Brilliant, Michael! The whole Greek pantheon could probably be read as mythic figures of the Democrats.
BobW
--- Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 20:49 -0700, andie
> nachgeborenen wrote:
>
> > 1) there isn't a liberal version of the good life,
> > being a political liberal means having the state
> be as
> > neutral as possible on visions of the good life.
>
> This doesn't seem a very accurate description of
> actually-
> existing liberals, who as far as I can tell are
> great
> promoters of regulation by the wise for the benefit
> of
> the unwise (whether the latter like it or not).
> Child
> seats in cars, motorcycle helmets, no-smoking rules
> --
> and now, of course, we have the latest bright idea,
> compulsory enrollment in health insurance, recently
> adopted by that Pallas Athene of liberalism, Hillary
>
> Clinton.
>
> No offense, Andie -- I'm really confused. Are you
> talking about actual liberals, or what "liberalism"
> ought to mean?
>
> Then, of course, there are, and were, and apparently
>
> ever will be, Cold war liberals, and Bomb Serbia
> liberals, and Iran Sucks liberals.... but enough
> already.
>
>
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