CNN.com: Obamacare and the failure of half-baked liberalism

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6. I agree with him - but I'd call it half-assed liberalism

Here, cut and pasted from the middle of it, since you must not have read the whole opinion piece:

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Conservatives have been very effective at defining the national agenda throughout these years, defending the argument that government is the problem, as Ronald Reagan famously said, and nurturing a political coalition that has continually pushed liberals into the corner.

In response, many Democrats concluded that the best strategy was to veer toward the center. They have pushed programs that create incentives for Americans to do certain things within the private market, rather than just offering those services themselves directly through the government.

While many domestic programs in the United States included this kind of mix throughout the 20th century, in recent decades Democrats have embraced this approach even more aggressively for fear that anything more sweeping would die in CongressI
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I agree with this! When the right-wing started to rise during Reagan's adminstration and continued to flourish unabated, I recall Democrat after Democrat stating "I'm not a liberal." I can't imagine any right-winger ever acting like that. Who stood up for liberalism besides Ted Kennedy??? If you're liberal, BE A FUCKING LIBERAL not a watered-down compromised shadow of one. Stand up for what you believe! As far as the Affordable Care Act, that's not liberal, it's from a right-wing think tank!