The Labels Matter

In a  recent diary entitled "Whats in a Label" we see that the country is conservative as opposed to Liberal as those terms are currently defined.  The actual problem for Liberals is that the term has been so destroyed by the extremes (both left and right) that the only safe haven for the rational is in the middle.  And the true conservative voice has articulated a camaraderie with the word "justice" that draws people from the rational middle while the true Liberal voice has been non existent.

In this election, as it is being defined by the right and left, there is no "moderate". You must choose between rightard and moonbat.  The problem for us Liberals is that the moonbats on the left so destroyed (and continue to destroy) the word Liberal, that the country went (and may continue to go) to the right.  It wasn't the Republicans and the rightards that were the actual cause of the destruction of true Liberalism.  The demise of Liberalism in the United States happened when "McGovern lost the 1972 presidential election in a landslide to incumbent Richard Nixon" because of overzealous moonbatedness.  The normal American is extremely focused on economic, and social justice and THAT is true Liberalism.  And true Liberalism cannot be politically defeated by conservatism unless and until it morphs into a maternalistic, nurturing, Big Rock Candy Mountain, "world view" wonderland headed by the council of feminist druids. At that point it is rejected by honest people who work for a living (even the women).  And as the people that work for a living comprise the bulk of the electorate, the party of the moonbats gets crushed. If the word "conservative" is construed to mean "just" and the word "Liberal" is construed to men "candy for everyone", then that is why people label themselves as conservative.  The words "all created equal" say nothing about robbing those that have earned their candy to nurture the poor.  Those "equality" words are about equal justice and equal opportunity.  And THAT is true classic Liberalism. The latter day variety adds an extra dose of rationality for good measure but that is the end of it.  Conservatism has morphed into inherited and unearned privilege under latter day Republicanism and that is what makes Republicans vulnerable.  Latter day Republicanism can be and should be defeated because of its lack of rationality and its lack of true justice.  Attempting to swing the pendulum of popular opinion to the far left will end in yet another defeat for Liberalism and a continued domination by the Republicans.

The latest Russ Feingold maneuver is quite typical of moonbat foot shooting: The public, at this point, is well aware that the Democrats seek an end to the Iraq fiasco and a return to multilateralism.  McCain is the proponent of continuing unilateralism and a war of rightardedness forever.  Feingold's call for immediate withdrawal is an "in yer face" moonbat play that forces the people to chose between two forms of lunacy. Such ploys are the "my way or the highway" nature of the moonbats.  At this point, Feingold's activity is not an appeal for rationality and justice.  It is an insistence on winner take all dominance for the nurture crowd.  And it is a loser.