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Elaborate..this country was founded on both ideas having one w/o the other will not work
Depends on what you mean by liberalism. Liberalism today does not let you have a democracy, unless you are a terrorist, a criminal, tax cheat, illegal immigrant, etc...
If you fall into one of those categories, then you have rights. If not, then you are un-american.
Don't confuse liberalism--the founding ideal of the country--with what passes for liberalism today. The original liberals--Locke, Hobbs, Montesquieu, Rousseau--would have nothing to do with the "liberals" of today. The Founding Fathers were steeped in the ideas of Locke and co. At bottom liberalism represented the impulse of the indvidual for liberty and pitted that individual against the state--as represented by the crown. Recognizing the need for government the Founders nevertheless sought to maximize indvidual liberty by circumscribing the power of the state. Thus the federal system and separation of powers and the Bill of Rights. Today's liberals, by contrast, seek to enhance the power of the state over the individual through taxation and regulation. In the guise of helping people government amasses more and more power, turning us into wards of the state itself. In effect the liberalism of today is a form of soft tyranny. A good analogy is the soft tyranny of the parent. At some point a person has to choose between chaffing at the soft tyranny of the parental abode and the freedom that is his or her birthright as an adult. People, it's past time to be adults.
Everythng you've provided is just a convenient excuse to welcome more government intervention. It is an insult to folks like Locke to even believe for a second they would ever condone theft through onerous levels of taxation.
Elaborate..this country was founded on both ideas having one w/o the other will not work
You are absolutely correct, we need to incorporate all interests within reason. The issue here IMHO is not about true liberalism, it's about true radicalism. I personally support many liberal ideas, just not radical ways to carry them out.
Everythng you've provided is just a convenient excuse to welcome more government intervention. It is an insult to folks like Locke to even believe for a second they would ever condone theft through onerous levels of taxation.
You're quite comical. Obviously you know nothing of Lockean Philosophy or for that matter that historical forces influencing the Englishman. I suggest you actually read, Two Treatises of Government, before you so idiotically claim to be an authority on Liberalism or for that matter Political Theory
Elaborate..this country was founded on both ideas having one w/o the other will not work
We are not a democracy. We are a Representative Republic. "Liberalism" in the modern sense of the term, is anathama to a Representative Republic. To survive, you must not allow liberalism a foothold. That is the source of our problems today. We have forgotten our roots.
Thats kida like saying you cant have affirmative action without racism...
You got one right!
Although I doubt that you know why.
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