I know, shocking isn't it? For years, we have been calling Democrats liberals, when they are really not liberals at all. What they are is socialists who have appropriated the term liberal for the sake of making themselves look better. They are the proverbial wolf in sheep's clothing.
America was founded under the political philosophy of liberalism. What word looks very similar to this? If you are thinking 'liberty', well then you are quite correct. The whole basis of liberalism is that man is free to do as he pleases with the life that he is given, save that he respect the law, as long as it does not infringe upon his freedom. F.A. Hayek, an economist whose work has become a basis for libertarian thinking, says it best. He says that the fundamental principle, the root of liberalism, is that "in the ordering of our affairs we should make as much use as possible of the spontaneous forces of society, and resort as little as possible to coercion..." In other words, in our lives, we do what works best, and see where it takes us, and if it doesn't work, we try something else. This is freedom. When we are forced by the powers that be to do what they think is best, then there ceases to be any freedom whatsoever, and the government must resort to coercion in order to get their plan into action. Freedom is not in the Democrats plans at all. They want everybody to do things their way, and they will go about doing this by whatever means possible. But in reality, the only way that they can do that is to destroy the Constitution, bring about one party rule and eventually move to authoritarianism, which will eventually lead to totalitarianism (Hitler's Germany is an example of a totalitarian regime).
Democrats want their plan, and only their plan. They are unwilling to compromise on anything. This all comes from a set of misguided ideals that come straight from the pages of all the socialist writings of the past. Lets look at an example; health care. In the United States today, we have many health care providers, such as Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Kaiser Peramanente, etc, etc. These are all private companies that through their service, make profit. Now, most people will get health care provided for them through their place of employment at a reduced cost that is deducted out of their pay check. Others have to get it by purchasing it themselves, which is more expensive, but still better than having none at all. The Democrats do not like this, and have said as much. They would rather have a national, socialized health care system where people don't have to pay for it, but it is a right that they have. There is no competition, and no incentive to good health care. And it is all placed under one head, so there will be more bureaucracy for people to have to go through just so they can see the doctor or have a procedure done. If the plan isn't adequate, one can't just drop one provider and get another, because the government will have done away with all other providers, and its one or none. And this doesn't even begin to describe the problems that will develop. Just look at Great Britain and other countries with nationalized health care, and you will begin to see the problems that America would face if they instituted it.
Democrats do not want freedom of enterprise, which is one of the basic tenets of true liberalism. This is something that the Founding Fathers fought for; our Founders who were true liberals. England wanted them to trade with England and only England, even if one could have gotten a better deal on say, tobacco, if they shipped it to France. England controlled the market and no freedom was allowed when it came to trade. The colonists got fed up with this and they revolted and created a system that allowed them to trade with whomever they wanted (though it did take awhile for that to come to fruition, it did happen). Democrats have a plan for everything, and what they say is apparently for the good of all. Or so they say.
What we must realize is that what is good for one person is not good for everyone. A basic truth of true liberalism is that we are free to make our own path for our lives, and nobody but us can tell us that we can or can't do it, unless of course, it goes against the law or is in some way harmful to others or restricts their freedom. Democrats do not want this. They are increasingly telling us more and more that we can't do this, or we can't do that. We can't smoke in public anymore, and there are some are trying to pass laws that say you can't smoke in your home either. They are telling us what kind of cars we must drive, and that we are killing our environment when we drive cars that run on gas. There are a plethora of things they are telling us we can and cannot do, and that is not what liberalism is about. That is socialism, my friends, and if we allow the Democrats to take us down that road, it is a slippery slope that we will not be able to easily climb back up.
To close this rather lengthy passage, we must resist. We must know what we must truly stand for, and, as crazy as that sounds, it is liberalism. It is the one and only true liberalism that this country was founded upon, and not the so called liberalism of the socialist left. I will recommend one thing to you. If you have the time, go and pick up three books. First, read John Locke's Second Treatise on Government. Then go and pick up John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. And finally, pick up F.A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom. These three books will show you what true liberalism is, what government is supposed to do for society and how it is to go about it, and finally the dangers of socialism. I know they get dry, but they are important, and you will be glad you did, because then you can refute any socialist Democrat who tries to tell you you are wrong. Good luck, and good reading!
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