Seems as if the New Republic is at least somewhat expressing a "classical" ( in the American sense ) liberal perspective, viz, New Deal heritage, pro-business, even though also pro-regulation. This was the kind of liberalism that I knew in Chicago, years ago, and it had little to do with today's dominant "liberalism." Very pragmatic and, in Chicago, down the middle in support of the machine. No place in the Democratic Party for any kind of social extremists, Marxists, or anything else that was not mainstream. Your votes, if you were dead, were all the better because you could be expected to be reliable. Just maybe, to judge from a few recent New Republic articles, the magazine is trying to provide a platform for this kind of liberalism, viz, most Democratic voters in states like Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, and so forth. Emphasis on "maybe." Billy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10/17/2011 2:14:05 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
On Oct 17, 2011, at 1:20 PM, [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) wrote: they may simply "not get" the nuances of American ways of speaking, and take sarcasm or irony literally and, in the process, completely misconstrue meaning. I think Ernie would agree about this, and maybe could add a few words to further illuminate the phenomenon. I totally disagree, and have no idea what you're insinuating. ;-) One of the core differences between liberals and radicals is that liberals are capitalists Huh? What definition of "liberalism" is this person using, the libertarian version? -- Ernie P. -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: _http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism_ (http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism) Radical Centrism website and blog: _http://RadicalCentrism.org_ (http://radicalcentrism.org/) -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
