When Is A Racist Not A Racist?

[PoliticalChic]

As the saying goes, the definition of a 'racist' is a conservative winning the argument.
Of course, a Liberal Democrat could be a 'racist' is he sounds conservative....


And so it was with the smartest Democrat on record....Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
Moynihan....my kind of Liberal, my kind of Democrat.
The thinking kind.

Here, Moynihans' story, and the truth about what has happened to Liberals and Liberalism.
Within the story of Moynihan is the tale of the degradation of Liberalism into the treachery it is today.



1.Daniel Patrick Moynihan... "...the four-term senator from New York who died in 2003, was that rare soul who was both a political and intellectual giant.

[...in 1968, Moynihan joined Nixon's White House Staff as Counselor to the President for Urban Affairs. He was very influential at that time, and was one of the few people in Nixon's inner circle who had done academic research related to social policies." Daniel Patrick Moynihan - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia]

2. What brought Nixon and Moynihan together was a tectonic shift of the political plates. Nixon won the presidency in 1968 thanks to the backlash against the riots that had ripped through America’s cities. What made Moynihan a Democrat of extraordinary insight, willing to serve a Republican president, were his reactions to those riots—
.....and to the excesses and wrong turns of American liberalism.

3. Today, 50 years after its issuance, some liberals “bravely” acknowledge that 1965’s so-called Moynihan Report, in which the future senator warned about the dire future consequences of the collapse of the black family,...

4. .... Moynihan was branded as a racist by civil rights leaders, black activists, and run-of-the-mill liberals. “One began to sense,” Moynihan wrote, that “a price was to be paid even for such a mild dissent from conventional liberalism.”




5. [Moynihan] “emerged changed” from the experience. He came to feel “that American liberalism had created its own version of apolitique du pire(i.e., the worse the better) . . . in which evidence had been displaced by ideology.”

6. His fear that the empirically oriented liberalism of his youth was under assault from racial and cultural nihilists intensified after the 1967 riots that burned through Cleveland, Newark, and Detroit, where 43 died.

7. “The summer of 1967,” Moynihan wrote at the time, “came in the aftermath of one of the most extraordinary periods of liberal legislation, liberal electoral victories and the liberal dominance of the media . . . that we have ever experienced. ...accompanied by the greatest economic expansion in human history. And to top it all, some of the worst violence occurred in Detroit, a city with one of the most liberal and successful administrations in the nation; a city in which the social and economic position of the Negro was generally agreed to be far and away the best in the nation.” Moynihan s Mistake and the Left s Shame by Fred Siegel City Journal April 3 2015



So....even while Liberalism was in the ascendancy, "...extraordinary periods of liberal legislation, liberal electoral victories and the liberal dominance of the media . . . that we have ever experienced. ...accompanied by the greatest economic expansion in human history..."

....Liberalism was being taken over by the radicals and the far Left.

And we see their 'success' today.



Speaking the truth earns one the sobriquet 'racist.'

 

[Siete]

troll ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

When he/she is a minority or a liberal.

 

[Sunni Man]

As the saying goes, the definition of a 'racist' is a conservative winning the argument.
Of course, a Liberal Democrat could be a 'racist' is he sounds conservative....


And so it was with the smartest Democrat on record....Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
Moynihan....my kind of Liberal, my kind of Democrat.
The thinking kind.

Here, Moynihans' story, and the truth about what has happened to Liberals and Liberalism.
Within the story of Moynihan is the tale of the degradation of Liberalism into the treachery it is today.



1.Daniel Patrick Moynihan... "...the four-term senator from New York who died in 2003, was that rare soul who was both a political and intellectual giant.

[...in 1968, Moynihan joined Nixon's White House Staff as Counselor to the President for Urban Affairs. He was very influential at that time, and was one of the few people in Nixon's inner circle who had done academic research related to social policies." Daniel Patrick Moynihan - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia]

2. What brought Nixon and Moynihan together was a tectonic shift of the political plates. Nixon won the presidency in 1968 thanks to the backlash against the riots that had ripped through America’s cities. What made Moynihan a Democrat of extraordinary insight, willing to serve a Republican president, were his reactions to those riots—
.....and to the excesses and wrong turns of American liberalism.

3. Today, 50 years after its issuance, some liberals “bravely” acknowledge that 1965’s so-called Moynihan Report, in which the future senator warned about the dire future consequences of the collapse of the black family,...

4. .... Moynihan was branded as a racist by civil rights leaders, black activists, and run-of-the-mill liberals. “One began to sense,” Moynihan wrote, that “a price was to be paid even for such a mild dissent from conventional liberalism.”




5. [Moynihan] “emerged changed” from the experience. He came to feel “that American liberalism had created its own version of apolitique du pire(i.e., the worse the better) . . . in which evidence had been displaced by ideology.”

6. His fear that the empirically oriented liberalism of his youth was under assault from racial and cultural nihilists intensified after the 1967 riots that burned through Cleveland, Newark, and Detroit, where 43 died.

7. “The summer of 1967,” Moynihan wrote at the time, “came in the aftermath of one of the most extraordinary periods of liberal legislation, liberal electoral victories and the liberal dominance of the media . . . that we have ever experienced. ...accompanied by the greatest economic expansion in human history. And to top it all, some of the worst violence occurred in Detroit, a city with one of the most liberal and successful administrations in the nation; a city in which the social and economic position of the Negro was generally agreed to be far and away the best in the nation.” Moynihan s Mistake and the Left s Shame by Fred Siegel City Journal April 3 2015



So....even while Liberalism was in the ascendancy, "...extraordinary periods of liberal legislation, liberal electoral victories and the liberal dominance of the media . . . that we have ever experienced. ...accompanied by the greatest economic expansion in human history..."

....Liberalism was being taken over by the radicals and the far Left.

And we see their 'success' today.



Speaking the truth earns one the sobriquet 'racist.'

Another on target and informative thread PC .......

 

[Siete]

rac·ist
ˈrāsəst/
noun
plural noun: racists

1. 1.
   a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
   synonyms: racial bigot, racialist, xenophobe, chauvinist, supremacistMore
   "he was exposed as a racist"
   (racially) discriminatory, racialist, prejudiced, bigoted
   "a racist society"

adjective
plural noun: racists

1. 1.
   having or showing the belief that a particular race is superior to another.
   "we are investigating complaints about racist abuse at the club"

there's 4 races in the world ... you decide

 

[PoliticalChic]

Daniel Patrick Moynihan was a real Liberal....a real Democrat.....a real American....


His sort of Liberal Democrat was pro-America, and anti-communist.....

Of course, this is no longer the case.



8. "In the wake of the riots, a candid Moynihan... addressed the liberal stalwarts of Americans for Democratic Action, an organization created as an anti-Communist counterpoint to the philo-Soviet liberals of the 1940s.

“The violence abroad and the violence at home” was “especially embarrassing for American liberals,” Moynihan told his ADA listeners, “because it is largely they who have been in office and presided over the onset of the war in Vietnam and the violence in American cities . . . [which] must be judged our doing.”



9. ...the liberal media and establishment didn’t see it that way, shifting the blame on to the shoulders of Richard Nixon and the blue-collar voters who supported him. ....


Moynihan told his fellow ADA liberals that they needed to look, at least temporarily, to an alliance with conservatives to head off the breakdown."
Moynihan s Mistake and the Left s Shame by Fred Siegel City Journal April 3 2015



Instead.....Liberalism continued to spin out of control.

 

[Correll]

Daniel Patrick Moynihan was a real Liberal....a real Democrat.....a real American....


His sort of Liberal Democrat was pro-America, and anti-communist.....

Of course, this is no longer the case.



8. "In the wake of the riots, a candid Moynihan... addressed the liberal stalwarts of Americans for Democratic Action, an organization created as an anti-Communist counterpoint to the philo-Soviet liberals of the 1940s.

“The violence abroad and the violence at home” was “especially embarrassing for American liberals,” Moynihan told his ADA listeners, “because it is largely they who have been in office and presided over the onset of the war in Vietnam and the violence in American cities . . . [which] must be judged our doing.”



9. ...the liberal media and establishment didn’t see it that way, shifting the blame on to the shoulders of Richard Nixon and the blue-collar voters who supported him. ....


Moynihan told his fellow ADA liberals that they needed to look, at least temporarily, to an alliance with conservatives to head off the breakdown."
Moynihan s Mistake and the Left s Shame by Fred Siegel City Journal April 3 2015



Instead.....Liberalism continued to spin out of control.

Wow. THat's impressive.

 

[Correll]

rac·ist
ˈrāsəst/
noun
plural noun: racists

1. 1.
   a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
   synonyms: racial bigot, racialist, xenophobe, chauvinist, supremacistMore
   "he was exposed as a racist"
   (racially) discriminatory, racialist, prejudiced, bigoted
   "a racist society"

adjective
plural noun: racists

1. 1.
   having or showing the belief that a particular race is superior to another.
   "we are investigating complaints about racist abuse at the club"

there's 4 races in the world ... you decide

That is NOT the way modern liberals use the word.

Hell, I was just called a racist for mentioning the fact that the NBA is majority black.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Daniel Patrick Moynihan was a real Liberal....a real Democrat.....a real American....


His sort of Liberal Democrat was pro-America, and anti-communist.....

Of course, this is no longer the case.



8. "In the wake of the riots, a candid Moynihan... addressed the liberal stalwarts of Americans for Democratic Action, an organization created as an anti-Communist counterpoint to the philo-Soviet liberals of the 1940s.

“The violence abroad and the violence at home” was “especially embarrassing for American liberals,” Moynihan told his ADA listeners, “because it is largely they who have been in office and presided over the onset of the war in Vietnam and the violence in American cities . . . [which] must be judged our doing.”



9. ...the liberal media and establishment didn’t see it that way, shifting the blame on to the shoulders of Richard Nixon and the blue-collar voters who supported him. ....


Moynihan told his fellow ADA liberals that they needed to look, at least temporarily, to an alliance with conservatives to head off the breakdown."
Moynihan s Mistake and the Left s Shame by Fred Siegel City Journal April 3 2015



Instead.....Liberalism continued to spin out of control.

Wow. THat's impressive.

Thank you, Correll...and welcome to the board.


Sometimes we forget that there were folks who lived America, as we do, and worked for the same things as we do.

We look at the power hungry, totalitarians who are called Liberals/Progressives/Democrats today and forget that they are an aberration and bastardization of those names.

 

[Siete]

rac·ist
ˈrāsəst/
noun
plural noun: racists

1. 1.
   a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
   synonyms: racial bigot, racialist, xenophobe, chauvinist, supremacistMore
   "he was exposed as a racist"
   (racially) discriminatory, racialist, prejudiced, bigoted
   "a racist society"

adjective
plural noun: racists

1. 1.
   having or showing the belief that a particular race is superior to another.
   "we are investigating complaints about racist abuse at the club"

there's 4 races in the world ... you decide

That is NOT the way modern liberals use the word.

Hell, I was just called a racist for mentioning the fact that the NBA is majority black.

republican/democrat is not a race ... unless you're a braindead moron trolling for attention

 

[Sunni Man]

Hell, I was just called a racist for mentioning the fact that the NBA is majority black.

Liberals hate reality.

They say it makes them feel icky. .....

 

[NYcarbineer]

As the saying goes, the definition of a 'racist' is a conservative winning the argument.
Of course, a Liberal Democrat could be a 'racist' is he sounds conservative....


And so it was with the smartest Democrat on record....Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
Moynihan....my kind of Liberal, my kind of Democrat.
The thinking kind.

Here, Moynihans' story, and the truth about what has happened to Liberals and Liberalism.
Within the story of Moynihan is the tale of the degradation of Liberalism into the treachery it is today.



1.Daniel Patrick Moynihan... "...the four-term senator from New York who died in 2003, was that rare soul who was both a political and intellectual giant.

[...in 1968, Moynihan joined Nixon's White House Staff as Counselor to the President for Urban Affairs. He was very influential at that time, and was one of the few people in Nixon's inner circle who had done academic research related to social policies." Daniel Patrick Moynihan - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia]

2. What brought Nixon and Moynihan together was a tectonic shift of the political plates. Nixon won the presidency in 1968 thanks to the backlash against the riots that had ripped through America’s cities. What made Moynihan a Democrat of extraordinary insight, willing to serve a Republican president, were his reactions to those riots—
.....and to the excesses and wrong turns of American liberalism.

3. Today, 50 years after its issuance, some liberals “bravely” acknowledge that 1965’s so-called Moynihan Report, in which the future senator warned about the dire future consequences of the collapse of the black family,...

4. .... Moynihan was branded as a racist by civil rights leaders, black activists, and run-of-the-mill liberals. “One began to sense,” Moynihan wrote, that “a price was to be paid even for such a mild dissent from conventional liberalism.”




5. [Moynihan] “emerged changed” from the experience. He came to feel “that American liberalism had created its own version of apolitique du pire(i.e., the worse the better) . . . in which evidence had been displaced by ideology.”

6. His fear that the empirically oriented liberalism of his youth was under assault from racial and cultural nihilists intensified after the 1967 riots that burned through Cleveland, Newark, and Detroit, where 43 died.

7. “The summer of 1967,” Moynihan wrote at the time, “came in the aftermath of one of the most extraordinary periods of liberal legislation, liberal electoral victories and the liberal dominance of the media . . . that we have ever experienced. ...accompanied by the greatest economic expansion in human history. And to top it all, some of the worst violence occurred in Detroit, a city with one of the most liberal and successful administrations in the nation; a city in which the social and economic position of the Negro was generally agreed to be far and away the best in the nation.” Moynihan s Mistake and the Left s Shame by Fred Siegel City Journal April 3 2015



So....even while Liberalism was in the ascendancy, "...extraordinary periods of liberal legislation, liberal electoral victories and the liberal dominance of the media . . . that we have ever experienced. ...accompanied by the greatest economic expansion in human history..."

....Liberalism was being taken over by the radicals and the far Left.

And we see their 'success' today.



Speaking the truth earns one the sobriquet 'racist.'

The so-called 'far left' hasn't been in power at the national level since when?

You tell us. When is the last time we had a genuinely left-liberal government in power? That means a left-liberal President,
with a left-liberal Congress?

 

[Ame®icano]

That is NOT the way modern liberals use the word.

Hell, I was just called a racist for mentioning the fact that the NBA is majority black.

Majority of NBA players are Basketball-American. The rest can't jump.

 

[PoliticalChic]

As the saying goes, the definition of a 'racist' is a conservative winning the argument.
Of course, a Liberal Democrat could be a 'racist' is he sounds conservative....


And so it was with the smartest Democrat on record....Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
Moynihan....my kind of Liberal, my kind of Democrat.
The thinking kind.

Here, Moynihans' story, and the truth about what has happened to Liberals and Liberalism.
Within the story of Moynihan is the tale of the degradation of Liberalism into the treachery it is today.



1.Daniel Patrick Moynihan... "...the four-term senator from New York who died in 2003, was that rare soul who was both a political and intellectual giant.

[...in 1968, Moynihan joined Nixon's White House Staff as Counselor to the President for Urban Affairs. He was very influential at that time, and was one of the few people in Nixon's inner circle who had done academic research related to social policies." Daniel Patrick Moynihan - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia]

2. What brought Nixon and Moynihan together was a tectonic shift of the political plates. Nixon won the presidency in 1968 thanks to the backlash against the riots that had ripped through America’s cities. What made Moynihan a Democrat of extraordinary insight, willing to serve a Republican president, were his reactions to those riots—
.....and to the excesses and wrong turns of American liberalism.

3. Today, 50 years after its issuance, some liberals “bravely” acknowledge that 1965’s so-called Moynihan Report, in which the future senator warned about the dire future consequences of the collapse of the black family,...

4. .... Moynihan was branded as a racist by civil rights leaders, black activists, and run-of-the-mill liberals. “One began to sense,” Moynihan wrote, that “a price was to be paid even for such a mild dissent from conventional liberalism.”




5. [Moynihan] “emerged changed” from the experience. He came to feel “that American liberalism had created its own version of apolitique du pire(i.e., the worse the better) . . . in which evidence had been displaced by ideology.”

6. His fear that the empirically oriented liberalism of his youth was under assault from racial and cultural nihilists intensified after the 1967 riots that burned through Cleveland, Newark, and Detroit, where 43 died.

7. “The summer of 1967,” Moynihan wrote at the time, “came in the aftermath of one of the most extraordinary periods of liberal legislation, liberal electoral victories and the liberal dominance of the media . . . that we have ever experienced. ...accompanied by the greatest economic expansion in human history. And to top it all, some of the worst violence occurred in Detroit, a city with one of the most liberal and successful administrations in the nation; a city in which the social and economic position of the Negro was generally agreed to be far and away the best in the nation.” Moynihan s Mistake and the Left s Shame by Fred Siegel City Journal April 3 2015



So....even while Liberalism was in the ascendancy, "...extraordinary periods of liberal legislation, liberal electoral victories and the liberal dominance of the media . . . that we have ever experienced. ...accompanied by the greatest economic expansion in human history..."

....Liberalism was being taken over by the radicals and the far Left.

And we see their 'success' today.



Speaking the truth earns one the sobriquet 'racist.'

The so-called 'far left' hasn't been in power at the national level since when?

You tell us. When is the last time we had a genuinely left-liberal government in power? That means a left-liberal President,
with a left-liberal Congress?

Please use the correct term: communist.

Like me to prove it? No prob....

Check out these dozen aims of Liberals/Progressives/Democrats today...

1. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.(Obama: "I'll be more flexible after the election...")
2. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces.
3. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.


4. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.
5. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
6. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.


7. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
8. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch."
9. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.


10. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
11. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
12. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce


These were the goals of the communist party, as read on the floor of Congress January 10, 1963.


Still doubt you've been taught to believe exactly what the CPUSA espoused???
Exactly the sort of thinking advanced by Lenin and Marx.


More?
"Communist Party USA Chairman Vows Cooperation With Democratic Party The chairman of the National Committee of the Communist Party USA has penned a 2,023-word manifesto making the critical point that American Communists are eager to work with the Democratic Party to advance the modern communist agenda and achieve communist goals.

Communist Party chairman John Bachtell published his essay last week at People’s World, a “daily news website of, for and by the 99% and the direct descendant of the Daily Worker.” Communist Party USA Work With Democrats The Daily Caller

 

[PoliticalChic]

The brilliant Moynihan found he could work with Nixon....but the difficulty came from a surprising source...Liberals.



10. "[The plan was to] do away with the vast ‘service’ apparatus of the poverty industry that had been created by the Great Society,” .... He translated that approach into the Family Assistance Plan (FAP), which would have provided a guaranteed income to families in poverty. But FAP, despite Nixon’s support, was defeated not by the predictable right-wing critics like Arthur Burns, the thoughtful but dour chair of the Council of Economic Advisors who thought it too costly, but by intemperate liberals, who insisted on even more spending.




11. .... Moynihan distinguished between two types of liberalism.

Pluralist liberalism, with which Moynihan identified, emphasized situation and circumstance in making policy. This was the position, Moynihan wrote, “held by those, who with Edmund Burke . . . believe that in . . . the strength of . . . voluntary associations—church, family, club, trade union, commercial association—lies much of the strength of democratic society.”

[Here was Moynihan, echoing Burke, the conservative!]


But Moynihan saw another kind of liberalism developing, one caught up in an “overreliance upon the state.” This statist liberalism produced the bureaucratic “chill” that “pervades many of our government agencies” and has helped produce “the awesome decline of citizen participation in our elections.” That decline has continued to the present day, producing record-low turnouts in the recent New York and Los Angeles elections."
[This is the Liberalism of Obama, et al.]
Moynihan s Mistake and the Left s Shame by Fred Siegel City Journal April 3 2015



And today...right on this board, we are inundated by the statist Liberals....caught up in an “overreliance upon the state.”

 

[PoliticalChic]

12. " 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.”



13. 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 by Fred Siegel City Journal April 3 2015



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 black 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.

 

[Correll]

rac·ist
ˈrāsəst/
noun
plural noun: racists

1. 1.
   a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
   synonyms: racial bigot, racialist, xenophobe, chauvinist, supremacistMore
   "he was exposed as a racist"
   (racially) discriminatory, racialist, prejudiced, bigoted
   "a racist society"

adjective
plural noun: racists

1. 1.
   having or showing the belief that a particular race is superior to another.
   "we are investigating complaints about racist abuse at the club"

there's 4 races in the world ... you decide

That is NOT the way modern liberals use the word.

Hell, I was just called a racist for mentioning the fact that the NBA is majority black.

republican/democrat is not a race ... unless you're a braindead moron trolling for attention

Lets review.

1. You posted the standard definition of Racist.

2. I posted that Liberals today do NOT use the word that way.

3. You stated that "republican/democrat is not a race".


I am not trying to be cute or sarcastic in any way, but I have no idea how 3 relates to 2.


Please explain your idea more completely and in more detail.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Poor Moynihan.....he believed in rectitude and justice....and, therefore, built up a powerful coalition against himself.



14. "Moynihan stood back and watched the "....changes that had corroded ADA liberalism. [The 'new' Liberals] were organized into the powerful public-sector unions, whose statist aims came to define political liberalism.

Obsessed with race and gender, modern liberalism has no use for Burke’s “little platoons,” among which the family stands as the central institution of social stability. Nor, with its emphasis on “narrative” as opposed to empiricism, has contemporary liberalism shown much interest in facts.

The protesters screaming that “black lives matter” even as police killings of African-Americans reached new lows represent an ideological fervor whose grievances can never be sated.




15. Moynihan identified with the New Deal’s support for social insurance as opposed to the Great Society’s provision of social services. The services strategy, he argued, diverted money from low-income taxpayers to middle-class social workers... Moynihan helped save the Great Society from Nixon’s budgetary ax. He warned Nixon: “All the Great Society activist constituencies are lying out there in wait, poised to get you if you try to come after them, the professional welfarists, the urban planners, the day carers, the social workers, the public housers. . . .



16. The farrago of interests and organizations spawned by the Great Society became, by way of public-sector unions, the organizational backbone of Obama-era redistributive liberalism.

Today’s liberalism is nearly unrecognizable by Moynihan’s egalitarian standards. Liberals in New York and California are increasingly comfortable with a stratified society governed by crony-capitalist political elites. Their idea of reform is to make the lives of those in poverty more comfortable, even as they import cheap labor and reduce wages for working-class blacks."
Moynihan s Mistake and the Left s Shame by Fred Siegel City Journal April 3 2015



Too bad that there is no way back to the real Liberalism.....

 

[PoliticalChic]

17. " Moynihan was baffled by what had become of liberalism.

“A simple openness to alternative definitions of a problem and a willingness to concede the possibility of events taking a variety of courses. This ought to be the preeminent mode of liberalism, and yet somehow it is not,”...


That “simple openness” was blocked by an architecture of indignation built not on evidence, as Moynihan understood it, but rather on what Shelby Steele calls “poetic truths,” which insist, among other things, on the persistence of racial repression. The new shape-shifting structures of micro-oppression (and microaggression) guarantee explanations for why blacks are still held back by white subjugation, even as the symbols of that oppression—such as “hands up, don’t shoot”—have to be manufactured out of whole cloth.

[Get that?? Lies are the basis of the 'new' Liberalism.]




18. Moynihan’s fears of statist liberalism have been realized ....

While generations of immigrants have passed African-Americans on their way up the social ladder, black leaders continue to excel at trying to leverage grievances into more entitlements. African-Americans, explains Steele, courageously won their freedom only to sell themselves into a new sort of bondage—to perpetual victimization and federal subsidies.

The doors to modernity, which demand that individuals make something of themselves so as to advance in the marketplace, opened for blacks in the wake of the civil rights movement—only, explains Steele, to have blacks retreat into a group identity based on cultivating grievances.


When blacks balked as they approached the promised land of equality before the law, they engendered a new multicultural ideology to explain away America’s achievements in finally confronting its racial sins. Black nationalists, along with the new upper-middle-class white radicals, insisted on the permanence of racism, and politicians black and white used the specter of racism to expand their political influence. "
Moynihan s Mistake and the Left s Shame by Fred Siegel City Journal April 3 2015



So.....the power of Liberalism is based on lies about discrimination, and the outright stupidity of Americans who vote for said "politicians black and white used the specter of racism to expand their political influence. "


Nail on the head.

 

[BlindBoo]

.....when they connect on a human level with someone of a particular race whom they thought was inferior?

Must be one of them Republican sayings........indefensible as usual.