| | First of all, I do not recognize the hijacking of the word liberal by writers such as this. I prefer the term Tim Virkkala used for them. He called them prodigals. Like most prodigals, the author is a socialist.
Like most of the war hawks, he thinks that everything is simple and shows just how out-of-touch he is. The anti-war movement is hardly a bunch of prodigals and socialists. It includes people like Paul Craig Roberts, Doug Bandow, Ron Paul, Justin Raimondo, Sheldon Richman, Pat Buchanan, and Karen Kwiatkowski.
The pro-war position is the true prodigal position on this anyway. Prodigals believe that they came remake the world using force, just like Wilson did. Justin Raimondo also points out that some leaders of the war party today were the prodigals of the 1960's. They abandoned the Blue Team when it embraced the likes of Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern.
Prodigalism is bankrupt and needs to die. Its bankruptcy is what has made the spread of conservatism and its bloodshed possible. "The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum," wrote Rand. This certainly applies to the USA today.
It's actually miraculous that conservatism has lasted as long as it has. The first conservatives were the Puritans of Massachusetts. They were socialists and religious fanatics. Then, conservatism rose up again in the form of Alexander Hamilton, John Marshall, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster. They were consolidationists and corporate-welfare statists. It finally came to a climax with Lincoln and his predecessors.
Liberalism is what America needs today. Liberalism is free markets, peace, free speech, and free press. It has been around for many years and will never go away.
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