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  4. Andrea, they’re for themselves and for those who think identically to themselves. They hate Palin because she didn’t go to the “right schools” and doesn’t think like them. It doesn’t matter what she says or does.

    Ever listen to liberals? They say things like, “Well, I don’t consider him a real liberal” because of some minor point of disagreement. To be a “real liberal” is to be in lockstep. That’s why an old joke that made the rounds in DC back in the 1970s still rings true. “Q: What’s the difference between a liberal and a fascist? A: A liberal doesn’t wear jack boots.”

    A couple quotes from this source still ring true:

    For example, Secretary of the Interior and PWA head Harold Ickes, in a letter to the editor of The Nation, wrote –

    “that so-called liberals spend so much time trying to expose fellow liberals to the sneering scorn of those who delight to have their attention called to clay feet…I get very tired of the smug self-satisfaction, the holier-than-thou attitude, the sneering meticulousness of men and women with whose outlook on economic and social questions I often regretfully find myself in accord. It seems to be a fact that a reformer would rather hold up to ridicule another reformer because of some newly discovered fly speck than he would to clean out Tammany Hall. Sometimes even the fly speck is imaginary.” (Schlesinger, The Politics of Upheaval, 413-414)

    There was also this, from Rex Tugwell, one of the most liberal members of the administration, who you would think would have some sympathy with Roosevelt’s liberal critics:

    “They complain incessantly that the administration is moving into the conservative camp, but do nothing to keep it from going there. The progressive mind is stratified with dogmatism of the most appalling kind…The progressive theme-song is ‘I’ll tell you about my panacea but you must not tell me about your panacea.’” The progressives seemed to Tugwell perennial skirmishers – free, like feudal chieftains, to change sides whenever the ideas to which they held allegiance prompted them to do so. ”They are like Chinese warriors who decide battles, not by fighting, but by desertion…They rush to the aid of any liberal victor, and then proceed to stab him in the back when he fails to perform the mental impossibility of subscribing unconditionally to their dozen or more conflicting principles.” (Schlesinger, The Politics of Upheaval, 414)

    If they tear into their fellow liberals so, how can we expect anything less towards non-liberals?

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