How close is my Use-By date?

Is this what is making liberals anxious? Teddy Kennedy must be getting close. I can't think off hand of any great liberals who are still involved in Australian parliamentary politics. They are coming to the end of their careers in the law and journalism - Jim Spiegelman, Phillip Adams, Michael Kirby. Come to think of it, whom would you call a liberal in Australian Politics now? We don't seem to have any liberal elder Statesmen - at least not like the USA does. I don't include Gough Whitlam because he towers even above any secular labels.

Everything is just so much business oriented towards the bottom line.

Maybe India and China might bring a fresh way of thinking about the distribution of the resources and wealth of the world. Might? It is still the survivors of the Enlightenment who live out their existence in World Vision, Medicin sans Frontieres, Red Cross, whom I can see as being flag bearers for liberalism. Maybe politics has no place for liberals after all. As an idea, liberalism cannot be imposed through political and legislative means. It is about a lived life.