tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5312853715123370916.post2591842487154422715..comments2024-03-17T00:10:44.022+00:00Comments on From Arse To Elbow: A Very English ConundrumDavid Timoneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03568348438980023320noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5312853715123370916.post-56865112657066858132018-06-14T08:17:25.853+01:002018-06-14T08:17:25.853+01:00Many of the travails of the 'liberal centre...Many of the travails of the 'liberal centre' are the results of their post-Cold War ideological triumphalism coming back to haunt them.<br /><br />If the 'end of history' merely amounts to a constant adjustment to impersonal and often irrational economic forces, then what room is there for politics or even for the rhetoric of 'progress' that liberals had traded on for years?<br /><br />What you're left with are the ridiculously concocted ideological struggles that have seen centrists engaging with anyone who questions both the political status quo and uncontrolled socio-economic change. This is why liberals have become more electorally impotent, but why they are also more dangerous in the sense that they are desperate for ideological crusades that could turn out to be very messy indeed. Ben Philliskirknoreply@blogger.com