Classical liberalism included thoughtful people such as Bill Buckley and Ronald Reagan. The Gipper once joshed the Right views every day as the Fourth of July while the Left views every day as April 15th. It was funny then, but liberalism is a dangerous concept today. American liberalism has descended into a black cauldron of hate and violence, antisemitism, murder, shallowness and anti-intellectualism.
Have we entered the new Dark Ages? Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, “The right for one man to swing his fist ends where the other fellow’s nose begin.” But now American Liberals violate the laws of God and Man with impunity.
We see shallowness in the form of the despicable subhuman Taylor Lorenz, a disgusting child who ought to have her mouth washed out with soap and sent to bed without her supper. And if that is not enough, she needs to learn that laughter about someone's death is the mark of a heathen. Such a selfish and stupid little child is she. And yes, evil.
Shallowness in the form of a US senator ignoring the monstrous crimes against his constituents by illegal aliens, but flying to El Salvador to try to bring a thuggish criminal back into the United States. To what purpose except to create mayhem and murder like his cretin-like compatriots.
Liberalism is just a dangerous ideology like its first cousin, Nazism, also known as National Socialism. The Nazis were also anti-Semites just like the American left. Just as the Nazis were Godless, so too is the American Left.
As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Some classical liberals included John Locke, Sir Isaac Newton, Francis Bacon and Thomas Jefferson. Liberalism used to be about maximum human rights and freedom; the expansion of the mind and inquiry; exploration, all hallmarks of the Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason. Hallmarks that included rejecting the divinity of men as a basis for governance, instead, government by popular majority.
It was an ideology for intellectualism and maybe for a gentler age. It was the main points of discussion when men met in Philadelphia 250 years ago to throw off the crown of divine rule and embrace the better angels of our nature to create an elegant and new form of self-governance.
That wonderful period some say comports with the Sunburst Theory of History—when so many great minds met—Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Madison, Washington, Jay, Hamilton and others---gathered twice, to declare independence from England and a second time to agree on self-governance.
But things have radically changed in 250 years. Liberalism is now anti-intellectualism. Even worse, the willful destruction of property is applauded by them; the burning of cars and car dealerships; the firebombing of political headquarters of the GOP; the imprisonment of little old ladies for simply praying in front of abortion mills. The murder of corporate executives; the defense of corrupt and wasteful government. Imprisoning parents who won’t let their children have devastating surgeries to alter their God given bodies, and stealing money from successful people and giving it to those who opt not to work, or come here illegally, all under the guise of “redistribution.”
And more. American liberalism offered nothing good for the American citizenry, only pain and suffering and ignorance. Just ask the parents of a young, white high school student, dead, who is not seeing justice because his assailant is black and the presiding judge is a black woman.
So it is that American conservatism represents the light, of intellectualism in the best tradition of the Age of Reason. While the American Left represents the dark, of anti-intellectualism in the worst traditions of the evils of humanity.
If I had my druthers, I’d be a prosecuting attorney charging the crime of liberalism, rather than trying to mount a rationale for indefensible liberalism.
Is American liberalism a crime?
Do you need to ask?
Ignorantia. Malum in se.
Historian and Reagan biographer Craig Shirley is the author of Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All; Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America; December 1941: 31 Days That Changed America and Saved the World; Last Act: The Final Years and Emerging Legacy of Ronald Reagan; Reagan Rising: The Decisive Years, 1976-1980; Citizen Newt: The Making of a Reagan Conservative; Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington's Mother; April 1945: The Hinge of History, as well as many articles and essays on politics and the conservative movement.
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