 in essence hindsight justification the progressives weren t in the middle they were in a society at one end and they wanted a society at the other end the middle is more or less where they got stopped as to an intervention that worked i actually have some nice things to say about the sec at least in theory i have a few nasty things to say as well but on the whole it has been a very good thing original message from fork admin URL mailto fork admin URL on behalf of geege schuman sent tuesday september NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER pm to fork URL subject liberalism in america liberalism propagandized as meddling in truth the middle american liberalism believes that in this respect it has made a major contribution to the grand strategy of freedom where both capitalists and socialists in the NUMBER s were trying to narrow the choice to either or either laissez faire capitalism or bureaucratic socialism the new deal persisted in its vigorous faith that human intelligence and social experiment could work out a stable foundation for freedom in a context of security and for security in a context of freedom that faith remains the best hope of free society today fluid yet crunchy gg URL 