Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century - Joshua L. Cherniss

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  fritzreg
  October 29th, 2021
  

  

  Great and timely essays. Many thanks!

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  Thamus
  October 29th, 2021
  

  “Liberalism” is such a vague term, it traditionally had different meanings in North America and continental Europe, (left wing and right wing respectively).

  Seems to me, Liberalism is getting the cult of victimhood treatment in this book. A majority of people across the globe are of the opinion that it’s precisely (the current bastardization of) Liberalism that is the cause of our dark times.

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  apollo60
  October 29th, 2021
  

  Thamus
  Amen.
  Liberalism is just a developmental phase towards a Dystopian society where the Collective is more important than Individual Freedoms. Think Mao, Hitler, Stalin, Chavez and Castro
  The term “progressive” is such a misnomer for liberalism. Regressive is the better description

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  caesar963
  October 29th, 2021
  

  

  Liberalism allows people with diametrically opposed positions to coexist peacefully & productively. Extreme ideologies of the left or right cannot achieve this. The distortion of the term in America is not the point.

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  tenbenson
  October 29th, 2021
  

  @apollo60

  I’ve taken a new approach to some of the regulars on here. Instead of insulting them, I’m trying to open a dialogue, as some of them seem fairly intelligent and I’d like to understand what drew them to their more extreme views.

  This doesn’t include you. You’re utterly wrong in this post, just like you’re utterly wrong all the time.

  As usual, you’ve completely failed to grasp the concept, or indeed the language of the topic. You rely, again and again, on the usual soundbites that you’ve stolen from various of the more oafish members of the Republican party and Youtubers.

  I don’t need to understand any more about you Apollo60, because you are so easy to read. There is nothing on the other side of the keyboard. Nothing. And you are no-one.

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  alnilam
  October 29th, 2021
  

  @apollo60

  > The term “progressive” is such a misnomer for liberalism

  On terminology, how exactly the American liberals suddenly became “conservatives”:

  “Nowhere is FDR’s genius for politics more evident than in his decision to call himself a liberal. FDR stole the label of the philosophy of liberty and bestowed it on the Progressives. Thanks to FDR, the illiberal party of the state — the party of government, the self-proclaimed political enemies of the classical liberalism of the founders and of limited government — got away with calling itself liberal.

  FDR’s theft left the proponents of the philosophy of liberty without a name. What should they call themselves?”

  Liberalism: It’s All in the Name by Robert Curry | Dec 20, 2017 https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/12/liberalism_its_all_in_the_name.html

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  goldvegas
  October 29th, 2021
  

  Liberalism in the UK is a down the middle type of party.

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  Roscoteapot
  October 29th, 2021
  

  Someone taps you on your right shoulder. You look back and then up at a suidae like semideus figure of a woman. The fair giant pig tailed lady donning an unhistorically accurate viking helmet declares “I am Helga” in what could be a Northern Irish accent?, before plunging your face betwixt her mountains bosoms. Exhilarated and confused by the woman beginning to chant the words hurdy-gurdy over and over again you feel a rush of joy you naught felt since you were a lad, but when finally attempt to pry your self free for a breath all you can do flap you arms until they go limp. You have died.

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  caesar963
  October 29th, 2021
  

  This is no place for your disturbingly detailed sexual fantasies, Rosco (he ejaculated).

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  caesar963
  October 29th, 2021
  

  …although she does sound like 1 of those “horny” domineering, Wagnerian maidens. With a death fetish (he spilled).

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  Roscoteapot
  October 29th, 2021
  

  tenbenson wants to be red pilled. Choose your own adventure is the method I find works best. It sends more people mad than Jesuit formation but will take marginally less time.

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  caesar963
  October 29th, 2021
  

  I’ve had quite enough of your Jesuit-bashing. Whenever I used to read those cyoa books as a young Roman, I would get offed remarkably quickly. It gives a child the impression of an excessively hazardous world.

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  illodiini
  October 29th, 2021
  

  I think caesar and Rosco are one and same person (or entity, if you prefer).

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  caesar963
  October 29th, 2021
  

  You mean like a multiple personality deal? That’s terrifying, although I’ve long suspected it. It means that I (or Rosco) am actually the Kwisatz Haddock. I can be in several places in Dublin at once.

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  Roscoteapot
  October 29th, 2021
  

  Like Plato certainly had the ability to make Socrates up, caesar could indeed spoof a less well read Bob Monkhouse version of himself, but no, alas, we are just from the same kuntry.

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  caesar963
  October 29th, 2021
  

  Why was Bob Monkhouse so f***ing shiny? Des O’Connor was shiny too. Parkinson, on the other hand, was not shiny - but he was certainly two-faced. Insincerity was Parkinson’s disease.

  Bob, recalling his early days - “They all laughed when I said I’d become a comedian. Well, they’re not laughing now.”

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  Roscoteapot
  October 29th, 2021
  

  Must be to do with the local hairdresser looking women, waving their arms over softly glistening sets of steak knives, around them all the time. *we both nod at each other and in prefect synchronization turn to stare at illodiini.

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  caesar963
  October 29th, 2021
  

  That last bit was a little too much like “Village of the Damned.” Were the hairdressers also glistening?

  Their shiny faces were p’haps like that Frump man from over in America - you know the one I mean, they’re always accusing each other on here of “being like Frump” or “not enough like Frump” - he seems to be some kind of cultural signifier for them. Well, Bob & Des were similar in facial terms, but they didn’t have those strange, unsettling white patches around the eyes.

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  Roscoteapot
  October 29th, 2021
  

  I nod at caesar and in perfect unichronization turn to stare at illodiini. caesar, transfixed and now eating popcorn, peers deep into my right ear to learn the fate of Jebtimus Prime as Magatron derides his lack of energon.

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  caesar963
  October 29th, 2021
  

  Everyone’s energon dissipates @ this time of yr, not just that of Jeb Prime. illodiini goes the whole yr sans energon, as his benighted country is always in dusky darkness. He only perks up a little when he goes on hols to a place that’s a little less Stygian. He loves unfamiliar words as well.

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  lisiva5995
  October 29th, 2021
  

  

  The cover art is literally any city after liberals have been in charge for a few years. (see San Francisco, Detroit, Chicago, New York).

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  illodiini
  October 30th, 2021
  

  Well, you’re either a same person or clowns, er, clones.

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  caesar963
  October 30th, 2021
  

  That’s racialist! It’s like saying that everyone in Finland is just the one frosty snowman! Come to think of it, you are the only Finn that anyone has ever encountered…

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  illodiini
  October 30th, 2021
  

  May your false teeth froze in a glass over night.

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  caesar963
  October 30th, 2021
  

  That must be one of your traditional curses.
  Here’s one of ours (quite genuine) - “That you may be badly positioned on a windy day.” A lot of our curses are extremely specific like that. We find ourselves endlessly fascinating.

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  Jiminy Cricket
  November 6th, 2021
  

  And just as New York topples her statues of Jefferson.

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  WangLaoshi2020
  November 25th, 2021
  

  I don’t even need to google this author and I’m 99% sure he works for one of those so called liberal think tanks (yawning)

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  NantanLupan
  July 14th, 2023
  

  

  Thank you!!!

  Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century - Joshua L. Cherniss

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