How the NWO has eroded Western Civilization - to weaken it for takeover
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(Edited from a piece in Breitbart News)
Modern liberalism, as practiced by the Democratic Party in the United States in 2015 and 2016 and its state-centric counterparts in Europe, bears little resemblance to classical liberalism.
"The ideology of classical liberalism is closer to what today is a current of conservatism in the United States," Richard Huddleson wrote in his 1999 book, Modern Political Philosophy.
Central to the classical liberalism of the nineteenth century is a commitment to the liberty of individual citizens. Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of assembly were core commitments of classic liberalism, as was the underlying conception of just government as the protection of the liberties of individual citizens. Also central to classical liberalsim was a commitment to a system of free markets as the best way to organize economic life.
Classical liberalism was the dominant philosophy in the United States and England, really, until about the 1915. [Curiously that is just about when the Rothschild Cartel inserted their privately owned (deceptively named) Federal Reserve Bank into American politics. ]
The bulwark of classical liberalism is constitutional liberty, which is defined as "such freedom as is enjoyed by the citizens of a country or state under the protection of its constitution; the aggregate of those personal, civil, and political rights of the individual which are guaranteed by the constitution and secured against invasion by the government or any of its agencies."
"I hold that governments are meant to be, and must remain, the servants of the citizens; that states and federations only come into existence and can only by justified by preserving the 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' in the homes and families of individuals. The true right and power rest in the individual. He gives of his right and power to the State, expecting and requiring thereby in return to receive certain advantages and guarantees," Winston Churchill wrote in his classic 1936 essay, "What Good's a Constitution?", a definitive description of constitutional liberty.
"The 19th century was the century of classical liberalism. Partly for that reason it was also the century of ever-increasing economic and political liberty, relative international peace, relative price stability and unprecedented economic growth," John Goodman, founder of the National Center for Policy Analysis and its president for 31 years, now head of the Goodman Institute, wrote recently.
A recent Rasmussen Reports Poll indicates that dissatisfaction with President Obama's leadership-or lack thereof- is at record levels and is on the rise. Dissatisfaction with European leaders is also high.
Several conservative authors in America, among them Mark Steyn, have observed this decline in the West, but none have offered a specific solution to reverse this trend.
A hint at the direction in which the resurrection of the West may be found comes, surprisingly, from two British authors, one of whom is a former cabinet minister in the government of British Labour prime minister Tony Blair.
Almost a decade ago British entrepreneur Richard Koch (no relation to the American Koch Brothers) and associate Chris Smith wrote a prescient book called Suicide of the West.
In it they argued:
One hundred years ago, most Westerners felt tremendous pride and confidence in their civilisation. They knew what it stood for, and they believed in it. Today that sense has gone.
That is largely because the six BLENDED principal ideas which underpinned Western confidence - those of Christianity-principles, optimism, education & learning, economic growth, [classical] liberalism and individualism - have suffered a century of sustained attack. These ideas no longer inspire or unite the West as they once did.
What is needed to reverse that decline is a very focused "back to basics" movement to restore believe in these six principal ideas - Christianity-principles, optimism, science, economic growth, classical liberalism (in its political expression of constitutional liberty and its economic expression of free markets) and individualism - and more importantly, the transfer of belief in these principal ideas to subsequent generations.
Therein lies the rub.
In a popular culture subsumed by triviality - where most know a great deal about current entertainment trends and how to use their smartphones - but little else, "back to basics" is easier said than done.
Here's one look at what "back to basics" means for the six principal ideas that built the West.
"Back to basics" in classical liberalism and constitutional liberty means the re-assertion of state sovereignty and individual rights in the face of increasing constitutional usurpations by the executive branch, statutorily unauthorized regulations, and a spineless and ineffective federal legislative branch.
A movement to go "back to basics" in these six principal ideas that brought the West to dominance, while ambitious, is completely consistent with the grassroots energy that brought the Tea Party movement to prominence in 2009.
It has the added advantage that it is not dependent upon a collectivist effort, but rather on millions of individual efforts.
If you want to know why the West is losing its self-confidence, look in the mirror. If you're not working ceaselessly to return yourself, your family and your immediate sphere of influence back to the basics of these six principal ideas that brought the West to the top, you're responsible, in your own small way, for its continued decline.
If leaders are weak and feckless, replace them. If institutions are failing, reform and reinvigorate them.