An amusing echo swirled around the narrow bowl of the NitWittery yesterday. Seems some people think the word “liberal” is a pejorative. In fact, we must never use the word “liberal” anymore – it’s gotten that radioactive!

Iyt’s offical. With Ann Coulter out on the couch circuit whoring her book, I’ve decided that “’iberal” is poison. No good can come of its usage in today’s public political discourse (such as it is). It is time to wrap the term in anchor chains and roll it overboard.

It is time, fellow liberals, to blow up the clown.

Provided, of course, that you realize that you are the clown.

The term was once meant to embody a mindset of open thinking, tolerance and overall optomism at the importance of good intentions and human kindness to change the world. Now, within the current sociopolitical universe, “liberal”has become everything unattractive about humans, Americans in particular.

Liberal has come to mean, among other things, entitled, impractical, socialist, morally relativistic, whiney, self-serving, selfish, exclusionary, insufferably holier-than-thou, cowardly and anti-”American.”

Liberals want everything for free. Liberals want to work less for more benefits, be provided free medical care for life and fiull every job with a less-qualified but more derserving-du-to-a-history-of-marginalization applicant. Liberals do not hold people and ideas to any solid standard of judgement. Liberalism is the soft underbelly of a democratic society that can only exist because of hard-shelled conservatives who are willing to take the kidney punches. Liberals hate God.

So let’s lose “liberal” and cast a wider net. Let’s call ourselves Progressive.

Yep. Sounds like you know some liberals. But this is a terrific Kerryworthy contortion. An admission/non-admission. Acknowledging that you have a problem without addressing what the true problem is.

This was hardly some sweet, eureka! moment, epiphany. As David Horowitz noted back in 1997:

Of all the misnomers of our political vocabulary, “progressive” is the most abusive and the most abused. “Progressive” is the accepted term for the political left today, just as it was 50 years ago, when it was used as a self-description by Communists and fellow-travelers who sought its protective cover even as they supported the most oppressive regimes in human history. In the later years of the Cold War, it was the term of choice for liberals as well, who thought that the Soviet system was “converging” with Reagan’s America, just before the Communist fall.

One of the more interesting characteristics of progressives is the way they seem to learn nothing from their experience, confounding the very idea of progress as a process of escaping from the myths of the past and acquiring knowledge. Today, self-styled “progressives” can be found supporting economic redistribution and state-sponsored racial discrimination, or memorializing the death anniversaries of totalitarian legends like Che Guevara, just as though the history of the last 50 years had never taken place.

In keep with today’s lavatorial laughtrack:

More than 50 toilet cleaners will be promoted to “restroom specialist” upon completing the three-day pilot course taught by Japanese experts in the latest toilet technology, The Straits Times reported.
[…]
“Cleaners have low morale and low skills,” the paper quoted Jack Sim, the World Toilet College’s founder, as saying. “We want to professionalize them and teach them to be proud of their jobs.”

Whether you’re a toilet cleaner or a restroom specialist. Be you a liberal or a progressive. You’re still doing a crap job no matter what you call it.

(Prisyadka! To the Head NiTwit)

Share This entry was posted on Thursday, June 22nd, 2006 at 11:09 am and is filed under Commies, Tennessee. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.