenfield – A civil war has begun.