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Liberal principles have brought us to a dead end


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2019 Mar 6, 7:50am   600 views  3 comments

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https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/01/conservative-democracy

The present moment is one of growing discomfort, both in America and in Europe, with the regnant liberal political theory often described as liberal democracy. It is frequently said that the only genuine alternatives to liberal democracy are Marxism and Fascism, but I don’t believe this is true. I want to sketch an alternative viewpoint that I will call conservative democracy. This ­position is closer to the spirit of traditional constitutionalism in both America and Britain than the liberal political theories of our day. Moreover, it is far better equipped to maintain the free institutions of these nations than liberalism. ...

The present revival of nationalist sentiment in Britain and America seeks, in one way or another, to resist this trajectory. Perhaps 70 percent of President Trump’s votes came from Evangelical Christians and conservative Catholics, and a similar pattern of support for the parallel “Brexit” movement seeking independence from the European Union can be observed in the U.K. I know that some conservative intellectuals are inclined to see Brexit and the Trump movement as signs of the disease at least as much as harbingers of a coming recovery. Nonetheless, I think it is undeniable that a vast Christian public in these countries (as well as the great majority of Orthodox Jews) recognizes in the current nationalism an attempt to avert the complete collapse of the traditional Western order. What we see before us, then, is a contest between two powerful movements—a “liberal” movement that has been dominant for some time, and a nationalist movement that openly seeks to resist it. In public discourse today, the existence of these two camps is seen clearly. But what they each stand for is not so clear. I will try to bring what is at issue between these rival camps into greater focus. ...

But liberal principles provide no resources for maintaining institutions such as the national state, the family, and Christian or Jewish religion. Having displaced the older biblical worldview that had given these institutions life, liberalism has, in the course of a few generations, severely damaged all of them. The current political reality of disintegrating national states, ruined families, and eviscerated religious traditions is the direct consequence of the embrace of liberal dogma as a kind of universal salvation creed throughout much of the West. At this point, liberalism is widely accepted as a substitute for tradition, wisdom, and empiricism—which is another way of saying that it has replaced competent reasoning as well.

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1   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Mar 6, 8:23am  

Check out #ExposeChristianSchools. It's a hashtag campaign that started a few weeks ago dedicated to smearing them. As if on cue, NYS legislature is considering a package to greatly restrict private and home schooling, and after Cuomo just ordered "Guidelines" deployed for what was precisely tailed to Yeshivas

The criteria were narrowly tailored to yeshivos — they mention schools that are nonprofits, have a bilingual program, and have an educational program that begins before 9:00 a.m. and goes until at least 4 p.m. for grades one through three, 5:30 for grades four through eight, and 6:00 for high school.

https://hamodia.com/2018/11/20/ny-issues-long-awaited-guidelines-private-school-curriculum/

Liberalism no longer resembles the liberalism of the 90s or even 70s. It pushes anti-science Left-Lamarkian views of Gender Biology, is actively anti-Western/White in tone, is no longer interested in opportunities for the poor other than more entitlements (ie not creating jobs and affordable housing ), and makes excuses for censorship and banning of opinions. It seeks a Leftist Conformity.

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