httpv://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TMiqfusRWM4
“It’s funny because it’s true.” Homer
Here’s an exercise I suggest. Take a person, put a bag over their heads and send them walking into the street.
What results is a good way to describe modern liberalism: aimless.
Unfair you say? Perhaps. But there’s no denying the philosophical “civil war” waged within its ranks has left the door open for liberal impostors to come in and set their own self-serving agendas. Those who choose to bail out, like this nauseating couple, come to Canada. Lucky us.
The internal confusion in the liberal frat house has corroded our collective conception of what constitutes traditional liberal tenets; you know, stuff like liberty, free markets, rule of law and (once upon a time) individualism. How? One way is to trample individual liberty with politics of coercion; to be controlled by the ever expanding nanny-state and special interest groups who set the tone of how liberalism evolves in the 21st century. The role of the individual is all but weeded out now.
Part of liberalism’s shtick is to challenge and question authority; to be a reflective conscience to the zeitgeist of our times. But engaging in empty rhetoric (“I’m moving to Iceland!”) and dubious conspiracy theories in the name of “liberalism” is, well, illiberal.
It has become an irritating habit for some Americans to threaten to leave their country because the people voted a certain way. Boo-hoo-hoo. To hang what ails American society on just the Republicans completely ignores the fact that liberals (Democrats) have been just as culpable in the process.
To be frank, if they’re that quick to make such proclamations (at least Robert Crumb made good on his threat and never came back) then maybe the United States doesn’t need people like them. Be part of the solution, not the problem.
Now that I think of it, why aren’t racist, KKK, ingrates from the Ozarks threatening to move to Canada now that Obama has been elected? Canada is already a basket case when it comes to defining its identity. Adding spoiled affluent Americans who throw hissy fits won’t help matters. In due time, our subsidized airwaves will be filled with Alex Jones/Martha Stewart hybrids spewing invectives about how Opus Dei and the CIA are conspiring to keep plaid and vanilla scented wax off store shelves.
Sips latte while shaking fist.
Meh. Someone has to step up to the plate in the liberal camp and reassert one of mankind’s (indeed, the bedrock of Western culture) most important political philosophical movements, no?
Certainly not members of ELITE.
