....from a Democrat.
1.Once upon a time there were intelligent, pro-American, politicians in the Democrat Party. Alas, that time has receded into the past. Since the Democrats made a pact with the Prince of Darkness, there is no longer room for folks like Daniel Patrick Moynihan, deceased NYS Democrat Senator.
2. Our birthday boy:
“Daniel Patrick Moynihan, (born March 16, 1927, Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.—died March 26, 2003, Washington, D.C.), American scholar and Democratic Party politician, U.S. senator from New York state from 1977 to 2001.
Moynihan grew up in poverty in New York City and, after service in the U.S. Navy in World War II, attended Tufts University (Medford, Massachusetts) on the GI Bill of Rights (B.A., 1948) and Tufts’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (M.A., 1949), later receiving a Ph.D. from Fletcher (1961). His first taste of politics came in 1953 as a Democratic campaign worker in New York City, and he held various public and party posts in New York state in the 1950s.
During the 1960s Moynihan was in Washington, D.C., and, while serving in the Department of Labor, cowrote The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, popularly called the Moynihan Report, which held that many of the educational problems of American blacks resulted from the instability of black urban families.” Daniel Patrick Moynihan | United States senator and sociologist
3. " The two liberalisms also diverged in their view of America.
Moynihan’s older liberalism identified deeply with America even as it acknowledged its failings. It respected facts and evidence.
... the new liberalism, the radicalism of the late sixties that captivated educated elites, was shot through with an irrational anti-Americanism. “Radical politics,” explained Michael Novak at the time, “is so much the province of the affluent . . . that it fairly reeks of class bias,” a bias against “middle America.”
4. Moynihan feared that “a society suffused with the alienation of its elites” would be “a society that courts—if not totalitarianism, at least statism.”
He saw “totalitarian seeds in the new politics of who thinks what, and who feels how.” Moynihan understood that anti-Americanism was a useful lever for liberal elites who insisted that their inclinations be propitiated lest they undermine American society from within. But after being scorched by critics of the Moynihan Report and his Nixon-era comments about the need for “benign neglect” when it came to racial policy, Senator Moynihan confined his criticism of liberalism to occasional forays, such as his memorable 1993 essay “Defining Deviancy Down,” prompted by the frightening failures of the Dinkins mayoralty in New York."
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5. Moynihan believed that blacks could accomplish everything that other groups did.
The 'new' Liberals find blacks as a race inferior and apart.....they must be fed, laws made looser for them than others, and words must be banned because the fragile blank folk would fall apart if a word offends them.
His view of equality of the races was the basis for his 'benign neglect' doctrine.......so, of course, he was called a racist.
But Moynihan pointed out who the real racists are.
1.Once upon a time there were intelligent, pro-American, politicians in the Democrat Party. Alas, that time has receded into the past. Since the Democrats made a pact with the Prince of Darkness, there is no longer room for folks like Daniel Patrick Moynihan, deceased NYS Democrat Senator.
2. Our birthday boy:
“Daniel Patrick Moynihan, (born March 16, 1927, Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.—died March 26, 2003, Washington, D.C.), American scholar and Democratic Party politician, U.S. senator from New York state from 1977 to 2001.
During the 1960s Moynihan was in Washington, D.C., and, while serving in the Department of Labor, cowrote The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, popularly called the Moynihan Report, which held that many of the educational problems of American blacks resulted from the instability of black urban families.” Daniel Patrick Moynihan | United States senator and sociologist
3. " The two liberalisms also diverged in their view of America.
Moynihan’s older liberalism identified deeply with America even as it acknowledged its failings. It respected facts and evidence.
... the new liberalism, the radicalism of the late sixties that captivated educated elites, was shot through with an irrational anti-Americanism. “Radical politics,” explained Michael Novak at the time, “is so much the province of the affluent . . . that it fairly reeks of class bias,” a bias against “middle America.”
4. Moynihan feared that “a society suffused with the alienation of its elites” would be “a society that courts—if not totalitarianism, at least statism.”
He saw “totalitarian seeds in the new politics of who thinks what, and who feels how.” Moynihan understood that anti-Americanism was a useful lever for liberal elites who insisted that their inclinations be propitiated lest they undermine American society from within. But after being scorched by critics of the Moynihan Report and his Nixon-era comments about the need for “benign neglect” when it came to racial policy, Senator Moynihan confined his criticism of liberalism to occasional forays, such as his memorable 1993 essay “Defining Deviancy Down,” prompted by the frightening failures of the Dinkins mayoralty in New York."
Moynihan’s Mistake and the Left’s Shame
The late senator stood at the fault line between two very different versions of liberalism.
5. Moynihan believed that blacks could accomplish everything that other groups did.
The 'new' Liberals find blacks as a race inferior and apart.....they must be fed, laws made looser for them than others, and words must be banned because the fragile blank folk would fall apart if a word offends them.
His view of equality of the races was the basis for his 'benign neglect' doctrine.......so, of course, he was called a racist.
But Moynihan pointed out who the real racists are.
