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Camelot Interupted

Posted by gmony714 on Thursday, August 09, 2007 9:32:53 AM

Just recently Hillary Clinton said “i am not a liberal i am a progressive. Well she is right. The original liberal is nothing like the new so called “Liberal”. A recent editorial by Rich Lowry reviewing the book “Camelot and the Cultural Revolution,” written by Jim Piereson states”The real John F. Kennedy wasn’t the paladin of liberal purity of myth.
He was friends with Joseph McCarthy. In his 1952 campaign for Senate
and his 1960 presidential campaign, he got to the right of his
Republican opponents on key issues. “Kennedy did not want ajfk.jpgnyone to tag
him as a liberal, which he regarded as the kiss of death in electoral
politics,” Piereson writes. As president, he was vigorously
anti-communist, a tax-cutter and a cautious supporter of civil rights.

the assassination curdled into an indictment of American society: “Kennedy Victim of Violent Streak He Sought to Curb in Nation,” read a New York Times headline. Until this point, 20th-century liberalism had tended to see history as a steady march of progress. Now, the march had been interrupted by the country’s own pathologies. “Kennedy was mourned in a spirit of frustrated possibility and dashed hopes,” Piereson argues, and that sense of loss came to define the new liberalism.American history no longer appeared to be a benign process, but a twisted story of rapine and oppression. “With such a bill of indictment,” Piereson writes, “the new liberals now held that Americans had no good reason to feel pride in their country’s past or optimism about its future.”

Their agenda took on a punitive edge, focused on compensating victim groups and expiating the country’s guilt.

The left developed ambivalence about national power, in which the old liberal reformers had placed such faith. In the paranoid theories that sprang up in the wake of Kennedy’s assassination - many of them to avoid the simple, uncongenial fact that a lone communist had killed the president - the seat of American government had been the locus of a secret plot to kill JFK. The conspiracy theories and anti-Americanism that had so appalled liberals about the far right in the 1950s had now gravitated to the left.

Bizarrely, after a liberal hero was slain by a Marxist, communist icons and ideas became more fashionable on the left than ever before.

Source: nypost.com

It is a twisted evolution, which is why you keep hearing Hillary Clinton say she was a Goldwater girl. Liberalism as it was known back then was abandoned. Politicians run from the word liberal not only because of the stigma of the word, but because they really are progressives. Progressivism historically advocates the advancement of workers’ rights and social justice. The progressives were early proponents of anti-trust laws and the regulation of large corporations and monopolies, as well as government-funded environmentalism and the creation of National Parks and Wildlife Refuges. So make no mistake if Hillary becomes POTUS
be prepared for massive tax hikes, major regulation and expanded government. Wow Camelot seems so far away these days.

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