Source:The Young Turks giving the finger to The O’Reilly Finger.

“On Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor, resident grumpy old man Bill O’Reilly wondered with Tim Graham and Erick Erickson why liberal radio is failing. Why…it must be that America hates liberalism, right? Gotta keep those damn “coastal” liberals in check. Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola, and Wes Clark Jr. point out logical errors in the Fox News argument.”

From The Young Turks

I hate to keep saying this, but again, it depends on what you mean by liberalism, as well as conservatism.

If your idea of a Liberal, is someone who looks like they were in college or high school in 1969, perhaps who dropped out of high school or college in 1969, to join some left-wing, take down the man campaign, or something, who perhaps was interested in volunteering for the North Vietnamese military, to “fight off those American invaders”, who looks like they’ve never gotten a haircut, let alone a shave in their life, who talks like they’re been on a month long marijuana high and speaks in nothing but beatnik or hippie lingo, then I agree with what Fox News, as well as what the mainstream media, what closeted Socialists, including The Young Turks calls liberalism, is in serious decline in  America. Because most Americans, including real Progressives, don’t want a some type of Socialist takeover in America.

But, at risk of stating the obvious (which seems to be necessary a lot when I’m commenting on something that The Young Turks is saying) that’s not liberalism. Hippieism, or to use a more modern term, hipsterism, is not liberalism. Those pop culture movements and cultures, ways of life, not a political philosophy.

Liberalism is based off of liberal democracy and the individual rights. The United States Government, is a liberal democratic government. And you don’t hear anyone, except the far-left and the militant far-right claiming there is someone need to take down our liberal democratic form of government and replacing it with something else.