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Iraq, Bush & political label confusion. "If the conservative driven experiment in nation building in Iraq enjoys even modest success in the coming years, it will provide long-term nourishment for progressive ideas in America. And if it fails, as many progressive critics of Operation Iraqi Freedom think it is bound to, it will strengthen over the long haul conservative proclivities in America. To understand these paradoxes, it is necessary to recall the simple truth that is increasingly blurred by the present partisan strife: Most conservatives in America as well as most progressives are small �l� liberals and small �d� democrats .. ". MORE "Political Paradoxes" by Peter Berkowitz, GMU Law School.

As I always ask my lefty friends, "Call yourself a progressive, eh? So where's the progress?" The mistake Berkowitz makes here is to flatter the Left they way the Left attempts to flatter itself -- by conflating the good-government Progressives of 90 years ago (most of whom where Republicans) with the Michael Moore - Tom Hayden - Paul Krugman Left of today. It just won't wash. "Progressives" today are in many ways illiberal and anti-democratic -- hence the twin problems of "political correctness" and Leftist tyrants in robes. Posted by Greg Ransom | TrackBack