{"id":781,"date":"2005-05-03T00:32:33","date_gmt":"2005-05-03T00:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:08","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:08","slug":"whats_liberalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Liberalism For?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAPPED ran a contest for the best &#8220;elevator pitch&#8221; for liberalism, and just put up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/weblog\/archives\/2005\/05\/index.html#006316\" target=\"browser\">winning entry<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Liberals believe our common humanity endows each of us, individually, with the right to freedom, self-government, and opportunity; and binds all of us, together, in responsibility for securing those rights.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Can someone can tell me why that wouldn&#8217;t work as a motto for the AEI??<\/p>\n<p>This falls into the category of &#8220;what were they <b>thinking<\/b>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Look. <i>Liberalism is about using the power of government to make sure that the powerless get a fair deal.<\/i> There&#8217;s obviously a useful and important set of arguments to make over what &#8220;fair&#8221; looks like. But if this &#8211; combined with laughable Lakoff-ian attempts at rhetorical devices &#8211; are what the Democrats plan on running under, I&#8217;m wondering exactly how old I&#8217;ll be before Democrats start winning national races again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAPPED ran a contest for the best &#8220;elevator pitch&#8221; for liberalism, and just put up the winning entry: Liberals believe our common humanity endows each of us, individually, with the right to freedom, self-government, and opportunity; and binds all of us, together, in responsibility for securing those rights. Can someone can tell me why that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}