tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post3477601446028363987..comments2024-03-25T19:48:24.624+11:00Comments on Oz Conservative: What forms of identity do right-liberals permit?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-71432226965497628482021-01-30T16:40:00.036+11:002021-01-30T16:40:00.036+11:00Liberalism like all other 'isms'are highly...Liberalism like all other 'isms'are highly suspect of controversy and manipulation.<br />The word itself is based on a concept which is forever dreamt of but never achieved in human history. Not in it's disarable form, anyway.<br />Right or left, liberalism is something philosophers might chew upon until they turn blue in the face but the fact is, the way I see it, that liberalism itself is on the left side of the political scale. Most liberals I know are rejects from the left or the right because they could not stomach the politics of their earlier comrades but they are not radical enough to join the opposing side.<br />They are the Dart Sidious's of politics.<br />A dangerous collection of individuals who cause much more damage than good dvindling between left and right, corrupting both sides especially the malleable less experienced young full of half cooked excitable ideas and dreams.<br />Liberals caused huge damage in the last century on par with Communism - more than the Nazis - with their appeasement politics.The 'liberal' thinkers and politicians<br />caused catastrophes before and after WWI in Russia and in Middle Europe and so, they did the same after WWII. <br />The catastrophic results of the Yalta conference's liberal decision caused even more death and suffering in the following forty four years.<br /><br />Liberalism and appeasement politics are taking us nearer to the next disaster as far as the present appeasement politics with Red China is manifest. In this situation capitalism and economic liberalism is to be responsible for a dim future. <br />If liberals are going to influence the democratic US president's political decisions the world might start marching into Thucydides's trap before we know it.John Stevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01755452881842867217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-28962040183922658342021-01-01T16:49:04.864+11:002021-01-01T16:49:04.864+11:00Thank you, fixed.Thank you, fixed.Mark Richardsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15961688379656119701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-32957727340393178692021-01-01T14:55:28.632+11:002021-01-01T14:55:28.632+11:00Hi Mark, your link to Lynch's article is broke...Hi Mark, your link to Lynch's article is broken.Hermeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15048343595688010664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-83230290605855221812020-12-29T09:29:05.456+11:002020-12-29T09:29:05.456+11:00Liberalism is a major problem upon any inspection....<em>Liberalism is a major problem upon any inspection. Sure it’s a variety of leftism </em><br /><br />Is it? I'd have said that liberalism is inherently right-wing. Any radical individualist ideology seems to me to be an ideology of the right. Leftism puts the emphasis on society rather than the individual. Liberalism has destroyed the political Left. You can't be a leftist and a radical individualist.dfordoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02306293859869179118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-25011829808836345862020-12-28T02:32:22.095+11:002020-12-28T02:32:22.095+11:00I would suggest that a universal morality isn'...I would suggest that a universal morality isn't the same as a universalist morality. There have been many moral systems that were not universalist.RobertBrandywinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11661602554300651862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-83951688057669932632020-12-26T14:52:25.161+11:002020-12-26T14:52:25.161+11:00The universalist inclination of the Left is merely...The universalist inclination of the Left is merely a parody of Christianity, in my opinion, and I’d hardly call that the problem. If there is objective truth then there is universal truth, and objective morality means universal morality.<br /><br />Liberalism is a major problem upon any inspection. Sure it’s a variety of leftism but it has always been the dominant strain and the one that has done (and is doing) the most damage. It’s the primary cancer of the West at the moment. That should be clear from the fact that, as Mark mentioned, both bad alternatives we are offered for rule are some variety of liberalism. Does anyone believe that TPTB fear a different variety of liberalism becoming predominant?Guest Ghastnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-72497432234008183852020-12-26T14:46:06.082+11:002020-12-26T14:46:06.082+11:00I find it interesting that Lynch supposes that gro...I find it interesting that Lynch supposes that groups formed around sex (of which I only know of voluntary associations) are “likely to breed resentment, foment animosity, and promote tribalism.” I think it’s clear Lynch has fully accepted that feminist narrative that men and women are competing classes unquestioned and unexamined.<br /><br />Would it trouble him to provide an example of a woman-only tribe?Guest Ghastnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-81885762541267406442020-12-26T12:29:12.748+11:002020-12-26T12:29:12.748+11:00Does he really think there is no animosity between...Does he really think there is no animosity between sport clubs? Anyway, I consider Liberalism to be the minor danger when compared to the Leftist's central theme -- a universalist morality, because that's a road that leads to poverty and all but complete self-annihilation.RobertBrandywinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11661602554300651862noreply@blogger.com