Special Ed gurgles again, blissfully unaware that Liberals are exactly who WROTE the Constitution. And that by the same token the Constitution is not only based on but a written expression of Liberalism.
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The radical liberal revisionist train whooshes past the station.
Our unique to the post-Enlightenment Era understanding, or definition of liberalism was based on Aristotle's own ancient belief in giving from oneself out of generosity and by free will--an apolitical philosophy existing outside of partisan politics; free thought, free will, individual rights. Liberalism 242 years ago was based on the virtue of
liberty not progressivism or atheism or revolutionary collectivism or social justice or identity politics or class warfare or racism or militant feminism. The current ideology of American Liberalism is the opposite of what you insinuate to have been our Founder's Liberalism.
Kinda. The virtue of 'liberty' were applied very selectively and intentionally by the Founders. Most of the population didn't enjoy this 'liberty'. Slaves, women and non-property owners for example generally had far fewer rights than white male property owners. Whom the founders all were.
The nation was formed within a very specific context: white male land owners of different states banding together for common defense from England; a very real, very immediate existential threat.
The system created catered to that context. It reinforced State Legislative power, which in turn reinforced the power of white, male landowners and slave holders. The concepts of 'liberty' embodied in say, the Declarations of Independance, were largely the promotion of some of the more marketable justifications for rebellion against England.
As things like Shay's rebellion demonstrate elegantly, the Founders didn't believe in put up with those rebelling against them. They crushed them. Both the justification that the Founders used for their rebellion and the application of 'liberty' in their own society were very situational, very selective, and of immediate benefit to the ruling class at the time of the nation's founding.
Poor deluded fellow USMB member. Here's the rub. The fly in the ointment (thanks John McClane). From myself to my father—all they way stretching back across our nation's scholastic tradition over a century to my great grandfather, whose wisdom I was fortunate enough to receive for the first ten years of my existence, all four generations of us learned
the same version of American History. And now, suddenly, along come individual's such as yourself who recite like scripture, a suddenly altered version.
Now I wonder why and how that happened?
The answer is: the radical American Left has revised American history to align with its political, social and cultural ideology of identity politics, victim groups and national shame, which the radical Left intends to wield for the purpose of replacing deep patriotism with guilt over fabricated atrocities inserted neatly into our nation's history, in hopes of making later, recent generations of Americans such as yourself utterly despise their great country, their country's flag, anthem and pledge and world image. You have been deceived, duped, misled on high by falsified political, cultural and social history. Fortunately, for the survival of our nation, some of us cannot be so easily blinded by the same postmodern ideological wool pulled over your eyes.
