Critics have often described Liberalism as a disease, A
disease can weaken the body, it might even kill, but a disease might be fought,
it might be defeated. But Liberalism is an acid, it destroys and disfigures everything
it touches, including Liberalism. Can an acid be defeated?
Is there a single institution, that has not been disfigured
by Liberalism?
Monarchy, Parliament, Democracy, Family, Marriage, Religion,
Law have any of them emerged unscathed from Liberalism?
Children, morals, education, trade, freedom of association,
labour relations, relations between the sexes, have any of these gone
unaffected by Liberalism?
The thing that makes Liberalism the most radical of all
Political Philosophies is it’s ability, and it’s desire, to destroy everything
it touches. To reduce everything to Liberalism, only Liberalism all the time.
Liberals will say that they are builders, not destroyers.
That they have built a better world. But how often will they admit the destruction
that they are responsible for? When they do admit it they claim that it was
necessary, what was destroyed was a bond, it made people slaves, it held them
back, it stopped people from achieving their true potential. To Liberals all of
these are good reasons to destroy something.
But Liberalism is not mindless, it does not destroy things
for fun, although it’s fellow travellers might. No, Liberalism has a vision of
the future, it has aimed it’s sights upon a better world, filled with better
people and for those who believe no amount of set backs, complaints or reality
is enough to end the dream. For every Liberal knows that the future is late.
You would think such an attitude would make Liberals
impatient, and sometimes they are. But overall Liberalism is amazingly patient,
the dream is inevitable, it will always come true. They truly believe that a
better world filled with better people is on it’s way.
And what would this world look like?
The perfect Liberal world differs between Liberals, after
all they are individuals. But it would look something like this. A Government
that looks after the needs of every single Individual. There would be no such
thing as family or even society. There would only exist Individuals and the
only reason the Government would exist is to provide what those Individuals
with the things they cannot provide for themselves. The world of the Autonomous
Individual.
There are some things that even Liberals seem confused by,
would business exist, would money, what about marriage? Would men and women
still exist? Would race? Religion? Some say yes all of these things would
exist, others say no non of these things would exist.
Now think of the world that you and I live in today and
think about the world that I have described, the world of the Autonomous
Individual. There is quite a difference between the two. Now think of all of
the things that Liberalism must destroy to create it’s vision. They must
destroy anything that binds people together, Nations, Family, Society, all must
be destroyed.
So how does Liberalism go about destroying these things?
By being an acid, by dissolving those things that bind us
together. Step by step they remove the things that stand in their way. For all
of Liberalisms faults it is very logical, the next step is normally easy to
identity. Let us use the family as an illustration. The first step was to say
that Kings and Priests were illegitimate, then they moved onto fathers.
Authority was the enemy they attacked here. Then they sort to remove Marriage
from the authority of the Church and move it from something Sacred to something
Secular. To remove God’s authority and replace him with man’s authority. That
included the power to grant divorces. Then they said that women needed to be
free of fathers, of their family and from their husband. First they attacked
the power of Kings and Priests, then of the church, then Fathers and then of
Husbands. They sort step, by step to remove any authority that they did not
have power over. This all happened before 1900.
They had a long break during which they suffered some
advances and even some defeats. Then they started again in the second half of
the 20th Century. They started by talking about sex, about sexual freedom,
about how people within marriage should be free to do as they desired with
their partner. But that was simply a smoke screen, what they wanted was for all
people to reject authority, including the authority of a persons spouse. What
they wanted was for people to become dissatisfied with what they had in life,
to desire, to lust after more, particular sex. They pushed pornography, they
pushed sexual freedom, they pushed the idea that cheating on your partner was a
personal issue not a legal one. They pushed for Adultery to be made legal,
after all it only affects two people they argued. They push for no-fault
divorce because it was only between people, it didn’t affect anyone else they
argued. This all happened by 1980.
But they like to put their fingers into as many pies as
possible, you never know which one will be the one with the idea to break
through. They supported homosexuality, it’s decriminalization, it’s relentless
push to be made legitimate, to be accepted. They did the same with the
transgender issue. They pushed for Feminism, which is logical as it is a branch
of Liberalism. All of which is an attack on the family. Liberals like to say
that this idea is wrong, but if it was truly wrong they would have stopped
pushing these ideas, but they never have.
Women should have careers, careers are compulsory, husbands
and children are optional. They pushed the idea that marriage was also
optional, love is not a document, you don’t need anyone else’s authority. No,
Liberalism says you are your own authority, you’re a rebel against all of world
history, against everything that has ever been. History is wrong, society is
wrong, everything is wrong, except the Individual.
At each step they use the acid of Liberalism to dissolves the
edges, to destroy the form that we all know. Soon it is misshaped and
discoloured, it is no longer as it was. They point to it and say “look at this
old tired thing, if it was worth saving it wouldn’t be so misshaped and
discoloured”. Never revealing or admitting that they are the ones who made it
look this way. No, they look to the victims of their brave new world and say they
wanted the world this way. We are only giving the people what they want. A want
that mysteriously they know but that the people don’t. Liberalism is an acid
and it destroys everything it touches.
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