The Reason For Liberalism's Success

You can find it in the October number of Chronicles. Unfortunately, it's not on line. But if you can find a copy at your local newsstand, look for Chilton Williamson, Jr's column and you'll find the reason for liberalism's success.

The reason for liberalism's success plainly has nothing to do with man's nature, or with Providence (as Tocqueville thought), or with the Triumph of Reason. It is the result, quite simply of a single, simple fact: Liberalism, in theory, and in practice, is easy. It is the prevailing simpleminded political doctrine (never to be confused with a philosophy) of weakminded people suffering from a form of intellectual and moral laziness that produces a debilitating, and finally fatal, acquiescence, slackness, timidity, cowardice, nonresistance, and surrender in true believers and fellow travelers alike, and, finally in those who happen merely to be hanging about the neighborhood.

He elucidates quite convincingly for a couple of pages. But not, alas, on-line.