This is an overview of the failure of Liberalism in the world today! How is it that so many do not see what is happening, maybe because they are getting rewarded {paid} for nor doing something from others who actually work!

Date:   7/21/2011 4:12:07 PM ( 13 y ago)

Liberal policies cause harm to the society

Based upon a post by Columnist: Dennis Prager;  who presented this historical over view…

  Here we can see the truth played out which has contributed to the present state of affairs for the United States and many countries in the Western World!

****   Liberal policies harm society!

“ liberals are certain about the moral  superiority of liberal policies, the truth is that those policies actually diminish a society’s moral character.
Many individual liberals are fine people, but the policies they advocate tend to make a people worse off.”

Here are 10 reasons:

1. The bigger the government, the less the citizens do for one another.

It becomes a " if the state will take care of me and my neighbors, why should I do anything"  scenario!

This is why most Western Europeans, people who have lived in welfare states far longer than Americans have, actually give less to charity and volunteer less time to
others than do Americans of the same socioeconomic status.

The greatest description of American civilization was written in the early 19th century
by the Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville. One of the differences distinguishing Americans from Europeans that he most marveled at was how much Americans – through myriad
associations – took care of one another.

That was until President Franklin Roosevelt began the seemingly inexorable movement of America
toward the European style welfare state -  which was vastly expanded later by other Democratic presidents -

Up until the past fifty years;  Americans took responsibility for one another and for themselves far more than they do today.  Churches, Rotary Clubs, free-loan societies and other voluntary associations were ubiquitous.  The Christian idea tho love your neighbor was paramount through out the nation...   However as the state {Natl Government} grew,  all these associations declined.  Where in Western Europe, they have virtually all disappeared.

2. The welfare state, though often well intended, is nevertheless a Ponzi scheme.

Conservatives have known this for generations. But now, every honest person should acknowledge it; because this is the true situation.

The welfare state is predicated on collecting money from those who have earning from their labor or endivors...  Therefore today’s workers must attempt  to pay for those who  had paid in before them.   The truth is that today’s workers don’t have enough money to sustain the scheme, because there are too few of them to do so.   This is the same result, for virtually every welfare state in Europe, plus many of the American states, like California, which is going broke.  DUH!

3. Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic.

This is the greater preoccupation of vast numbers of Brits, Frenchmen, Germans and other Western Europeans are how much vacation time they will have and
how early they can retire and be supported by the state.

4. The liberal welfare state makes people disdain work.

Americans work considerably harder than Western Europeans, and contrary to liberal thought since Karl Marx, work actually builds character.

5. Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing.

In the liberal welfare state, one develops an entitlement mentality – another expression of narcissism.    The rhetoric of liberalism - labeling each new entitlement  as a “right” – reinforces this sense of entitlement!

The question should be where does it end? Because this system can not continue forever, it is self defeating and financially flawed!

6. The bigger the government, the more the corruption.

As the famous true-ism goes,

” Power tends  to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Of course, big businesses are also often corrupt. But they are eventually get caught or go out of business.
Where as  the government cannot go out of business.  So unlike corrupt governments, corrupt businesses cannot print money and thereby devalue a nation’s currency, and they cannot arrest you; because they do not have to power of the Bayonet!

7. The welfare state corrupts family life.

Even many Democrats have acknowledged the destructive consequences of the welfare state on the underclass.
It has rendered vast numbers of males unnecessary into females, who have now looked to the state to support them and their children (with the more children, the more state support which is stupid and beyond  moral or finical consideration)!   Therefore rather than to having the husbands (fathers),  the effect is, these women have taken the state as their husband; to provide for and protect them.

8. The welfare state inhibits the maturation of its young citizens into responsible adults.

As regards men specifically, I was raised, as were all generations of American men before me, to aspire to work hard in order to marry and support a wife and children.
No more.

One of the reasons many single women lament the prevalence of boy-men social element  =  men who have not grown up -  which is what the liberal state has told men that they don’t have to support anybody but them selves.
They are free to remain boys for as long as they want.  Another reason that there is so much time spent in sports actives, to keep the boy – men entertained!  This has also led to more of a drug dependent, entertainment orientated society!

Yet here is an example that regards both sexes.   The loudest and most sustained applause ever heard recently was that of college students responding to a speech by President Barack Obama;  informing them that they would now be covered by their parents’ health insurance policies until age 26.  WOW!  What are they going to do when they are seniors and their children come to them expecting continual support?

9. As a result of the left’s sympathetic views of pacifism no welfare state can afford a strong military . 

  European countries now rely on America to fight the world’s evils and even to defend them.

10. The leftist Weltanschauung  {: a comprehensive conception or apprehension of the world especially from a specific standpoint}  sees society’s and the world’s great battle as between rich and poor rather than between good and evil. 

   Equality therefore trumps morality.   This is what produces the morally confused liberal elites that can venerate a Cuban tyranny with its egalitarian society over a free and decent America that has greater inequality.

None of this matters to progressives.   Against all this destructiveness, they will respond not with arguments to refute these consequences of the liberal welfare state, but by citing the terms “social justice” and “compassion,” or by labeling their opponents “selfish” and worse even greedy.

" If you want to just feel good, liberalism is awesome.

But if you want to really do good, liberalism is largely an awful failure!"

***  This liberal view is invalid and will crush the free thinking progressive individual society upon which the United States was built!  Because you {the government} can’t be all things to all people at all times!  It is an impossible situation which presents an unrealistic sustainable way of life!!   DUH!

Popularity:   message viewed 33512 times
URL:   http://www.curezone.org/blogs/fm.asp?i=1837576

<< Return to the standard message view