"The name "liberalism" has now drifted so far from its moorings that it has turned into a lie. Anybody who uses "liberal" these days is trying to put one over on you. It's like Florida swampland peddlers talking about their "beautiful lakeshore." You can stop listening at that point, because nothing you're going to hear is true. Liberalism used to mean something. Today it's pure Florida swampland, complete with snapping alligators.
Consider: Martha Coakley, the Democrat candidate for US Senate for "Teddy Kennedy's seat" in Massachusetts, as Middlesex County DA kept in prison a victim of one of the worst miscarriages of justice during the witchhunts of the 1990s against supposed Satanic child abusers, based on pressured testimony by very young (and therefore unreliable) children. The case against the Admiraults was admirably exposed by the Wall Street Journal, who made it overwhelmingly clear that they were the innocent victims of a radical feminist delusional assault. But thanks to Martha Coakley's efforts, Gerald Amirault was left to rot in jail long after it was clear he was innocent.
The l-word still has a positive flavor from the old days, when it meant tolerance, open-mindedness, and the active defense of freedom."
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