No Leftist Haters May Read This!

[Political Junky]

You're trying to make liberalism something solid. It's not. What's we're talking about are points of view as individual as the people themselves.

If you don't understand what modern liberalis is I'd be happy to explain it to you.

No thanks.

 

[L.K.Eder]

You're trying to make liberalism something solid. It's not. What's we're talking about are points of view as individual as the people themselves.

If you don't understand what modern liberalis is I'd be happy to explain it to you.

No thanks.

why not, she surely has a "monography" full of copy paste of coulter and co to present.

 

[Sky Dancer]

2. Every one of us on the right has seen this hatred…[by]…mainstream elite liberal journalists. There is simply nothing analogous among elite conservative journalists.

In the best irony of the week, Dennis Prager is exactly analogous, from the right, to what he's describing on the left.

Hey, Carby...You forgot to thank me for explaining the meaning of the term 'equality,' thereby arranging it so you don't embarrass yourself again, you know, showing that ignorance....

Must have slipped your mind...

To review: the meaning of 'equality' in the way modern libs, like you, mean it, and, of course this is the way Eurothink see it, too, is different from the way the Founders, or modern conservatives, mean it.

So Mr. Prager was correct, and you, as usual...well, you know.

Don't ya' just love the smell of knowledge in the morning?


But, heck, I was only kiddin' about you forgetting to thank me: a conservative is never so tall as when she stoops to help a liberal.

You just can't stay away from those labels.

 

[PoliticalChic]

4. The right, with its beliefs in a strong military; in individuals, not the state;[/url]

Uh, anyone not see the comical contradiction in that statement?

The desire for a massive imperialist military, flung across the globe, is about as clear a belief in 'the state' as one can have.

Do I have to keep teaching you?

Let's go back and see the essential militarism of the Progressives. I know your reading disabilities, so I'll bold the good parts...

1 Militarism: For some thinkers in Germany and the US, such as Teddy Roosevelt and Oliver Wendell Holmes, war was truly a source of moral values. For many progressives war represented a way to enroll the masses in a regimented collective.

a. Progressives saw WWI as an opportunity to change America and enforce collectivization. “In 1917, as Woodrow Wilson prepared to take the United States into the European war, the leading collectivist intellectuals of the day, John Dewey and Herbert Croly of The New Republic, beat the drums for American participation. …Dewey wrote that the progressive opponents of war were blind to the “immense impetus to reorganization afforded by this war.” He hoped they would work “to form ... the conditions and objects of our entrance.” In other words, they should exploit the opportunities war bestowed for collectivizing America. Croly was pithier: “The American nation needs the tonic of a serious moral adventure.” War Is the Health of the State

b.“Once the war is on, the conviction spreads that individual thought is helpless, that the only way one can count is as a cog in the great wheel. There is no good holding back. We are told to dry our unnoticed and ineffective tears and plunge into the great work.” From a Randolph Bourne essay published in June 1917, “The War and the Intellectuals.”

c.Dewey reveled in the thought that the war might force Americans to “give up much of our economic freedom…we shall have to lay by our good natured individualism and march in step.” http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-op-goldberg20jan20,1,3087455.column

d. In the essay The Moral Equivalent of War by William James, James considered one of the classic problems of politics: how to sustain political unity and civic virtue in the absence of war or a credible threat. The standard solution for the problem of sustaining political unity and civic virtue has been either war or a credible external or internal threat, anticipating the use by political leaders of imagined internal or external threats to achieve and maintain their power and the political unity that would discourage opposition to them. The essay may be origin of the idea of organized national service, to the depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps, to the Peace Corps, VISTA, and AmeriCorps.
Jon Roland: Introduction to The Moral Equivalent of War

e. The use of the idea if not the reality of war may be seen currently in liberalism’s use of ‘the war on cancer,’ ‘the war on drugs,’ the War on Poverty,’ and the exhortation to fight any problem as ‘the moral equivalent of war.’

f. Herbert Croly believed that life should be like a ‘school,’ and as such frequently demands ‘severe coercive measures.’ James Bovard, “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen,” p.8 Like Roosevelt, Croly looked forward to wars as the vehicle of progress, and saw as the Spanish-American War’s greatest achievement that it gave birth to Progressivism.


Now, because you work has fallen off lately, let me give you a few hints as to how to answer this dispositive post:
1. Bring up neo-cons, and/or nation building in recent decades.
2. Try not to bring up JFK, LBJ, of the current situation in Afghanistan...


And you may be able to use parts of this:
"The progressive intellectuals of the first part of the twentieth century initially welcomed war as a source of social cohesion and as a way of overcoming what they saw as the pernicious individualism of American life. But going from one extreme to the other, these disillusioned Wilsonians converted to pacifism and cosmopolitanism in the interwar period. They heaped invective on anyone who was sensitive to the dangers presented by Adolf Hitler. They found enemies in “war” and “arms races” in the abstract, not specific regimes committed to the destruction of a liberal international order. Patriotism and national honor became suspect for many intellectuals long afterward."
An Independent Mind by Daniel J. Mahoney, City Journal 18 June 2010

 

[PoliticalChic]

The Left Hates Conservatives
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

1. "Perhaps the most telling of the recent revelations of the liberal/left Journolist, a list consisting of about 400 major liberal/left journalists, is the depth of their hatred of conservatives…as exemplified by the e-mail from an NPR reporter expressing her wish to personally see Rush Limbaugh die a painful death -- and the apparent absence of any objection from the other liberal journalists.

2. Every one of us on the right has seen this hatred…[by]…mainstream elite liberal journalists. There is simply nothing analogous among elite conservative journalists. Yes, nearly all conservatives believe that the left is leading America to ruin. But while there is plenty of conservative anger over this fact, there is little or nothing on the right to match the left's hatred of conservative individuals.

3. From Karl Marx to today, the Left has always hated people on the Right, not merely differed or been angry with them. Why?

a. First, the left thinks the right is evil. Examples are innumerable. For example, Howard Dean, the former head of the Democratic Party said, "In contradistinction to the Republicans ... (Democrats) don't believe kids ought to go to bed hungry at night." Or take Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., who, among many similar comments, said, "I want to say a few words about what it means to be a Democrat. It's very simple: We have a conscience."

b. Second, when you don't confront real evil, you hate those who do. Whether out of guilt over their own cowardice or fear that the one who confronted the bully would provoke the bully to lash out more, those who refuse to confront the bully often resent the one who does. During the 1980s, the left expressed far more hatred of Ronald Reagan than of Soviet Communist dictator Leonid Brezhnev. And, when Reagan labeled the Soviet Union an "evil empire," the liberal world was enraged ... at Reagan. Today, the left has similar contempt for those who take a hard line on Islamic terror. The liberal and leftist media routinely place quote marks around the words War on Terror…the Obama administration has actually forbidden use of the term "Islamic terror." The real enemies the Democratic administration is prepared to name are the Republican Party, tea parties, Fox News and talk radio.

c. Third, the left's utopian vision is prevented only by the right. From its inception, leftism has been a secular utopian religion….imagining a utopian future. There will be no poor, no war, no conflict, no inequality. That future is only a few more government programs away from reality. And who stands in the way of such perfection? Conservatives.

4. How could a utopian not hate a conservative? The right, with its beliefs in a strong military; in individuals, not the state; taking care of themselves, their families and their neighbors; and in punishing criminals, is the anti-Love, a figure as reviled on the left as the antichrist is to Christians. The right, with its beliefs in a strong military; in individuals, not the state; taking care of themselves, their families and their neighbors; and in punishing criminals, is the anti-Love, a figure as reviled on the left as the antichrist is to Christians.

a. This hatred will only increase if the left feels its programs to greatly increase the size of the government are in any way threatened in the forthcoming elections."
The Dennis Prager Show

Best example of 'projection' I've seen in a very long time.

It's getting harder and harder with each passing day to pick out the "best" projection, the "best" hypocritical issue, the "best" embellished news story. The left does lack one very serious talent that the right has always enjoyed, and that's the ability to engage a completely gullible audience.

Kinda' sounds like you have a losing hand.

 

[bodecea]

The Left Hates Conservatives
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

1. "Perhaps the most telling of the recent revelations of the liberal/left Journolist, a list consisting of about 400 major liberal/left journalists, is the depth of their hatred of conservatives…as exemplified by the e-mail from an NPR reporter expressing her wish to personally see Rush Limbaugh die a painful death -- and the apparent absence of any objection from the other liberal journalists.

2. Every one of us on the right has seen this hatred…[by]…mainstream elite liberal journalists. There is simply nothing analogous among elite conservative journalists. Yes, nearly all conservatives believe that the left is leading America to ruin. But while there is plenty of conservative anger over this fact, there is little or nothing on the right to match the left's hatred of conservative individuals.

3. From Karl Marx to today, the Left has always hated people on the Right, not merely differed or been angry with them. Why?

a. First, the left thinks the right is evil. Examples are innumerable. For example, Howard Dean, the former head of the Democratic Party said, "In contradistinction to the Republicans ... (Democrats) don't believe kids ought to go to bed hungry at night." Or take Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., who, among many similar comments, said, "I want to say a few words about what it means to be a Democrat. It's very simple: We have a conscience."

b. Second, when you don't confront real evil, you hate those who do. Whether out of guilt over their own cowardice or fear that the one who confronted the bully would provoke the bully to lash out more, those who refuse to confront the bully often resent the one who does. During the 1980s, the left expressed far more hatred of Ronald Reagan than of Soviet Communist dictator Leonid Brezhnev. And, when Reagan labeled the Soviet Union an "evil empire," the liberal world was enraged ... at Reagan. Today, the left has similar contempt for those who take a hard line on Islamic terror. The liberal and leftist media routinely place quote marks around the words War on Terror…the Obama administration has actually forbidden use of the term "Islamic terror." The real enemies the Democratic administration is prepared to name are the Republican Party, tea parties, Fox News and talk radio.

c. Third, the left's utopian vision is prevented only by the right. From its inception, leftism has been a secular utopian religion….imagining a utopian future. There will be no poor, no war, no conflict, no inequality. That future is only a few more government programs away from reality. And who stands in the way of such perfection? Conservatives.

4. How could a utopian not hate a conservative? The right, with its beliefs in a strong military; in individuals, not the state; taking care of themselves, their families and their neighbors; and in punishing criminals, is the anti-Love, a figure as reviled on the left as the antichrist is to Christians. The right, with its beliefs in a strong military; in individuals, not the state; taking care of themselves, their families and their neighbors; and in punishing criminals, is the anti-Love, a figure as reviled on the left as the antichrist is to Christians.

a. This hatred will only increase if the left feels its programs to greatly increase the size of the government are in any way threatened in the forthcoming elections."
The Dennis Prager Show

I don't hate you far right conservatives...you're too entertaining for hate.

 

[PoliticalChic]

If it gives you comfort to demonize the other side of the aisle, so be it.

Sky-D, can you be serious?

After the Journolist scandal, and numerous examples of the left using ad hominems and demonization...

I no longer wish to convert the left, merely to expose same.

Somehow, by your lights, indicating the iniquity is the same as effectuating it.

Are you fucking kidding?

When have you EVER expressed disapproval over conservatives doing the same damn thing?

Un-American/Anti-American
Socialist
Marxist
Muslim
Terrorist
Anti-Christ

and that's JUST Obama

What an insipid post...

no quotes, no links....

The message board equivalent of arts and crafts.

No wonder you major effort is in neg reps....


And Maggie finds this a useful post?

What the heck happened to your standards?

Clearly, your dislike has colored your judgement.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Jesus Jumping ballsac, are you seriously so unaware of self that you don't know how smug of a bitch you come off as, like........you kno.......basically like your "op" says " the left" does?

You mean....(sob)...you..you...don't like me??????

"...are you seriously so unaware ..." that your post makes it pretty obvious that I'm beating the heck out of your side?

As usual, you posts are mildly amusing but utterly inconsequential..

 

[G.T.]

Jesus Jumping ballsac, are you seriously so unaware of self that you don't know how smug of a bitch you come off as, like........you kno.......basically like your "op" says " the left" does?

You mean....(sob)...you..you...don't like me??????

"...are you seriously so unaware ..." that your post makes it pretty obvious that I'm beating the heck out of your side?

As usual, you posts are mildly amusing but utterly inconsequential..

Your quality of life is made quite apparent by how you gloat about imaginary internet wins, pretending you're "beating" someone, etc...

-Too bad, so sad, yo' Dad.

 

[PoliticalChic]

In the best irony of the week, Dennis Prager is exactly analogous, from the right, to what he's describing on the left.

Hey, Carby...You forgot to thank me for explaining the meaning of the term 'equality,' thereby arranging it so you don't embarrass yourself again, you know, showing that ignorance....

Must have slipped your mind...

To review: the meaning of 'equality' in the way modern libs, like you, mean it, and, of course this is the way Eurothink see it, too, is different from the way the Founders, or modern conservatives, mean it.

So Mr. Prager was correct, and you, as usual...well, you know.

Don't ya' just love the smell of knowledge in the morning?


But, heck, I was only kiddin' about you forgetting to thank me: a conservative is never so tall as when she stoops to help a liberal.

You just can't stay away from those labels.

Wait...did you think I was going to just because you have revealed that you don't understand the parameters of the dialogue?


It behooves you to pick up a couple of books on the concepts, and better prepare yourself for a rousing debate.

Note how unprepared most on your side are, and what kinds of posts they must resort to?

(sorry to end a sentence with a preposition)

 

[L.K.Eder]

Hey, Carby...You forgot to thank me for explaining the meaning of the term 'equality,' thereby arranging it so you don't embarrass yourself again, you know, showing that ignorance....

Must have slipped your mind...

To review: the meaning of 'equality' in the way modern libs, like you, mean it, and, of course this is the way Eurothink see it, too, is different from the way the Founders, or modern conservatives, mean it.

So Mr. Prager was correct, and you, as usual...well, you know.

Don't ya' just love the smell of knowledge in the morning?


But, heck, I was only kiddin' about you forgetting to thank me: a conservative is never so tall as when she stoops to help a liberal.

You just can't stay away from those labels.

Wait...did you think I was going to just because you have revealed that you don't understand the parameters of the dialogue?


It behooves you to pick up a couple of books on the concepts, and better prepare yourself for a rousing debate.

Note how unprepared most on your side are, and what kinds of posts they must resort to?

(sorry to end a sentence with a preposition)

are you gainfully employed, politicalhack?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Jesus Jumping ballsac, are you seriously so unaware of self that you don't know how smug of a bitch you come off as, like........you kno.......basically like your "op" says " the left" does?

You mean....(sob)...you..you...don't like me??????

"...are you seriously so unaware ..." that your post makes it pretty obvious that I'm beating the heck out of your side?

As usual, you posts are mildly amusing but utterly inconsequential..

Your quality of life is made quite apparent by how you gloat about imaginary internet wins, pretending you're "beating" someone, etc...

-Too bad, so sad, yo' Dad.

OMG...what a weak fall-back position.

But, heck, you'd make a damn fine organ donor.

 

[PoliticalChic]

You just can't stay away from those labels.

Wait...did you think I was going to just because you have revealed that you don't understand the parameters of the dialogue?


It behooves you to pick up a couple of books on the concepts, and better prepare yourself for a rousing debate.

Note how unprepared most on your side are, and what kinds of posts they must resort to?

(sorry to end a sentence with a preposition)

are you gainfully employed, politicalhack?

Didn't you just say you'd never read this thread, or something?

What happened to your resolve?

You're kinda like the sweet young thing being chased by the horrible monster...and she can't help but look back at it gaining on her.


I'm gaining on you...Boooo!

 

[JakeStarkey]

PC, that is your disconnect: you are not gaining on anyone but dropping way way back in the pack.

 

[G.T.]

You mean....(sob)...you..you...don't like me??????

"...are you seriously so unaware ..." that your post makes it pretty obvious that I'm beating the heck out of your side?

As usual, you posts are mildly amusing but utterly inconsequential..

Your quality of life is made quite apparent by how you gloat about imaginary internet wins, pretending you're "beating" someone, etc...

-Too bad, so sad, yo' Dad.

OMG...what a weak fall-back position.

But, heck, you'd make a damn fine organ donor.

You pat yourself on the back more than a nutsac clapping an ass during doggy-style. Really. And you have the nerve to declare "the left" as elitist?

You are more pompass than a cheerleader with her poms stuck in her butt. Your life's sad, girl. I barely can respond because I feel you need these lil' faux internet victories *shrug* sorry

 

[PoliticalChic]

The Left Hates Conservatives
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

1. "Perhaps the most telling of the recent revelations of the liberal/left Journolist, a list consisting of about 400 major liberal/left journalists, is the depth of their hatred of conservatives…as exemplified by the e-mail from an NPR reporter expressing her wish to personally see Rush Limbaugh die a painful death -- and the apparent absence of any objection from the other liberal journalists.

2. Every one of us on the right has seen this hatred…[by]…mainstream elite liberal journalists. There is simply nothing analogous among elite conservative journalists. Yes, nearly all conservatives believe that the left is leading America to ruin. But while there is plenty of conservative anger over this fact, there is little or nothing on the right to match the left's hatred of conservative individuals.

3. From Karl Marx to today, the Left has always hated people on the Right, not merely differed or been angry with them. Why?

a. First, the left thinks the right is evil. Examples are innumerable. For example, Howard Dean, the former head of the Democratic Party said, "In contradistinction to the Republicans ... (Democrats) don't believe kids ought to go to bed hungry at night." Or take Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., who, among many similar comments, said, "I want to say a few words about what it means to be a Democrat. It's very simple: We have a conscience."

b. Second, when you don't confront real evil, you hate those who do. Whether out of guilt over their own cowardice or fear that the one who confronted the bully would provoke the bully to lash out more, those who refuse to confront the bully often resent the one who does. During the 1980s, the left expressed far more hatred of Ronald Reagan than of Soviet Communist dictator Leonid Brezhnev. And, when Reagan labeled the Soviet Union an "evil empire," the liberal world was enraged ... at Reagan. Today, the left has similar contempt for those who take a hard line on Islamic terror. The liberal and leftist media routinely place quote marks around the words War on Terror…the Obama administration has actually forbidden use of the term "Islamic terror." The real enemies the Democratic administration is prepared to name are the Republican Party, tea parties, Fox News and talk radio.

c. Third, the left's utopian vision is prevented only by the right. From its inception, leftism has been a secular utopian religion….imagining a utopian future. There will be no poor, no war, no conflict, no inequality. That future is only a few more government programs away from reality. And who stands in the way of such perfection? Conservatives.

4. How could a utopian not hate a conservative? The right, with its beliefs in a strong military; in individuals, not the state; taking care of themselves, their families and their neighbors; and in punishing criminals, is the anti-Love, a figure as reviled on the left as the antichrist is to Christians. The right, with its beliefs in a strong military; in individuals, not the state; taking care of themselves, their families and their neighbors; and in punishing criminals, is the anti-Love, a figure as reviled on the left as the antichrist is to Christians.

a. This hatred will only increase if the left feels its programs to greatly increase the size of the government are in any way threatened in the forthcoming elections."
The Dennis Prager Show

I don't hate you far right conservatives...you're too entertaining for hate.

See, how I bring joy to folks' lives?

But not really much of a rejoinder to the OP..

But ...



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[L.K.Eder]

Wait...did you think I was going to just because you have revealed that you don't understand the parameters of the dialogue?


It behooves you to pick up a couple of books on the concepts, and better prepare yourself for a rousing debate.

Note how unprepared most on your side are, and what kinds of posts they must resort to?

(sorry to end a sentence with a preposition)

are you gainfully employed, politicalhack?

Didn't you just say you'd never read this thread, or something?

What happened to your resolve?

You're kinda like the sweet young thing being chased by the horrible monster...and she can't help but look back at it gaining on her.


I'm gaining on you...Boooo!

i don't read your vomit. as requested. but i can ask a question. you are wise to deny me an answer. to me, you will be a desperate housewife or spinster without joy, imagination, and possibilities to find affirmation and validation in real life anyway.

 

[JakeStarkey]

"A spinster without joy" is an adequate description of PC's persona here.

 

[Father Time]

Sky-D, can you be serious?

After the Journolist scandal, and numerous examples of the left using ad hominems and demonization...

I no longer wish to convert the left, merely to expose same.

Somehow, by your lights, indicating the iniquity is the same as effectuating it.

Are you fucking kidding?

When have you EVER expressed disapproval over conservatives doing the same damn thing?

Un-American/Anti-American
Socialist
Marxist
Muslim
Terrorist
Anti-Christ

and that's JUST Obama

What an insipid post...

no quotes, no links....

The message board equivalent of arts and crafts.

No wonder you major effort is in neg reps....


And Maggie finds this a useful post?

What the heck happened to your standards?

Clearly, your dislike has colored your judgement.

Your bitching about neg reps aside are you seriously going to pretend people didn't call him that during the campaign trail? Hell they call him those things now even on this very board.

And excuse me if I don't feel like digging up rants that are maybe a year old but here's the anti-christ one

Google

Amazing what 10 seconds on google can find. I'm not going to spend more time though just because you want to pretend you weren't paying attention.

And what ever happened to your usual copypasta "liberals have no values"? That's certainly not ad hominem smear at all. </sarcasm>

 

[NYcarbineer]

4. The right, with its beliefs in a strong military; in individuals, not the state;[/url]

Uh, anyone not see the comical contradiction in that statement?

The desire for a massive imperialist military, flung across the globe, is about as clear a belief in 'the state' as one can have.

Do I have to keep teaching you?

Let's go back and see the essential militarism of the Progressives. I know your reading disabilities, so I'll bold the good parts...

1 Militarism: For some thinkers in Germany and the US, such as Teddy Roosevelt and Oliver Wendell Holmes, war was truly a source of moral values. For many progressives war represented a way to enroll the masses in a regimented collective.

a. Progressives saw WWI as an opportunity to change America and enforce collectivization. “In 1917, as Woodrow Wilson prepared to take the United States into the European war, the leading collectivist intellectuals of the day, John Dewey and Herbert Croly of The New Republic, beat the drums for American participation. …Dewey wrote that the progressive opponents of war were blind to the “immense impetus to reorganization afforded by this war.” He hoped they would work “to form ... the conditions and objects of our entrance.” In other words, they should exploit the opportunities war bestowed for collectivizing America. Croly was pithier: “The American nation needs the tonic of a serious moral adventure.” War Is the Health of the State

b.“Once the war is on, the conviction spreads that individual thought is helpless, that the only way one can count is as a cog in the great wheel. There is no good holding back. We are told to dry our unnoticed and ineffective tears and plunge into the great work.” From a Randolph Bourne essay published in June 1917, “The War and the Intellectuals.”

c.Dewey reveled in the thought that the war might force Americans to “give up much of our economic freedom…we shall have to lay by our good natured individualism and march in step.” http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-op-goldberg20jan20,1,3087455.column

d. In the essay The Moral Equivalent of War by William James, James considered one of the classic problems of politics: how to sustain political unity and civic virtue in the absence of war or a credible threat. The standard solution for the problem of sustaining political unity and civic virtue has been either war or a credible external or internal threat, anticipating the use by political leaders of imagined internal or external threats to achieve and maintain their power and the political unity that would discourage opposition to them. The essay may be origin of the idea of organized national service, to the depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps, to the Peace Corps, VISTA, and AmeriCorps.
Jon Roland: Introduction to The Moral Equivalent of War

e. The use of the idea if not the reality of war may be seen currently in liberalism’s use of ‘the war on cancer,’ ‘the war on drugs,’ the War on Poverty,’ and the exhortation to fight any problem as ‘the moral equivalent of war.’

f. Herbert Croly believed that life should be like a ‘school,’ and as such frequently demands ‘severe coercive measures.’ James Bovard, “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen,” p.8 Like Roosevelt, Croly looked forward to wars as the vehicle of progress, and saw as the Spanish-American War’s greatest achievement that it gave birth to Progressivism.


Now, because you work has fallen off lately, let me give you a few hints as to how to answer this dispositive post:
1. Bring up neo-cons, and/or nation building in recent decades.
2. Try not to bring up JFK, LBJ, of the current situation in Afghanistan...


And you may be able to use parts of this:
"The progressive intellectuals of the first part of the twentieth century initially welcomed war as a source of social cohesion and as a way of overcoming what they saw as the pernicious individualism of American life. But going from one extreme to the other, these disillusioned Wilsonians converted to pacifism and cosmopolitanism in the interwar period. They heaped invective on anyone who was sensitive to the dangers presented by Adolf Hitler. They found enemies in “war” and “arms races” in the abstract, not specific regimes committed to the destruction of a liberal international order. Patriotism and national honor became suspect for many intellectuals long afterward."
An Independent Mind by Daniel J. Mahoney, City Journal 18 June 2010

It was the left that drove LBJ out of office over the Vietnam war, not the right.