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- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Who are the Modern Liberals?
- Chapter 2: Beliefs of Modern Liberals
- Chapter 5: Modern Liberals and Marxism
- Chapter 6: Do Modern Liberals Really Hate America?
- Chapter 7: Tactics and Propaganda of Modern Liberals
- Chapter 8: Who are the Conservatives?
- Chapter 9: Beliefs of Conservatives
- Chapter 11: America and Europe
- Chapter 12: Ronald Reagan
- Chapter 13: Taking America Back
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- Videos: Modern Liberals in Society
- Videos: To Our Nation and those Who Protect Us
- Videos: The Truth about Economics. No Modern Liberal Lies and Distortions
- Videos: Ronald Reagan at His Best
- Videos: Keeping a Sense of Humor
Excerpts from Chapter 1: Who are the Modern Liberals?
Modern Liberals insist that the centralization of power is necessary to ensure human equality, but their notion of equality is a forced equality, more accurately described as radical egalitarianism. In a society where people are free—are truly free and equal in the eyes of the law and God—they will reap the rewards and losses of their actions and efforts, and not everyone will wind up in an “equal” condition: Differences in ability, effort, determination, morals, and backgrounds will result in different outcomes. Modern Liberals refuse to tolerate this and advocate for more and more forced equality by a central power—the federal government. Their agenda tends to focus on our economic lives, but it also filters into work, education, local communities, and family.
A secondary unifying characteristic of Modern Liberalism is the belief that human reason has an unlimited capacity to comprehend, evaluate, and arrange an ideal society. This leads to the premise that “experts” can discover and formulate ways to create a utopia and that they should advise and guide the central power. The contrasting view—the one espoused by our Founding Fathers—is that reason is limited and moral guidance is essential. The American predecessors of Modern Liberals—the Progressives of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, followed by the Old Left of the 1930s through the 1950s, and then the New Left—strove to change humans and to create a perfect society. In contrast, the founding tradition accepts human nature, adheres to limited government, and is comfortable with what is truly attainable. This is why the founding tradition emphasizes the restriction of government rather than the Modern Liberals’ expansion of it. The eventual “end state” of Modern Liberalism is Communism. The founding tradition emphasizes the free market and individual choices, so there can be no ideal “end state.” With the founding tradition, we have already arrived.
True liberty results in inequality of outcome, and this is unacceptable to Modern Liberals. For them, outcomes must be as much the same as possible. They will never acknowledge that this necessitates coercion and thus destroys liberty. On the contrary, they are convinced that any beliefs or institutions that hint at superiority or have authorities in the family, church, and teacher-student relationships stand in the way of achieving true equality by the mere fact that they adhere to a hierarchy. In addition, they fear that these institutions may inculcate ideas that run counter to Modern Liberal ideology. For example, a person’s church may emphasize the supremacy of private charity over government welfare, or parents may extol the successful entrepreneur in the free market. Modern Liberals subsequently conclude that it is imperative to weaken, undermine, and even eliminate traditions and institutions in our culture in order to promote their concept of equality.
A secondary unifying characteristic of Modern Liberalism is the belief that human reason has an unlimited capacity to comprehend, evaluate, and arrange an ideal society. This leads to the premise that “experts” can discover and formulate ways to create a utopia and that they should advise and guide the central power. The contrasting view—the one espoused by our Founding Fathers—is that reason is limited and moral guidance is essential. The American predecessors of Modern Liberals—the Progressives of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, followed by the Old Left of the 1930s through the 1950s, and then the New Left—strove to change humans and to create a perfect society. In contrast, the founding tradition accepts human nature, adheres to limited government, and is comfortable with what is truly attainable. This is why the founding tradition emphasizes the restriction of government rather than the Modern Liberals’ expansion of it. The eventual “end state” of Modern Liberalism is Communism. The founding tradition emphasizes the free market and individual choices, so there can be no ideal “end state.” With the founding tradition, we have already arrived.
True liberty results in inequality of outcome, and this is unacceptable to Modern Liberals. For them, outcomes must be as much the same as possible. They will never acknowledge that this necessitates coercion and thus destroys liberty. On the contrary, they are convinced that any beliefs or institutions that hint at superiority or have authorities in the family, church, and teacher-student relationships stand in the way of achieving true equality by the mere fact that they adhere to a hierarchy. In addition, they fear that these institutions may inculcate ideas that run counter to Modern Liberal ideology. For example, a person’s church may emphasize the supremacy of private charity over government welfare, or parents may extol the successful entrepreneur in the free market. Modern Liberals subsequently conclude that it is imperative to weaken, undermine, and even eliminate traditions and institutions in our culture in order to promote their concept of equality.
