Today's Liberal Thought = Oxymoron

The times they are a-changin'.

Liberalism today is much different than in it was in the '60's, an era when it was reaching its heady pinnacle, a time when deep thinking meant a hell of a lot more than deep "feeling".

Mr. Prager explains today's liberalism here.

Mr. Prager points out that today's liberals substitute feeling for thought, and how the "deep thinking" left transformed their party into a narrow minded, prejudiced party.

Excerpt:

Here is a list of terms liberals apply to virtually every idea or action with which they differ:

Racist
Sexist
Homophobic
Islamophobic
Imperialist
Bigoted
Intolerant

And here is the list of one-word descriptions of what liberals are for:

Peace
Fairness
Tolerance
The poor
The disenfranchised
The environment

These two lists serve contemporary liberals in at least three ways.

First, they attack the motives of non-liberals and thereby morally dismiss the non-liberal person.

Second, these words make it easy to be a liberal -- essentially all one needs to do is to memorize this brief list and apply the right term to any idea or policy. That is one reason young people are more likely to be liberal -- they have not had the time or inclination to think issues through, but they know they oppose racism, imperialism and bigotry, and that they are for peace, tolerance and the environment.

Third, they make the liberal feel good about himself -- by opposing conservative ideas and policies, he is automatically opposing racism, bigotry, imperialism, etc." -- Dennis