George lakoff, whose Freedom? The battle over America's most important idea. Just began reading. Strikes me is enormously insightful. Except......

George lakoff, whose Freedom? The battle over America's most important idea. Just began reading. Strikes me is enormously insightful. Except.... for the title. There is no battle. Liberal opposition died decades ago. See Chris Hedges, death of the liberal class. F*** liberals as they f*** the future. Death of democracy in Weimar Germany part 2. " What makes them "conservatives" is not that they want to conserve the achievements oi those who fought to deepen American democracy. It's the reverse: They want to go back to before these progressive freedoms were established. What they want to conserve is, in most cases, the situation prior to the expansion oi traditional American ideas of freedom: before the great expansion of voting rights, before unions and worker protections and pensions, before civil rights legislation, before public health and environmental protections, before Social Security and Medicare, before scientific discoveries contradicted fundamentalist religious dogma. That is why they harp so much on narrow so-called originalist readings.... "