Quote of the day from today's birthday person.
"First, what is liberalism, in general, if not an attack (logical or wrong, that's another question) on the existing order of things? isn't that true?
Well, the fact is that Russian liberalism is not an attack on the existing order of things, but an attack on the very essence of our things, on the things themselves, and not on the order alone, not on the Russian order, but on Russia itself.
My liberal went so far as to deny Russia itself, that is, he hates and beats his mother.
Every unfortunate and deplorable Russian fact is laughable and almost relished. He hates folk customs, Russian history, everything.
If he has an excuse, is it that he does not understand what he is doing, and takes his hatred of Russia for the most fruitful liberalism (oh, you will often meet a liberal among us who is applauded by others, and who is actually perhaps the most ridiculous, the most stupid and dangerous, and he himself does not know it!).
Not long ago some of our liberals took this hatred of Russia almost as a true love of country and boasted that they saw better than others what it should consist of; But now they have become more open and even the words "love of the motherland" have become shameful, even the concept has been banished and deleted as harmful and unimportant."
P. from. Dostoevsky, "The Idiot".