Nothing politically correct about Bethell.  I think you will enjoy what Rauch has to say about Bethell's 50 Years in America!  If you have any liberal friends, you should recognize them in this small piece of Bethell's work and perhaps have a desire to read "50 Years in America".

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 March 15, 2013 by Eric Rauch

In a fantastic summary article for The American Spectator titled “Fifty  Years in America,” Tom Bethell makes some observations about what he has  seen in his time in America including anti-Americanism liberalism. Born in Great  Britian, Bethell came to the States in 1962 to study New Orleans jazz. Politics  were not his primary interest, but by the time his biography on clarinetist  George Lewis was published, interest in the music was waning—both from the  performers and the listeners. Bethell became a journalist instead.

One of the things he noticed early on was an “automatic anti-Americanism of  the liberals.” This “anti” attitude has not gotten any better in fifty years.  Bethell notes:

Bethell doesn’t hold back regarding his views about liberalism. He calls ‘em  like he sees ‘em.

What do modern leftism (American liberalism) and communism have in common?  Both are godless and egalitarian, but liberalism has “evolved.” Communists  wanted to kill off capitalism, for example, but liberals know it must be  preserved—in a highly taxed and regulated form. It must be permitted to create  sufficient wealth to redistribute to favored groups—single mothers, minorities,  college professors—if the system is to keep Democrats in office. Liberals want  market outcomes to be “predictable.” Appeals to envy and blame heaped on the  rich can also be used as a bludgeon, as Obama has shown.

According to Bethell, a huge wrench in the liberal-left ideology machine is  the “revival of Islam.” He writes:

Islam today probably threatens us as much as international Communism once  did, but with this big difference: The intellectuals, who often secretly admired  Communism, loathe Islam. They are afraid—rationally afraid—of those who are  willing to die for what they believe… Many [liberals] believe little more than  that we should make women equal to men and make amends to the planet by ceasing  to reproduce. Meanwhile we should feel free to enjoy ourselves by treating sex  as fun without consequences. But these ignoble causes are not things liberals  will die for and the Islamists probably know this.

Liberals are more than happy to have you live with the consequences of their  worldview, but they are less inclined to do so themselves. If Bethell’s “Fifty  Years in America” is any indication, the next fifty are going to be very  interesting.

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