保守派眼中的蠢驴(图)

"Liberals" in America are roughly what Europeans call
"social democrats": left-of-centre supporters of the welfare state
who believe that government power should be used to protect ordinary citizens from the hard edges of capitalism. They favor maximum personal liberty while believing that business should be intelligently regulated.

　　Conservatives bewail their blindness to the distortions that arise from bureaucratic meddling in the free market. They also accuse liberals of assuming that society responds positively to government-sponsored "improvement". For conservatives, most improving of society is the prerogative of private citizens acting voluntarily, not of politicians -- much less of unelected bureaucrats who compel citizens to do what bureaucrats think is best for other people.

　　Liberals were usually the dominant actors in US politics from 1933 to 1980. With the election of Ronald Reagan a new era dawned: now conservatives have most of the bright political ideas and liberals are on the defensive. Today’s cartoon by Chuck Asay echoes the conservative critique of today’s liberals.

　　"Some liberals," Asay asserts, "love people of color...unless they happen to be conservative." The first frame shows two Democratic donkeys -- almost all liberals are Democrats -- joining blacks in singing a favorite son

[1] [2] [3] 下一页