It’s increasingly ridiculous to use the word “liberal” to describe the modern American collectivist. There’s nothing liberal about them at all. They’re shooting for the ultimate subversion of liberty, by re-defining “liberty” as a form of compulsion. In other words, they’re saying you are being oppressed unless a wise and virtuous dictatorial authority can force other people to give you what the authoritarians have decided you “deserve.” You aren’t “free” as long as you must provide for yourself. Liberty becomes a term used to describe its exact opposite: a set of active obligations placed upon other people. It’s right up there with any perversion of language and thought described by George Orwell in “1984.” Actually, it is one of the perversions he laid at Big Brother’s feet: “Freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength.”
h/t EBD
John Hayward is right. The collectivist ideology of Rousseau and Marx have infiltrated and taken over “liberalism” and the classical liberal only remains and exists in the libertarian conservative.
Great article.
This is a planned assault on the USA from many angles to finish off any semblance of America as a culture. The left have twisted words to their opposite meaning for years. From tolerance to inclusiveness they mean the reverse. Using welfare corporation,Unions, to welfare bums, with the use of these artificial cultures created to invert norms to sound similar to accepted values. Which are the complete reversal of the meaning.
As well on a social level Obama is importing Muslim’s & Mexicans with an invasion he invited for several reasons besides forcing Islam on the US. Notice how he has settled them in small towns around America. Concentrating on the Red States. This creates chaos since most of these places have no money or jobs for the huge increase of populations. It spreads Islam while destabilising communities. The people arriving invariably become not part of the community but enclaves of foreigners not willing to assimilate. This includes the divisive elements from the border invasion, calling for separation, or to join Mexico. This whole thing is about causing social cohesion of the USA to be stripped. Obama is killing the uniqueness of America, by forced immigration of whole regions of alien societies that have no parallel in cultural terms with the US or British tradition of common Law. Morals or values. Its being done to break up the entire social structure of a civilization.
As we seen in even the American army, Christianity is out, Islam in.
If you think this is new listen to this character from the 30s.
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=hewy+long+share+the+wealth&docid=608031820145951166&mid=31CFE4A0C45D18A2313931CFE4A0C45D18A23139&view=detail&FORM=VIRE1#view=detail&mid=31CFE4A0C45D18A2313931CFE4A0C45D18A23139
I don’t think this is new. The communists in the US have always called themselves liberal, because liberal sounds nice.
“It’s increasingly ridiculous to use the word “liberal” to describe the modern American collectivist.”
I’ve maintained this observation since I watched True-dough try to implement a soviet centralist model in this confederated nation – then turn rabid-vindictive with the west for refusing to go along.
“Liberal” is a misnomer that allows statist authoritarian kleptocrats to get away with (literally) plunder and murder. A new terminology is in order in referring to the agendas and pogroms which come out of this mis-named political cult. Needs to be something short catchy and true to their intent/nature – I had thought that maybe “illiberal or Librano or scatocrat” none of these resonate with the depth of malevolence which is inherent in this new “left” – particularly at the global central planning level and the organizational levels.
This is a networking, organized movement of sociopaths with the single-minded intent of complete control and submission to their agenda of centralizing wealth and power.
How do you sum that up in one small tag word?
Yes,
Those that they call liberals today, are none such.
Could be wrong, though it was Limbaugh that, without fail, calls those that are clearly socialists/fascists, liberals.
It seems as though Limbaugh can’t bring himself to admit that the United States of America is, today, governed by the same socialists/fascists.
Attack against women, paying for contraception, religious freedom of speech: these are all clouding the issue. If it’s not your money then you have nothing to say about how it is redistributed. Period. Positive rights, as advocated by the left, is theft: theft of property or theft of freedom of choice but it is all theft because it usurps one’s authority over one’s own life.
…This is a networking, organized movement of sociopaths with the single-minded intent of complete control and submission to their agenda of centralizing wealth and power.
How do you sum that up in one small tag word.?…
COMMUNIST … for that is exactly what they are.
I’m old enough to have been of working age when the “Father” of Canadian Communism was in power, Trudeau Senior. He had no quals about bringing in the military and martial law or hobbling the West with his National Energy Program. I see absolutely nothing different with his wanna be successor.
Same arrogance – same dictatorial mentality – same … COMMUNIST.
You are now free to do exactly as you are told.
Bravo, Occam. How about “statist totalitarian kleptocrats”?
What I have been saying (loudly) for years. There is nothing liberal in the modern “liberal” and nothing progressive in the “progressive”.
The fools who subscribe to the propaganda from these freedom hating bastards are weak minded sheep who will stampede us all into the pens if given the chance.
Neomarxist !
This piece of nanny state sophistry – that if someone else isn’t forced to pay for something you need or want, you are being “denied access” to it – is the carpet-bombing blanket “argument” at the root of every leftist/”liberal” campaign.
They’re really addressing their core constituency of urbanites, women, and non-working blacks. If an impoverished rural man in Montana lacked money to buy the ammunition he needs for hunting no one would call for funding on the grounds that he’s being denied access to food, whereas when Georgetown University wouldn’t pay for birth control for a privileged, jet-setting, would-be victim attending a university with a tuition of over $50,000/year, the lib/left media ran with her plaint that she was being denied access not just to birth control but to her right to reproductive health.
Speaking of Sandra Fluke (who is now running for a Senate seat in California), she wrote an article published in yesterday’s Washington Post titled “The Hobby Lobby case is an attack on women“.
The sub-header?
Umm, you can’t buy a box of 10 blood transfusions at your corner store for $12? You won’t die or get sick if you don’t have sex?
If it’s not your money then you have nothing to say about how it is redistributed. Period. …Posted by: johndoe124
Those who contribute the most have the most to say on how it’s distributed. That’s how it works in our society today.
“progressive” now means regressive
“liberal” now means fascist
What you said.
I refuse to use certain words to describe some people and “progressive” is one of them. There is nothing progressive about the divisive, deceptive and thieving nature of (post-modern) liberals. They would have the majority of the population either dead or under the thumb of a bloated government. Look no further than Cambodia or the former Soviet Union to see where the liberal/leftist ideology would take the West.
Progressive is a good descriptor.As progressive as rust.Or decay.
The Libtard wraps itself in the illusion of liberal freedoms while actively seeking to eliminate these freedoms.
north of LAS
“Those who contribute the most have the most to say on how it’s distributed. That’s how it works in our society today.”
those who contribute the most usually have about no say in how it’s distributed
Well said.
They certainly aren’t “progressive” or “liberal”; I suggest “criminal”.
Neomarxist
Neofascist.
Fixed it for you.
I wholeheartedly agree. Today’s “liberals” are about as liberal as the Waffen SS. I prefer to call the leftists or socialists.