The American Right's favorite racist, Charles Murray, had a piece in the Wall Street Journal a few days ago pointing out the differences between the good Liberals and the evil Progressives. Since even most people on the Left are to the right of me, I suppose I fall in with the latter, i.e., among the evil ones.
In general, I don't really mind this kind of article. It's entertaining to watch C-Span panels where right wingers list all the things that people like me believe...except that I don't believe any of them. It's quite comical watching them create this monster that is me. Murray's piece is just more of the same in this regard. But what I do object to are statements like this toward the end of his article: "But liberalism as I want to use the term encompasses a set of views that
can be held by people who care as much about America's exceptional
heritage as I do."
Here's my question to Murray: Who the f**k do you think you are to question how much anyone cares about America? It looks like being an American Enterprise Institute "scholar" puts you on the same rhetorical plane as Sarah Palin.
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