ABSTRACT
Liberalism has been lingering on for some time. There is no doubt about it; it has been dying a very leisurely death. Liberalism is clearly a case of a failed prophecy. Liberals not only maintain their faith in Keynesian economics, they retain an allegiance to nationalized health care, federalized education, and welfare on demand. Liberals believe in class warfare. They favor a redistribution of wealth. They are also schizophrenic internationalists. The paradox, and perhaps the undoing, of the resurgent liberal hegemony was that its ineptitude and deceitfulness were at odds with its self-image. Liberals constantly promoted themselves as the best and the brightest, but here they were being neither. Liberal legitimacy depended on its advocates being superior human beings. Liberals imagine that when they provide the appropriate conditions, personal growth is automatic. Liberals, in particular, though they pride themselves on "critical thinking", are rarely critical of their own ideas.
