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In essence, hindsight justification.  The progressives weren't in the
middle, they were in a society at one end and they wanted a society at
the other end.  The middle is more or less where they got stopped.

As to an intervention that worked, I actually have some nice things to
say about the SEC, at least in theory.  I have a few nasty things to say
as well, but on the whole it has been a very good thing.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: fork-admin@xent.com [mailto:fork-admin@xent.com] On Behalf Of
Geege
> Schuman
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 6:37 PM
> To: fork@example.com
> Subject: Liberalism in America
> 
> liberalism
> propagandized as meddling
> in truth, the middle
> 
> "American liberalism believes that in this respect it has made a major
> contribution to the grand strategy of freedom. Where both capitalists
and
> socialists in the 1930's were trying to narrow the choice to either/or
--
> either laissez-faire capitalism or bureaucratic socialism -- the New
Deal
> persisted in its vigorous faith that human intelligence and social
> experiment could work out a stable foundation for freedom in a context
of
> security and for security in a context of freedom. That faith remains
the
> best hope of free society today."
> 
> fluid yet crunchy,
> gg
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/schleslib.html


