A New Liberal Movement

While it may have the appearance of a pendulum swing - the Liberal Movement is emerging again. The reasons are complex and matters of some serious historical interest - but the practical impact is a new kind of political coalescence - and looks an awful lot like the Liberal phenomenon which had its roots in the late 19th and early 20th Century. These produced or supported the ACLU, the worker's movements, the Women's Movement, and ultimately, was the core of both the desegregation battle and the rejection of the Viet Nam War - not to speak of literally thousands of other social changes. How it wore out is not much different than what is happening to the Conservative Movement - leadership personnel die off - the focus is lost - and the movement loses its constituency among the general population.

While the Liberal reemergence was fully predictable in the early 1960's when we saw it winding down - it is now happening. The importance of this particular comment on this page at this time is to remind those interested in executive appointments that there is massive change in the air - "times are 'a changin" - and those who think they have it knocked for an appointment might be on soft sand, and those who feel lost and disenfranchised may have future in executive government before too long, and for a long time - if history follows history.