Twu

Liberalism is uncomfortable with patriotism*. The liberal's default reaction to expressions of patriotism, even on September 12th 2001, is typically to show anxiety about "jingoism". One of liberalism's seven pillars is transnationalism.

Obama and his little priggish speech about why he stopped wearing his country's flag.
And he wants to be the President of the USA...sorta. More like of "the planet".

This piece explains it nicely. Liberalism, as an ideology (and because it is an ideology
rather than an attitude), is fundamentally mistaken about what human beings are.

Liberalism talks a lot about freedom, but what it really wants is justice, especially "social justice", which means egalitarian outcomes. And justice and freedom are always in tension with each other. "Social justice" is usually the enemy of freedom.

Why? Because even if "all men are created equal", this metaphysical equality does not cash out into practical equality. Many men are better than I am, smarter, more accomplished, more virtuous, more successful, more admirable. And I am better, smarter, more accomplished, virtuous, successful and admirable than many men. If men are left free, thus it has always been and always shall be. It's a kind of, what shall we say..."bio-diversity."

In the drive to make us all practically equal, aka "social justice", the freedom to do better and to be better must be coercively managed by the state and the organs of social control.

Liberalism's purpose is to use state and social force in order to penalize and plunder successful groups (aka Oppressors) for the sake of empowering and enriching unsuccessful groups (aka Victims). Freedom is the last thing it loves.

Within a nation-state like ours --though how long this will last is up for serious doubt-- it is the war of the Have-Nots, real or imaginary, with the Haves. Put this on a global scale and there is no reason why an utterly liberal President like O would not engaged in penalizing and plundering "his own" country for the sake of the Global Victims.

Marxism as a state-enshrined world power may have gone down into dust in the late 20th century, but Marxism lives on, the lastest form of an old old heresy, which Orwell's "Animal Farm" skewered so frighteningly: utopianism.

And utopia, for you etymological types, is created from the Greek word for... "no place."

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*Try an experiment. In a room full of liberals, criticize America or Americans. Parochial, unilingual, uninformed, overweight, superstituously religious, racist, etc. Wait for someone to counter you and stand up for the US. Call me when they do.

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