For years I have wrestled with the ideas of political liberalism to understand the root philosophical ideas upon which the whole hierarchy is constructed. For some time I looked at atheism as the rational base, but I discovered a number of theological skeptics who were not political liberals. In fact, one fellow who has become a long time friend, said that he was willing to give the founding fathers a lot of credit for basing the constitution upon God-given freedoms because individual freedoms would "not be safe" in the hands of liberal politicians.
I looked at a number of utopian ideas like Plato's Republic, Thomas Moore's Utopia , Marx's Das Kapital and others, but, while these schemes all sacrificed individual freedoms to an all-powerful state, the vocabulary of our current political "progressive" movement does not specifically go back to these sources.
It came to me a few months ago as I watched the "Occupy Wall Street" people demonstrate against "the rich." These people are ANGRY. They are not simply expressing a political idea based upon some set of rational premises. They are simply angry. They are angry enough to kill. They are angry enough to destroy the property of other people. They are angry enough to collectively vote to tear down our constitution and replace it with something else.
Where does this anger come from?
Once I saw liberalism through this lens, many things fell into place. For three generations now, we have watched a revolution take place in our schools and our churches: Our children have been taught that the American Constitution is an old out-of-date document that permits corporations to amass wealth at the expense of everyday working people. As a result, our schools began turning out children who know nothing of our founding principles and who have been taught how to be poor. Yes, we are teaching our children to be poor by teaching them to be angry!
Modern liberal political operatives are now harvesting the results of this process theough "community organizing." They go into poor neighborhoods created by their relentless war on the family, their war on corporations, their war on "poverty" and convince these destitute people that they have a "right" to what others have created. Under the guise of crusading for the "rights of the poor", they bus these people to the polls during elections thus polluting the political system and propelling angry politicians into public office who rob our treasury and destroy our freedoms.
The freedoms we enjoy as Americans are built upon a foundation of a civil society where wealth creation is celebrated. Wealth creation comes from the quiet contemplation of ideas in our homes.
How about it seekers? On November 6th we are going to have chance to shut this diabolical process down and create a society where our angry children can become quiet once again and set about to build themselves a future secured by our liberties.
We may not get another chance of liberalism prevails.
