[MonroeDNA]

Dropping the guardrails of society certainly IS a result of socialist liberalism.

In Dicken's world, the guardrails were not there. Nobody wants to go back to that.

Today, now that the guardrails are gone, our society is drifting backwards, to there. Hence the article.

[A. Pole]

Dropping the guardrails of society certainly IS a result of socialist liberalism. In Dicken's world, the guardrails were not there. Nobody wants to go back to that.

But "guardrails of society" were in the much earlier times. Tribes for example are close knit societies. When those "guardrails of society" were gone BEFORE Dickens? Was it when Henry VIII confiscated(privatised) the estates of the Church which were used earlier to protect the poor? Or when the common lands/forests were privatized?