"I would think that if you understand what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees, that we would someday become communists."

-- Jane Fonda, 1970 speech at Michigan State University

With no thanks to Jane Fonda or the like, it appears the Cold War is over. Communism is toppling across Eastern Europe and it now looks as if the dominoes are falling in the cradle of communism itself, the Soviet Union.

And now many American liberals have begun whining that the United States and the White House are not doing enough to aid this democratic revolution. These are, of course, the same liberals who complained that we went too far in invading Panama to give those people the democracy they wanted and deserve.

It seems liberals have developed a hypocritical stance on today's rapidly changing world.

Did they support President Reagan's October 1983 invasion of Grenada, which freed the island nation of the scourge of communism? No, they objected harshly to it.

Do they currently support the Contras fighting communism in Central America? Nope, in fact, they are leading to their demise.

But all of the sudden, in late 1989, liberals decided to jump on the democracy and freedom bandwagon. Well, liberals have done nothing but perhaps prolong the icy grip communism is quickly losing in the world.

Conservative Americans, on the other hand, have not maintained communism's stay in Eastern Europe, but instead have been a shining light of hope for the real winners of the Cold War -- the citizens of Romania, East Germany, etc.

Even the Soviet Union's hierarchy is catching on to the fact communism is leading to the annihilation of their country. The courageous people of these lands have risen up and let their "leaders" know they want the improved personal life that democracy offers to all.

And with the impending collapse of East Germany's economy it probably won't be too long before people clamor for the financial situation offered by our superior capitalistic system.

Liberals in America have scoffed at statements referring to communism as an "evil empire," but every day it becomes more and more apparent that communism is just that. Intimidation in private lives by secret police forces, censorship and a lack of both quality and quantity in consumer goods for the public, all keynotes of communism, indicate this to be true.

It now appears liberals have realized they are on the wrong side of the coin.

Once opposing any involvement to disrupt this system, they are coming to the painful conclusion that their conservative counterparts were right all the time -- the people of the world want and desire American democracy, not the stagnate communist ideology.

So while the citizens of fallen communist dictators abroad and conservatives in America celebrate the fall of communism and the end of the Cold War, liberals should concede their defeat and rethink their philosophy for the 1990s.