Posted on 07/18/2014 8:10:48 AM PDT by cotton1706
Liberals just aren't very liberal these days. The word "liberal" comes from the Latin word meaning freedom, and in the 19th century, liberals in this country and abroad stood for free speech, free exercise of religion, free markets, free trade -- for minimal state interference in people's lives.
In the 20th-century, New Dealers revised this definition by arguing that people had a right not only to free speech and freedom of religion but also, as Franklin Roosevelt said in his 1941 Four Freedoms speech, freedom from fear and from want.
Freedom from want meant, for Roosevelt, government provision of jobs, housing, health care and food. And so government would have to be much larger, more expensive and more intrusive than ever before.
That's what liberalism has come to mean in America (in Europe it still has the old meaning), and much of the Obama Democrats' agenda are logical outgrowths -- Obamacare, the vast expansion of food stamps, attempted assistance to underwater homeowners.
But in some respects the Obama Democrats want to go further -- and are complaining that they're having a hard time getting there. Their form of liberalism is in danger of standing for something like the very opposite of freedom, for government coercion of those who refuse to behave the way they'd like.
Example one is the constitutional amendment, sponsored by 43 of the 55 Democratic U.S. senators, which would cut back on the First Amendment and authorize Congress and state legislatures to restrict political speech.
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"If termites could speak, they would call what they do 'progressive'".
Progressive means more and more. More control, more power, more spending, more taxes. I have more respect for communists who announce their end goal right up front. Progressives are too cowardly or dishonest, or too smart, for that. This is what makes them a lot more dangerous. One more little step seems so harmless and quite reasonable to so many people.
This is the new meaning, and it will only become more so with time.
We need to control our State and local education systems. We must insure Standardized and mandatory testing on the concepts of liberty!
Freedom is at the edge of extension in this country, it is imperative that we raise our children and every other child to know exact what it is to respect the NATURAL(As in from Nature NOT State) rights of their countrymen.
To do this we must insert theses topics into standardized testing and mandate passing. You put it into testing and teachers will have to teach it.
Our children must be taught to think critically about the consequences of voting bread from their neighbors mouth and allowing a state to place such demands in support of such services upon a population.
If our public school systems have but one function this is the only one that is justifying of their experience to all childless population.
Remember teachers today teach for tests, so we must test for their knowledge of the theory of liberty.
There must be questions such as this one the test:
“If a people votes successfully to have the government provide a service which costs x amount for every man, woman, and child in the population where will that money come from.”
If that child answers anything other than the people, they failed the civics portion, and should not be allowed to graduate.
Democrats control our schools and as such they ARE teaching our children to missbehave as they do with NO respect for anyone else’s rights!
We must focus our attention on securing control of schools and mandating Testing for the virtues of Republican liberty.
Students who can’t answer questions about how the Government gets every dollar it spends upon them(or anything else for that matter) should fail the test and be forced to retake it.
If you test for it teachers will teach it. There is no matter more indispensably in the public interest of education than the education of respect for the civil liberty of one’s countrymen. Otherwise those children will grow up to be like modern democrats with no honest respect for anyone elses rights.
Progressives are a very vile bunch. Hitler or Stalin had nothing on what the Progressives of today are capable of if allowed to have their way.
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