Posted on 07/24/2015 8:11:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
Social liberalism is winning, and will continue to win, because we have a socialized and centrally-controlled monetary system.
People don’t see the connection, but money is the prose of society, and if we had a real currency and actual free-market interest rates, the US Government could NO WAY be $18 Trillion in debt. This control also used to steal middle class wages and savings through the tax of inflation and financial repression. The fact that that purchasing power of a dollar has decreased something like 98% since the creation of the Federal Reserve 100 years ago says it all. it accelerated in the 1960s with LBJ and went ballistic when Nixon finally found it necessary to sever any link to gold. To whom did that buying power go?
With that kind of power and funding, progressive government can then be everything to everybody and insinuate itself into every part of civil society. That money was spent on 1000 social engineering projects - from $500 million per year for planned parenthood, to an army of ACORN vote farmers, to HUD to Obamacare. Government, for now anyway, can use fake money to bail itself out, maintain the present system, and keep Americans from experiencing any disastrous consequences of the problems it has caused, as we saw in 2008. We can live consequence free with our big government, for now anyway.
Conservatives can’t win against that and few conservative politicians can resist it. Centralized Government, controlled by Progressives who believe in its mission, will continue to win, and conservatives will continue to be surprised and shocked.
Ben Franklin said: “When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.” And that’s exactly what is happening.
This is just BS to split conservatism into Balkan camps.
conservative is conservative. Social issues cost money. Money costs social issues. they can not be separated except in the eyes of delusional DC pundits, campaign managers, and fetish practicing obsessed politicians.
It isn’t that social liberalism is winning. The real problem imo is that parents have not been making sure that their children are being taught the Constitution in the first place, particularly the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers. All three branches of the corrupt federal government are consequently getting away with unconstitutonal interpretations of the Constitution.
The Supreme Court’s action in Obergefell is beyond their authority. Ignore it.
Well, that answers that!
the more they destroy the economy, the more dependent on big govt the people become.
they’ve also been pounding the drive out of boys since 1994. boys that otherwise would have grown to be the next generation of business owners.
by dumbing down the kids, they’re insuring a need for govt assistance.... furthering their goal (progress!) to achieve a communist ‘utopia’
Normally, Rush would be right. The political pendulum does swing back and forth.
However, changing demographic factors, both here and in Europe, coupled with more and more people on both sides of the Atlantic, dependent upon government, has transformed politics in the West.
Mass popular democracy inevitably leads to unlimited government and socialism.
Our Founding Fathers established a limited government constitutional republic. We no longer have this. But that is the type of government most hospitable to free market capitalism, individual liberty, and private property rights.
Since those legalizations have been done via referenda, I'm far less "sure" about this than the author. And why is this a "social issue" anyway? Selling is zoned and regulated, and I haven't heard that any significant amount of using is public - so who's being imposed upon?
You make me laugh/cry!
I do? How so?
I guess I’ll take it as a compliment.
“Is Social Liberalism Winning?”
What a stupid question. Read animal farm, again! We are living the last page right now.
It’s all past tense now.
They’re definitely in the catbird seat. Several generations of academia, the media, and the entertainment industry brainwashing young people has left much of the youthful segment of the company in thrall to socialist thinking. No sense trying to deny it. You even have many so-called young conservatives believing nothing’s wrong with homo marriage.
Compliment for sure. One of those Freeper lines that is so funny, yet so painfully true at the same time. First I laughed and then I felt the pain. You have skills.
deaths while driving stoned.
The people who before legalization didn't smoke pot because it was illegal, will after legalization not drive stoned because it's still illegal - ergo, no reason to expect a rise in stoned driving due to legalization.
it has happened per police.
We've murdered 50 million or so unborn children. Christian business owners are being shut down in deference to a demographic so vile and perverse that God has already destroyed them once. We're seeing our history erased in the name of appeasing a black culture that truly has nothing better to do.
Winning? Dude. They've won. They won long ago. Now we're just seeing the final signs of life in the corpse that used to be America.
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