They are pseudo-liberals and pseudo-intellectuals. They pretend they care about freeing the oppressed and defending the defenseless, but relentlessly oppose any act of liberation or rescue. They pretend to know something, but repeatedly demonstrate an ignorance of math, history and human nature.
Brian Micklethwait writes of the fakes who have given liberalism a bad name. He calls them “statists,” blind believers in the virtue and power of the state.
Because, the word “progressive” is just as wrong as the word “liberal”. The statists who argue for the destruction of the dollar and for bank bail-outs (again) and for nationalised derangement of medical care and for green-inspired economic sabotage aren’t “liberals”. They do not believe in liberty; they believe in curtailing liberty. But neither do they believe in anything which it makes sense to anybody except them to call “progress”. Progress is the exact thing these statists are now trying and have always tried to destroy, and just lately have been doing a pretty damn good job of destroying. Progress means things getting better. These self styled “progressives” are only making things worse.
Useless pretenders. There is no liberalism without liberty, no peace without freedom. If we are to live in a fully democratic world of peace and progress, the people who dismiss individual freedom and private initiative as overrated nuisances will have to get out of the way.
If we want liberalism to stand again for the little guy, we have to start using real intelligence to shape a society that regulates sparingly and wisely while unleashing the protective, creative and healing powers of freedom.
Frank Warner
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