HOW TO SAVE AMERICAN LIBERALISM

Many people say to me: Kirby, why are you against the left? You're a poet.

It has apparently not occurred to many that the left -- inspired by Plato and Marx, is totally against freedom of speech. Look at North Korea, Russia under Stalin, Romania under Ceausescu, China under Mao, Myanmar under the weirdos in control of it now.

Does the left lead to freedom of speech for anyone?

NO.

So, there is still liberalism, or what's left of it. But Fox is far more liberal (in terms of allowing everyone to speak) than the so-called liberal stations such as MSNBC or the crummy leftist newspapers like the NYT.

WSJ has many more voices across the spectrum than the NYT.

Liberalism is dead. Long live liberalism.

But who can save it? The left doesn't want it. They've closed down freedom of speech on thousands of campuses. Can the anarchists save it? Not likely. There aren't enough.

Who's left?

Who overthrew the communists in Romania and in Russia?

It was, quite simply, the Christian right. This is why I back the Christian right. They are the only remaining force that can meet the leftists with the necessary zeal. Michelle Bachman is practically Joan of Arc. She wants to be first into the fray. This is why I support her. I think we have to worry about a theocracy. It's true, we do. The Calvinists in particular are dangerous in this regard. But religious pluralism is better than Marxist monoculture. If Perry and Bachman's forces slam into the Marxist left, the Marxists won't have a prayer. Not that Obama and his ilk would try one.

Who do they have to pray to? They have the bearded prophet of profit-sharing: Marx. Look where that got North Korea or Myanmar.

We have to stop them. And so the poets and writers need to make a holy alliance with the Christian right. It's the only hope left for American liberalism.