Ake's idea of what liberalism is all about more than amply demonstrates that he is either totally clueless in the area of political science or is deliberately and intentionally trying to muddy the waters with irrelevancies. Maybe a liberal (if I may be forgiven for the use of the word) mixture of both.

I harken back to the Black Knight scene from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." His argument is armless, legless, and totally without merit. Yet, he keeps blithering on. Naught to do but, as Schiller said to Dante, "Look once, pass on, and think no more about him."

Don Firth