But in its 20th/21st century forms, it is a metastatic disease of thought-control and ever-expanding State power, a power that is not limited by any principle inherent in Liberalism, which has no self-disciplinary principle. Because the Liberal State is identified with The Community and The Good --sounds like a church, no?-- to resist it makes you a H8er, and evil.
I think that the cancer metaphor is an apt one. Liberalism is the bastard child of Christianity and the Enlightenment, with an Xtreme Makeover provided by Marx, and its fundamental sources of energy provided by FDR and MLK, with a toxic estrogen additive thanks to Friedan-Steinem, etc. ClassRaceSex.
The only group which is the natural home of both Christianity and the Enlightenment is Whites, and White Males particularly. White Males are the target and ultimate enemy of Liberalism. But they are also the only foundation and sole engine of Western civilization, which is, after all, a White civilization created and developed by men. (As are all civilizations.)
Like cancer, Liberalism transforms from a healthy cell in a functioning body into a diseased parody of its earlier self and turns on its host and kills it.
And of course, it dies with the host.
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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Perhaps a parable would put it in more relatable terms?
Imagine a boy raised in a family where the mother is a kind-yet-strict, pious woman, and the father is a brilliant and bombastic atheist. The mother teaches the boy about God and to be a good Christian, but the father sneers at the mother's "silly superstitions" and admonishes the boy to never adopt his mothers beliefs. So the boy tries to live how his mother taught him, but he dresses it up in language his father would use, and so the ethics lose part of their meaning. The father repeatedly accuses the mother's family of doing horrible things; the mother protests that the father is misrepresenting the situation, but the father steamrolls her and tells the son that the mother's family is evil. The son comes to hate his mother's family, but his own mother becomes the receptacle of his hate, which conflicts with his love for her.
As the boy grows up, his father dies, and the boy suffers mental trauma from the dissonance of both loving his mother and hating her, and he develops several neuroses. Unable to confront the possibility that his father was abusive, the boy hates his mother even more, and his mental image of her gets twisted out of all proportion. Finally, one day, his hatred grows so great that he kills his mother in cold blood, only to realize that he has been living in his mother's house his entire life and cannot provide for himself, and he faces a future of starving to death in an empty house, or being arrested by the police and executed.
I just realized that this may come off as a passive aggressive expression of a desire to kill my mother, but nothing could be further from the truth.
-Sean
Or more simply, Liberalism bites (and eventually devours) the hand that feeds it.
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