David Griffey at Daffey Thoughts gets to the essence of contemporary liberalism:
Liberalism today is the use of the power of the State to enforce conformity to the will of the far left. As the quote from John Stuart Mill at the head of this post indicates, it has nothing to do with liberalism of the nineteenth century where, at least in the US and the Anglo-sphere it was a liberating philosophy. Liberalism has morphed into a philosophy of subjugation and servitude.
wake up and smell the latte.
Only if it’s made with fair trade coffee beans.
The problem with liberalism is its own incoherence. Rather than seeking the common good, it seeks to eradicate discrimination by discriminating, destroy poverty by destroying wealth, and free the masses by limiting their options.
Liberalism is a mental disorder. It’s adolescent, bizarre, comic book, weird. It is illusion, fantasy, delusion, pipe-dream; a program that is hoped or wished for but in fact is illusory or impossible to achieve.
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They are Democrats and other liars . . . decadent, foolish, ideological . . .
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AGW is a socialist scam.
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Nihilistic narcissist . . . saboteurs and traitors.
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At war with reality . . . utterly ignorant of reality. “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
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Instapundit: “Leftism is a religion. It’s just a shitty one that promises heaven on earth, while always yielding something closer to hell.” And, “Immigration policy is all about cheap labor and bought votes for both parties. […] this kind of behavior from the Bipartisan Governing Party is why we get Trump. And, if things go on, will get someone much worse than Trump.”
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They think they can solve any problem. However, their only objectives are control and power.
Liberal will not read this lest they are exposed to ideas other than their own.
This article discusses the intolerant doctrine of tolerance, as practiced by today’s secular radicals. It’s a recipe for fascism, but with a happier face.
http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2016/02/16271/
Statism…an end in itself.
Alain Badiou, the Grand Old Man of the French Left (he was the long-time Professor of Philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, the training college for university lecturers and high school principals) has made no secret of the core Liberal belief that “if you say A – strict egalitarian equality – you should not shirk from its consequences and gather the courage to say B – the terror needed to really defend and assert the A” and “Materialist dialectics assumes, without particular joy, that, till now, no political subject was able to arrive at the eternity of the truth it was deploying without moments of terror. Since, as Saint-Just asked: ‘What do those who want neither Virtue nor Terror want?’ His answer is well-known: they want corruption – another name for the subject’s defeat.”
The Liberal press makes no secret of its contempt for those whose formula is “1789 without 1793”; those “sensitive liberals” who want a decaffeinated revolution, a revolution which doesn’t smell of a revolution.
Liberalism delivers disappointment. It can never fulfill it’s promises. The resulting anger is what is driving today’s electorate. We need to bring back competitive Capitalism. What we have now is a liberal monopoly of government, big business and the medial which serves only it’s own interests.
Incoherent academics who celebrate violence and a love of totalitarian movements has ever been a French specialty since the Eighteenth Century.
Liberalism is manifested by its magnificent success in dividing to conquer. The PC weapon has been diabolical genius, cunningly attacking man’s weakest link in his sinful nature–his pride.
The most worshipped god in America today is the self. Liberalism has done wonders, on behalf of the diabolical, via the culture wars which then made the economic and political takeover a piece of cake–devil’s food cake.
Liberalism isn’t liberal. It’s a lying, slithering serpent seeking its prey.