What our founding fathers established in the late 18th century was considered very liberal — giving people freedom to determine and pursue their own goals, uninhibited and unaided by the government.

From their own experience, they knew that the more the people demanded from government, the more the government would have to control the people.  They learned from monarchies  and feudal systems that kept people in poverty in order to make those people rely on the pittance that the kingdom supplied just to keep them alive and working for the monarchy.

The so-called “liberal” ideas our founding fathers proposed — ideas like unrestricted free trade, small government, and political and economic freedom for its citizens — are the foundation on which the U.S. was created.  Those ideas are the very reasons the U.S. has gone from fledgling country to dominant world power in 200 short years.

Those ideas are the reason many consider the U.S. to be the best damn country in the world.

But with freedom comes risk.  In a free society, you are in the driver’s seat of your life.  You create your own circumstances, and whether that’s rags or riches, you are ultimately responsible for yourself.  No one else is.

Contrast that with a communist or socialist state like the former USSR, or China or Cuba.  In a socialist state:

• You are guaranteed a job (although you have no say in what that job is)
• You are guaranteed a paycheck (although government takes 75% automatically for taxes)
• You are guaranteed food to eat (although it’s never fresh and may be rationed at any time)
• You are guaranteed a roof over your head (although you’ll be sharing it with 6 other families)

Socialism allows you to “outsource responsibility” in your life to the government.

Sounds nice, until you consider the consequences.  Yes, you will be able to eat and provide a roof over your head, but you will never have a chance to progress in life because Uncle Sam will take away nearly everything you earn to pay for the next guy’s medical/housing/retirement.  You will be at the mercy of the government, who may or may not be interested in you in your time of need.  You will have no control over your own life.

This leads to the paradox of modern-day liberal philosophy.  Liberals claim to seek freedom from government controls over social issues in their lives:

• Less interference in our personal lives — “Don’t tread on me!”
• Less restrictions on abortion — “We want the right to choose [life or death for our unborn children]“
• Less restrictions on marriage — “We want gay marriage”
• Less restrictions on drugs — “We want marijuana legalized”

At the same time, they are asking the same government that imposes “shackles” on their personal lives to provide them with unlimited services:

• More control of the medical system — “We want free health care”
• More control over jobs and wages — “We want a high minimum wage and salary caps for the rich”
• More control over retirement — “We want Social Security”
• More control over landlords and housing — “We want rent control”
• More social safety nets — “We want welfare for the poor”
• More control over education — “We want better public education”
• More control over the environment — “We want a green society”

How can the same group of people that so distrusts our government ask that same government to provide cradle-to-grave care?

Don’t they know the consequences of asking for everything from the government?  Have they studied history?  Have they considered other countries that have gone down this dangerous path?  The party that seeks these programs needs — requires — people to be in poverty in order to control them!

When I was 16, I got my first car and demanded my freedom from my parents.  I argued against a curfew and scoffed when my folks told me who I could or could not hang out with.  But out of the same breath, I expected for them to feed me and provide a place to live rent-free.  I fully expected them to pay my bills while I ran around being a carefree teenager.

These days I laugh about how immature I was back then.  But it’s not so funny when 50% of our country — grown men and women — behave the same way toward the government!

True liberalism is freedom from the shackles of a “nanny-state” government that controls who can progress to wealth or who can start/run a business or travel freely through the country. As stated before, our founding fathers were very liberal in their time.  But oh, how the world has changed…

The modern Democratic party has hijacked the liberalism of our government and taken it to an extreme where current social trends and collectivist views define the party platform.  They’re fighting in the name of “the common good” to enact the same socialist policies our founding fathers worked so hard to prevent.

Serious academic debate about the economics of socialism ended nearly 100 years ago.  How many times are we going to try to make socialism work before we realize it can’t?

You can’t have your cake and eat it too.  Either you want more government (regulation, interference, control) or less government (freedom, privatization, risk).

Make up your minds, people.  There is no in-between.

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