Yet one historic strength of the left was its belief that morality is also a matter of public virtue ó justice, equality, generosity, tolerance.

In my lifetime I have seen no evidence that the left is particularly interested in justice, equality, generosity, or tolerance. They are interested in power – justice and equality can go screw themselves. There greatest acts of “generosity” are to transfer their own money to hate-mongering propogandists and everyone else’s money to whomever they believe they can purchase votes from. And as for tolerance, the most intolerant people I know are politically left. The Left is not liberal. It is a collection of illiberal reactionaries. Until such time as “The Left” recognizes that they don’t have a Gaia-given right to hijack terms like “justice”, that “equality” isn’t something one bludgeons “society” into, that “generosity” is not measured by how much of Other People’s Money gets siezed, and that “tolerance” means accepting that other people may have darned good reasons for disagreeing with them, they’ll never “reclaim” any damned thing other than their rightful place in the Dustbin of History.

Leftist are not liberals and sick and tired of hearing the bigotted bastards describe themselves as “liberal”.