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About liberalism’s past, Alan Wolfe has a great deal to say. About the evils and deficiencies of conservatism too. But he does not get around to addressing his stated topic — liberalism’s future — until about half-way down the second-to-last page of his book. Here is what he has to say then: “The challenge facing liberalism in the future, then, is not to beat out its rivals; . . . it has already done that. Its biggest challenge is to get liberals to once again believe in liberalism.” . . .
JJWFromME // Feb 9, 2009 at 10:17 am
Well, for one, we believe in cleaning up messes left by you conservatives,
. The Onion. Still funny: http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/black_man_given_nations
Bulldoglover100 // Feb 9, 2009 at 11:26 am
Unless the liberals are hiding and avoiding the poll calls, this country appears to be a centralist nation at this point in time.
Right now though, according to Gallup, the GOP rates an unfavorability rate of 58%. We must start doing something other than wasting time obstructing and listen to the people.
Bill Harrison // Feb 9, 2009 at 8:27 pm
From a purely political standpoint the smart play for conservatives now is to do the best they can in the House-Senate conference (which will amount to nothing) and then let the Democrats (and Collins, Snowe and Specter) own it because if what I expect to happen turns out (a sluggish L___I shaped recovery) the results will reflected at the ballot box in ‘10.