BY THE 60S WHIG LIBERALISM ITSELF HAD ENABLED POSTMODERN ANARCHISM OF RIGHT OR LEFT

"...As George W. Bush’s college years drew to a close, the most visible political faction on most campus was the Students for a Democratic Society, which took over the main Administration building, provoked a police bust, and temporarily halted instruction at my own school, Harvard, in the spring of 1969. They were distinguished more than anything else by a complete rejection of everything our parents stood for. In their eyes, the Cold War’s “defense of freedom” was greedy imperialism; civil rights laws simply masked enduring American economic racism; marriage and family were outdated bourgeois conventions; and democracy was a sham. They and they alone knew good from evil, and they had less than nothing to learn from the past. Even within their own ranks, they had contempt for democratic processes. In April of that memorable year, a vote of the SDS turned down a proposal to occupy University Hall by a vote of about two to one—but the next day, the losing minority faction undertook the occupation anyway, dragging their colleagues (and eventually most of the student body) in their wake...A similar omniscient spirit has dominated the Bush Administration from the day it took office...." DK, Blast from the past I

BY THE 60S WHIG LIBERALISM ITSELF HAD ENABLED POSTMODERN ANARCHISM OF RIGHT OR LEFT, similarly to the way American historiography, also in the 60s, had evolved the myth of all colonists as homogeneous commonwealthmen, Lowry's match stick men, to account for the success of the American Rebellion.