Europeans don´t lie about being communists.

That´s the difference.

It has long surprised me that more notice has not been given to the transparently adolescent quality of the Sixties brand of Leftism. Sex drugs and rock and roll; don´t trust anybody over thirty; if it feels good, do it etc. are not particularly subtle signs of immaturity. Neither is the rejection of the study and hard work required to acquire a meaningful education. One might have thought that the juvenile turn of academia would have been self-evident to all when courses and entire disciplines(!) began to be devoted to trendy, frothy, superficial and easy things like movies, TV and pop stars, not to mention the frivolous "X Studies" programs that are no use to anyone and demand neither intellectual ability nor willingness to study. All of this smacks of adolescence. Most telling, however, would seem to be the relentless, indeed almost comical emphasis on sex.

Playing political radical, hero and heroine of social and economic justice, savior of the world etc. etc. etc. was and remains far more interesting than learning anything of consequence. Reading the tracts and polemics of characters like Saul Alinsky and expressing righteous indignation at the injustices of society was exciting. Hillary Clinton, who has never done anything in her life but play an important, socially conscious and heroic person, is an example of what happens when children are served such rubbish in place of the more substantial fare of traditional liberal education.

Then there is weed. My guess is that smoking weed prolongs adolescence. It cannot be a coincidence that marijuana use, while not confined to the Left, seems to be far more common and important there.

One of the things I enjoy most about Lucianne.com is that the comments here are frequently more well written and more carefully thought out than the articles themselves...

McCann describes American liberals as spoiled children. He has a point, but this is a big problem for conservatives. Spoiled children don´t care about facts or the truth. The conventional wisdom is now that it´s not cool to be a Republican. They can´t tell you why, but they will tell you they would never vote for anyone except a Democrat. How can anyone campaign against such arrogant ignorance?

Have to agree with #2 on the reefer....

I have an Ex Friend, a Doctor from Poland who is as Lib as they come...I suppose he learned NOTHING from his parents and the Communists in Poland.

I came to the conclusion, and I mentioned it to him, that every generation thinks ´THEY´ are smarter than their parents/grandparents and that THEY fall for the canard that ´they just didn´t spend enough money solving the problems´. I also pointed out the Left never solves problems, they make them worse and on top of that make dupes/useful idiots of those that believe their crap.

#4 is so right: willful ignorance, arrogance,and irrational thinking are a very difficult situation to overcome. It is critical to motivate the sane voters to see the dangers and go vote. Vast numbers can overcome the fraud.

I don´t think you will find any real individualists on the left. Most are complainers who have a chip on their shoulder, like most blacks, against some outside influence that is the cause of their ´suffering.´ They view their situation as an injustice. They seek out others in the same quagmire for comfort and reinforcement. These are not the people that make America great.

I think that is why liberals love Barney so much. The kids on the program always have what they need to do the next fun thing. Barney is always hovering around them (like the government) and is credited with making all the material things magically appear.

What message is that? It is that someone else will provide for your needs. All you have to do is love Barney and have fun!

Excuse the follow-up post but just because the muling,puking infants on the left buy into a foolish notion like socialism is no reason to give the ganja a bad name.

Libertarians (conservative purists) are ready to fight for your right to live your life as you see fit an indulge both your best and worst habits.

If you are not free to screw up then you are not free.

The list of ´acceptable drugs´ is long and well known....coffee,booze,tobacco..etc.

I saw a very informative short movie on Hillbuzz several months ago. Kevin DuJan was interviewed along with former Leftists. Bill Ayers was interviewed and I was surprised at how twitchy and nervous he was. He was very guarded with his reponses and kept looking over his shoulder, even though a wall was at his back. Made me wonder how secure he really is with his Radical Marxist Weatherman philosophy, even after all of these years.

#3 “…One of the things I enjoy most about Lucianne.com is that the comments here are frequently more well written and more carefully thought out than the articles themselves…”

So very true. Not to mention comparing the comments here to the raving imbeciles and their juvenile name-calling so often found in the comments at the end of the articles!

I REALLY enjoyed this article as it so perfectly describes the mindset and attitudes of a couple very close relatives that inhabit the Bay Area. My sis and one of my daughters do not really like to think, they like to be TOLD what to think. They got that way by living their lives in SF and Marin County where e v e r y o n e is a lib. They know nothing... but sincerely think they know it all because they inform themselves by reading the SF Chron and the online NY Times headlines. Their peers tell them they are enlightened so they believe it. I love them both but family gatherings...well, you can guess.

Agree with #13, except that, including libs, almost everyone in the Bay Area agrees and states that the Chron is now nothing more than a struggling tabloid.

David Horowitz, who himself grew up in a leftist family and was a ´60s radical, saw through the American Left´s radical destructive agenda years ago and has written extensively about it. His, ´´Barack Obama´s Rules For Revolution, The Alinsky Model,´´ seems to be playing out before our very eyes. It begins with an election eve 2008 quote from 0bama:

´´We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America,´´ ...He sure is trying, eh?