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What makes a liberal?
by Dennis Prager
Why do people hold liberal-left positions? (Liberal and left were once very different, but not anymore.)
This question has plagued me because I have long believed that most people, liberal or conservative, mean well. Very few people wake up in the morning planning to harm society. Yet, many liberal positions – I emphasize liberal positions rather than liberals because most people who call themselves liberal do not hold most contemporary liberal positions – have been wreaking havoc on America and the world.
What makes a liberal? Part II
by Dennis Prager
In the first part of “What Makes a Liberal?” among the points I made – but could not develop in the space of a column – was that “liberal” and “left” have become indistinguishable. This is new. And it is a tragedy for the nation and the world.
When I grew up (I became a teenager in the early 1960s), “liberal” was not only not the same as “left,” it was often anti-left. My boyhood idol (whose presidency I still admire) was President John F. Kennedy. His liberalism is my liberalism to this day.
Kennedy advocated four major positions – lower taxes, expanded military, the use of American power to fight evil, and the centrality of God to American life and to morality. Liberals and their political party, the Democrats, have since rejected each of these positions, all of which are now considered conservative.
townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/dp20030819.shtml
by Dennis Prager
Why do people hold liberal-left positions? (Liberal and left were once very different, but not anymore.)
This question has plagued me because I have long believed that most people, liberal or conservative, mean well. Very few people wake up in the morning planning to harm society. Yet, many liberal positions – I emphasize liberal positions rather than liberals because most people who call themselves liberal do not hold most contemporary liberal positions – have been wreaking havoc on America and the world.
townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/dp20030812.shtml
What makes a liberal? Part IIby Dennis Prager
In the first part of “What Makes a Liberal?” among the points I made – but could not develop in the space of a column – was that “liberal” and “left” have become indistinguishable. This is new. And it is a tragedy for the nation and the world.
When I grew up (I became a teenager in the early 1960s), “liberal” was not only not the same as “left,” it was often anti-left. My boyhood idol (whose presidency I still admire) was President John F. Kennedy. His liberalism is my liberalism to this day.
Kennedy advocated four major positions – lower taxes, expanded military, the use of American power to fight evil, and the centrality of God to American life and to morality. Liberals and their political party, the Democrats, have since rejected each of these positions, all of which are now considered conservative.
townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/dp20030819.shtml
