Posted on 11/03/2024 4:07:10 AM PST by MtnClimber
The following is not intended to criticize anyone truly liberal or who keeps an open mind. It is aimed at those who pretend to be liberal but are in fact allies of the Left, which makes them Marxists. Quotation marks on the word “liberal” separate the meaning of the word from its contrary practice.
“Liberal” reporters used to be fond of pointing out that the death of John F. Kennedy marked the end of this nation’s “age of innocence.”
Those “liberal,” more astute and mature observers than all others were in fact obscuring the reality that progress toward excellence in the social, political, and cultural life of America was sliding downhill after that fateful event.
What they would not report, after JFK’s assassination, was the mounting evidence of intellectual and moral decline in America, the likes of which has no record in modern times.
Those not deep asleep in the last several decades have noticed minimum standards of education drop, enduring values crumble, Christianity mocked, the family wounded, and a taste and appetite for cheap entertainment blossom into a multi-billion-dollar entertainment industry.
So, did Americans simply “evolve” into a slumping mental and moral condition? Were the growing changes in culture “inevitable”? “Liberals” would say 'yes.'
But those who were awake knew that Americans were succumbing to a cultural blight being spread by activists of the Left whose leaders saw in the mushing of minds and morals a way to bring about a brave new Marxist world. [A hint here.]
Like their counterparts in the first quarter of the last century, today’s fake liberals feed on Marxist notions of justice, woefully behind the times they wish to change. Most of today’s “liberal” reformers are unaware of the campaign of their Marxist predecessors to make America a socialist nation...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I have pointed this out to a few leftists. When I told them they were not liberal and tolerant, just marxist communists they spit and sputtered and got all in a huff.
They aren’t leftists. They are Democrats. Liberals stay on issue. Democrats change with the narratives. Liberals will criticize the Democrats. Democrats will not. Liberals believe in free speech. Democrats sometimes do. Liberals are opposed to wars. Democrats support wars created by Democrats.
The problem is, there are fewer liberals today.
American conservatives are the inheritors of Jefferson's 18th century enlightenment liberalism.
Progressives come from a much darker place -- 19th century Marxist authoritarianism.
The progressive movement of the early 1900’s struck a blow against checks and balances in the Constitution by passing the 16th (income tax) and 17th (direct election of Senators) Amendments as well as creating the Federal Reserve.
Marxists were infiltrating American academia, the film industry, ad journalism as early as the 1920’s. The beginning of the decline of religion in America was observable as early as 1908 with the formation of the Federal Council of Churches which later became the far left National Council of Churches.
The Korean War (1950-1953), committing American citizen soldiers to death, without the formal Declaration of War required by the Constitution, was another blow to checks and balances in the Constitution, and resulted in many later undeclared wars including Vietnam. The 11 year Vietnam War was the catalyst for great social unrest in the nation which furthered the agenda of the left and accelerated the downhill spiral of the nation.
The breakdown of the budget process in Congress during the 1970’s and 1980’s greatly furthered the agenda of the left. The Democrat party, beginning with the Johnson Administration in the 1960’s, began using the public purse to by votes through massive social programs targeted to its constituencies as well as funnel millions to allied non profit social justice groups who overtly acted as agents for the Democrat party efforts to register voters and get them to the polls. Today these federally subsidized non profits are actively engaged in lawfare against their political opponents and against institutions (Boy Scouts, education, religion). Lawfare is a major contributor to the decline in public trust in the judicial system.
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