Tired of getting hit by the Mission boomerang yet?
Electoral failings have led liberals as a whole, and most Jewish Americans, to recalibrate beliefs in the name of a cynical political cause. Recovering them will be painful, if not impossible. Many like me that grew up in the 1990s remember that there were battles over obscenity laws relating to gangsta' rap, blasphemous films like Kevin Smith's Dogma , and banned book lists. Nowadays those cultural battles by social conservatives have largely been shifted to the back-burner, while admittedly social mores have degraded to the point where unabashed "Liberals" like Michael Strahan and Sarah Haines host child sex performers on their shows without batting an eye. It is cases like this that show there is a major divergence between social and cultural big L "Liberals" and intellectual liberalism. Traditionally liberalism stresses that stricter government suppression of social freedom only drives transgressors into the shadows and promotes deviant abuses of i...