Embracing Life's Losers

[Ted S]

Years ago Michael Medved wrote a column explaining liberal orthodoxy that made quite an impact on me because he got it right:



The developments in the middle east this week reminded of this passage:

In fact, favored victim groups can lose their sacred claims on the liberal imagination as evidenced by shifting perspectives on the left concerning the State of Israel. In the wake of the devastation of the Holocaust, and with the Jews fighting for their lives against massive Arab armies in 1949 and '67, liberals naturally gave strong, nearly unanimous support to the Israeli underdogs. After the decisive victory in 1967, however, Israel assumed the role of regional power and began losing leftist support just as more and more conservatives came to appreciate America's redoubtable and reliable ally. Today, the Jewish state counts as far too successful, economically productive and militarily formidable to win much liberal sympathy, while the Palestinians remain so pathetically divided, dysfunctional, impoverished and inept that lefties (even Jewish lefties) react to their radical rhetoric with either applause or apologetics


The entire column is worth your time.

http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelmedved/2007/03/21/the_essence_of_liberalism_embracing_lifes_losers/page/full/

[wbcoleman]

So liberalism is a celebration of failure?

[clistensprechen]

Heh. Cons usually don't give a coherent explanation of conservativism, let alone liberalism, a foreign concept to them.

[wbcoleman]

Heh. Cons usually don't give a coherent explanation of conservativism, let alone liberalism, a foreign concept to them.

I'll admit, it is a foreign concept.  How well-meaning people can so passionately embrace such a destructive ideology is a real mystery.