My Friends, where has your liberalism gone?

was a piece that was sent over by a mate this morning.
"My New England church-going friends aside, the majority of liberals are decidedly secular in their beliefs - agnosticism being the most popular (atheism requires too much commitment). However, the values they profess seem to be those taught by Christianity and, stated in other ways, by many of the world’s great religions. Such precepts as “Judge not, lest you be also judged” “Turn the other cheek,” “Do unto others as you would have them…” “Cast not the first stone…” “Forgive us as we forgive…” etc. Are these not the basic human attitudes that shape liberalism? They may have figured in a definition of liberalism decade ago, but now, I fear, the twenty first century definition would go something like: “A political school of thought based on the common hatred of George W. Bush, all conservatives – especially members of the Christian Right - and anyone who would give them credence.'"
We thought we were going to change the world after Vietnam. As we near the end of our political lives, we realise it is not going to happen. The best we can do is despair forlornly. Grief expresses itself in anger. We are living through the death of an ideal. Vale Camelot. The one brief shining moment that was known as Cam-e-lot.