The problem is that the liberals will never accept Damon Lineker's plea to end the culture war and try their best to be 'value pluralist'.
They have internalised the shameful surrender of 'conservatives' to each new 'civil rights issue', and think there isn't one cultural issue they won't be able to manufacture consent on and demoralise all opponents.
That smugness won't end until they are proven wrong. We need to forcefully reject every liberal gain from the 1960s onwards.
Once the critical theorists, intersectionalists, and 'civil rights liberals' are completely crushed and excluded from political life, then maybe we can give Barry Goldwater 'free association'-type liberals a hearing.
But the refusal of the Democrats to moderate one inch on social issues (or on the few times it is brought up, these 'moderates' make sure to emphasise this moderation is simply 'a trick' before they get into power) suggests that all self-respecting White Christian men need to do everything in their power to eradicate the Democratic Party in it's current form.
As a Common Good thinker, I find such rhetoric unhelpful and self-defeating. It employs liberal tropes that lump different position into a category that your own position generates but distorts the differences. Good dialogue requires the ability to understand others in their own terms. As the descendent of the French Revolution, it is hard to take liberalism’s critique of authoritarian positions seriously. It was Rousseau that argued that sometimes you have to force people to be free.
I think it is liberals who reject democracy — which is a Greek synonym for populism (Latin). Liberalism is failing because it has rejected the obvious need for the corrosive transactional society of individuals to be contained by some kind of ‘we’ —- some combination of nationalist and communitarian family . Liberals - left and right, used to understand this. After 1989 you all went mad. We are now in a post liberal world. Duck it up. All you have to decide is whether it is civic national or ethno national, pagan or Christian.
The problem is that the liberals will never accept Damon Lineker's plea to end the culture war and try their best to be 'value pluralist'.
They have internalised the shameful surrender of 'conservatives' to each new 'civil rights issue', and think there isn't one cultural issue they won't be able to manufacture consent on and demoralise all opponents.
That smugness won't end until they are proven wrong. We need to forcefully reject every liberal gain from the 1960s onwards.
Once the critical theorists, intersectionalists, and 'civil rights liberals' are completely crushed and excluded from political life, then maybe we can give Barry Goldwater 'free association'-type liberals a hearing.
But the refusal of the Democrats to moderate one inch on social issues (or on the few times it is brought up, these 'moderates' make sure to emphasise this moderation is simply 'a trick' before they get into power) suggests that all self-respecting White Christian men need to do everything in their power to eradicate the Democratic Party in it's current form.
As a Common Good thinker, I find such rhetoric unhelpful and self-defeating. It employs liberal tropes that lump different position into a category that your own position generates but distorts the differences. Good dialogue requires the ability to understand others in their own terms. As the descendent of the French Revolution, it is hard to take liberalism’s critique of authoritarian positions seriously. It was Rousseau that argued that sometimes you have to force people to be free.
I think it is liberals who reject democracy — which is a Greek synonym for populism (Latin). Liberalism is failing because it has rejected the obvious need for the corrosive transactional society of individuals to be contained by some kind of ‘we’ —- some combination of nationalist and communitarian family . Liberals - left and right, used to understand this. After 1989 you all went mad. We are now in a post liberal world. Duck it up. All you have to decide is whether it is civic national or ethno national, pagan or Christian.