'Let us now praise famous men'

I am not a Liberal anymore. I am a postmodernist which is somewhere beyond politics. It is a cultural, philosophical discipline that informs political action but it is only incidentally political. Yet still I remember.
The great Liberal fight that took this society from primitivism to sophistication, from ignorance to philosophy, from oppression to empowerment cannot be forgotten. The whole of postmodernism is contained in an 'infrastructure', if you will, of liberal instituitions and liberal ideals.
Liberalism is no less than the attempt to balance individual liberty with social responsibility. Those of us practicing liberty bordering on license cannot forget that we do so at the sufferance of enlightened government and within the strictures and guarantees of a liberal constitution. We owe.
We owe great debts to people like Senator Kennedy who honored a sense of community not particularly shared by postmodernists. He was a modernist and therefore beyond the characterizations of Left and Right that originated with the French revolution of the 19th century. He was a man of his time and of his country.
We shall miss him.