What I see in BC posts is a remarkable focusing over the course of several months, and even several years, of a critique of liberal political philosophy and politics. This focus parallels a similar development among major commentators. Goldberg’s ‘Liberal Fascism,’ for example, has provided renewed attention to the illiberal goals of liberalism.

Action is important. But knowledge comes first, resulting in an illumination: “So that’s what the liberals are up to, and that’s why what they want to do is likely to harm themselves, others, my family, and me.” After knowledge comes voting. Admittedly the left likes to rig some voting, but no amount of rigging is likely to turn the tide of a major swing to the conservatives/Republicans, especially if the memes trend that way. The left will lose heart, and numbers, if the trends continue as they are going.

Michael Savage says that liberalism is a mental disease. Perhaps it is even more a false religion (and even more accurate to say that societal mental disease results from false religion/belief.) BC has provided much good discussion of the faith-based nature of liberalism. Mainline protestants have declined, but the church liberals have morphed into political liberals with an updated verion of Luther’s manifesto: faith (in human perfectabilty) alone, works (funded by taxpayers) alone, word (statist-friendly media) alone.

Because Ted Kennedy seemed like the truest of true liberal believers (though I never knew him to give anything other than other peoples’ money to anything), all of his sins were forgiven. Already we see the haloed iconography of Teddy that we have already seen of Obama. Just as Wrichard said: for liberals virtue comes from having the right beliefs.