PoliticalChic
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c. Liberal democratic sovereignties, e.g., the United States
LIBERAL? OMG, say it ain't so!
Sit down before you have the vapors.....
"Liberal" as in classical liberal....not the modern, totalitarian version.
Here:
1. Unlike classical liberalism, which saw government as a necessary evil, of simply a benign but voluntary social contract for free men to enter into willingly, the belief that the entire society was one organic whole left no room for those who didnt want to behave, let alone evolve. Thus progressive reformers saw the home as the front line in the war to transform men into compliant social organs.
a. One answer was to get children out of the home as quickly as possible, so that the home could no longer be an island, separate and sovereign from the rest of society.
b. John Dewey helped create kindergartens to help shape children for the new society.
c. This can be seen in Woodrow Wilsons speech as president of Princeton: Our problem is not merely to help students to adjust to themselves to world life [but] to make them as unlike their fathers as we can. (Michael McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920, p. 111
2.Classical liberalism
a. The American intellectual class from the mid 19th century onward has disliked liberalism (which originally referred to individualism, private property, and limits on power) precisely because the liberal society has no overarching goal. http://fff.org/freedom/fd0203c.asp
Again?
Liberal as in classical liberal, today called conservatives... based on individualism, free markets, and limited constitutional government.
That hurt, didn't it.