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To: annalex
I don’t think attributing it to some generalized “do-goodism” answers it.

Modern-day liberalism is rooted in guilt. Modern-day liberalism isn't even possible without prosperity, which automatically triggers feeling of guilt in the better-off for the less fortunate. Marxism, on the other hand, is based at the other end of this relationship - it's rooted in the envy and anger of the have-nots and the conviction that those who are doing better are doing so unfairly, and at the expense of the have-nots.

That's why Marxist nations have never had a problem telling immigrants to get lost. The guiding philosophy is that they themselves are not doing well, that they are owed by mysterious "others" who have schemed to deprive them, and they're certainly not going to share what they have with newcomers. Liberals, on the other hand, are plagued constantly by concerns that their wealth comes at the expense of others - the less well-to-do of their own nations, the people of less wealthy nations, the planet itself (which is envisioned as a living organism being taken advantage of by the wealthy). That's the essence of the do-goodism that allows economic migrants to move in and receive benefits. The East Germany that Angela Merkel grew up in would never have accepted these people. The unified Germany that Angela Merkel now leads is far wealthier, and liberal guilt leads naturally to the conclusion that these people are owed by the citizens of her nation.
40 posted on 10/03/2015 2:33:46 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
The guiding philosophy is that they themselves are not doing well [...] Liberals, on the other hand, are plagued constantly by concerns that their wealth comes at the expense of others

Yes, that is true. This is why American liberalism never really got in bed with Marxism, a few traitors notwithstanding. That explains the motivation. That does not explain the policy. Indeed, Western governments are not driven by barbra-streisand airheads; these are well educated, capable of logical thought, with access to every technological resource people. If not themselves, then their advisers would tell them that putting hundreds of thousands of people without skills or property, that belong to different and hostile religion and culture, would disproportionately hurt not the ruling class but the indigenous working class. Why do they do it to their own, -- German, Dutch, British poor?

Further, there is no need to be all that liberal politically to be compassionate to the refugees. Christian leaders, including conservative ones, call for charity too -- it is their job. At issue here is not humanitarianism but a destructive policy aimed at the national working class.

I still think that at work here is an active desire to destroy the Western civilization. It is not just do-goodism. The natural sentiments of compassion, that resonate especially well with the liberals, but are not unique to them, are how the enemy of our civilization sells these policies to the masses in the developed countries. The natural sentiments of envy and desire for equality and justice is how the enemy of the Western civilization sold Marxism to the masses a century ago. The sentiments differ, the end result is the same: erasure of national identities, destruction or rational economy, submission of religion to the state, formation of dictatorial ruling class.

41 posted on 10/03/2015 12:23:42 PM PDT by annalex (fear them not)
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