What Liberalism Is Not
February 10, 2009
Most of us have wrongly concluded that Liberalism is nothing
more than a fundamentalist religion, a rigid set of beliefs its adherents
follow blindly in their ongoing attempts to eliminate other groups of
people who do not share their ideology. But while in one of its guises
liberalism is certainly a religion, it is much more than that. Like Islam,
it is a complete code of life, including social, legal, scientific, and
educational components no less stultifying and tyrannical than those of
Islam.
In areas where liberals make up a small percentage of
the population, generally under about ten percent, freedom of religion
and expression are not simply tolerated but encouraged. Because our country
is overwhelmingly Christian, and because the vast majority of Christians
acknowledge the right of other religions to exist, everyone has the right
to worship as he or she pleases and is free to express his or her opinions,
even those whose beliefs run contrary to Christian beliefs. Where the
liberal population is small, the phrase "will of the people"
is meaningful.
When liberals achieve a majority, as they have in the
current U.S. Congress and in many large states, they're able to push through
policies that advance their true aim: the undermining of capitalism and
the reduction to dependency on the state of as many people as possible.
The economies of liberal states such as California, New York, and Massachussetts,
and those of countries such as France and Germany tend to lapse into slow
but inevitable fiscal decline, as state creep saps their populations of
the ability, and eventually even the right, to engage in private enterprise.
Government economic activity gradually grows to account for, as it does
in Great Britain today, as much as three quarters of GDP, and such countries'
citizens are gradually reduced to the equivalent of functionaries in a
massive state bureaucracy that stifles individual creativity and initiative.
Where liberals are in the majority, their "norm"
leads them to argue that becoming a porn actress is acceptable because
it represents a woman's "taking control" of her own body, while
at the same time dictating that they savage truly extraordinary and accomplished
women such as Condoleezza Rice and Sarah Palin, making it clear that it
is not a woman's accomplishments but her acquiescence to liberal doctrine
that make her acceptable.
As their treatment of successful women attests, the social
component of liberalism, like that of its counterpart, Islam, functions
especially to deny the women who comprise some 50 percent of the sect's
adherents the freedom to pursue careers on equal footing with men, indeed,
in many cases to pursue careers at all, except within the constrained
boundaries of the liberal social and political code.
Where liberals are in the majority, education suffers.
The educational branch of liberalism has gained a fortress-like foothold
in America's colleges and universities and, through the National Education
Association (NEA) - which former President Bill Clinton's Education Secretary,
Rod Paige, once described as a "terrorist organization" - in
America's elementary and secondary schools.
The NEA pushes an agenda developed early under the direction of avowed
communist John Dewey, the "father of progressive education,"
which has led to numerous educational disasters. Nearly 50 percent of
students in the Chicago school system dropped out in the late 1970s and
early '80s when a methodology called "mastery learning" was
implemented in Chicago schools. The practice was renamed "outcome-based
education" and is continuing to be pushed by the NEA in America's
schools.
The NEA also promotes the look-say method of teaching
young children to read. This method, which was developed out of the work
of Russian behaviorist Ivan Pavlov, has led to illiteracy rates among
American schoolchildren approaching 20 percent nationally by some estimates.
In Chicago, a hotbed of liberal education practices, only about 17% of
eighth-graders can read at or above grade level.
Achieving majority status also enables liberals to further pack a nation's
court system with judges whose aim is, not to interpret law, but, as William
Z. Foster wrote in his chilling 1932 book, Toward Soviet America, to come
to "speedy" and "correct" decisions which reflected
the fact that they were handed down by "class-courts," promoting
a communist agenda and eschewing entirely any attempt at impartial justice.
Indeed, going against the will of the people, from Roe v. Wade to the
recent "legalization" of gay marriage and upholding the state's
right to seize private property arbitrarily, has become the signature
of a liberal court system.
When liberals achieve a majority, their rejection of God and their insistence
on advancing a "humanist" agenda leads to persecution of, especially,
Christians and Jews and denial of their rights to worship as they please,
even as the rights of certain minority religions to require public policy
change are upheld.
When their majority reaches 75 percent or greater, as
it has on many of America's increasingly madrassa-like college and university
campuses and in many college towns, such as Berkeley, California, and
Madison, Wisconsin, liberals eliminate the right of free expression. "Right
thinking" is inculcated through a professorship that too often demands
its students conform to liberal doctrine, and to go against such doctrine
is grounds for persecution, punishment, or expulsion.
Among the areas that suffer most in these cases is scientific
inquiry. Rather than encourage dispassionate debate, liberals in the majority
demagogue scientifically inaccurate positions, and the laws and policy
that result can be devastating. In the mid-1990s, for example, legislation
to protect the Spotted Owl from the logging industry was passed. Later,
as Spotted Owl populations continued to decline despite a virtual cessation
of logging, it was revealed that the protected species' real enemy was
the Barred Owl, an aggressive bird that was simply driving the Spotted
Owl out of its habitat. That the Barred Owl was the true culprit was known
when the legislation was passed, but liberals couldn't resist the opportunity
to cause more than 125,000 people to lose their lumber-industry livelihoods
to protect "endangered" birds.
Finally, although we know the history of countries which
have come, by force, completely under liberal domination, it's worth reviewing
briefly. Where left-liberals have no opposition, they no longer need to
resort to quasi-legitimate means, such as legislation and court decree,
to further their agenda. In such cases, the result is often mass murder,
as in regimes such as that of Josef Stalin in Russia, Mao Tse Tung in
China, and Pol Pot in Cambodia. Unbridled liberalism, in the form of Communism,
has been responsible for the deaths of more than 100 million people over
the past century alone.
Where liberalism holds complete sway, Christians and Jews
especially are mercilessly persecuted, their houses of worship destroyed,
their religious leaders imprisoned or killed. And it was in Soviet Russia
during the 1920s that the liberal method of bending science to the service
of ideology was first practiced. T. D. Lysenko's mistaken theory that
genetics had little if anything to do with how plants needed to be cultivated
led to the Communist government's issuing decrees that dictated what and
when farmers would plant. The resulting famine killed as many as ten million
Russian citizens and, when it was applied in Communist China in Mao Tse
Tung's "Great Leap Forward" during the 1960s, another 30 million.
The global warming hysteria that willfully ignorant liberals such as Al
Gore are promoting could have similarly disastrous results if not challenged
vigorously.
Where they gain influence, liberals behave as religious
fundamentalists everywhere behave: with prejudice based on willful ignorance.
While they describe their "heroes," including Barack Obama,
breathlessly in terms usually reserved for messiahs or protagonists in
romance novels, they at the same time spew rhetoric of hatred characterized
by such bilious intolerance as to challenge credulity against anyone who
dares to differ with their ideological stances.
But their behavior goes far beyond religious fundamentalism
to the point where it becomes a complete "life system" with
its own social, legal, scientific, and educational components, all of
which must be in compliance with the most wrongheaded and destructive
religious belief system ever foisted on the citizens of this planet, and
all of which must be fought unceasingly lest liberalism become the law
of the land to the permanent detriment of the people of the United States.
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