Camille Paglia: A Thinking Liberal

Finally, I have found a liberal that is using his/her brain instead of blindly following the rhetoric. Camille Paglia wrote a fantastic column today concerning Palin and feminists.

Now that's the Sarah Palin brand of can-do, no-excuses, moose-hunting feminism -- a world away from the whining, sniping, wearily ironic mode of the establishment feminism represented by Gloria Steinem, a Hillary Clinton supporter whose shameless Democratic partisanship over the past four decades has severely limited American feminism and not allowed it to become the big tent it can and should be. Sarah Palin, if her reputation survives the punishing next two months, may be breaking down those barriers. Feminism, which should be about equal rights and equal opportunity, should not be a closed club requiring an ideological litmus test for membership.

Paglia also discusses the "witch-trial hysteria" of the Democrats and media toward Palin, abortion, the death penalty, and the "disturbing trend" of the Democratic Party in becoming "judgmental and intolerant".

Conservatives are demonized, with the universe polarized into a Manichaean battle of us versus them, good versus evil. Democrats are clinging to pat group opinions as if they were inflexible moral absolutes. The party is in peril if it cannot observe and listen and adapt to changing social circumstances.

Just as Paglia "may not agree a jot with [Palin] about basic principles", Paglia and I disagree also. But it is refreshing to find a Democrat (or Republican for that matter) who looks at issues logically and not emotionally.

Camille Paglia's column is a must-read. Trust me on this!