The apparent trends in our culture and the direction in which we are headed are, I believe, a serious cause for concern. It seems to me that the main objective of the Liberal-left is the removal of our God-given rights and basic personal freedoms. The intent it seems, is to replace them with state granted entitlements, “privileges” and virtue signalling pronouncements. Individual freedoms... in fact individualism itself, is an anathema to them. Apparently they would much prefer that we all simply become a part of the societal organism and collective mind. Freedom of speech therefore – in a liberal world – becomes freedom to speak in a state defined politically correct manner, so long as it:
a) doesn’t offend anyone,
b) declares only the “truth” as determined by the state,
c) doesn’t contain any state determined “hate” language, “triggers” or “code” and
d) meets all other necessary, to-be-determined, state regulations.
Today’s progressive liberal mindset is geared toward creating division amongst people. It selects and then sets aside various “identified groups,” as determined by special interest, race, gender and “victim” status. These divisions are then used to control individual speech even further. Such groups are granted special status for treatment and concepts commandeered to insure politically correct speech consisting of redefined words and terms i.e. racism, prejudice, marriage, bullying and hate to name just a few. All this is done to insure such special status can never be questioned and so that any contrarian personal values and views can be vilified.
In a “Progressive/Liberal world, the right to worship and freedom of religion becomes a carefully and suspiciously monitored privilege. Practically speaking, freedom of religion seems to mean nothing more than your right to decide which church you may attend (if you must) and beyond that, matters of conscience will be determined by the state. Your children are no longer your own, because now the state has declared themselves a co-parent. They will determine how the child will be raised, what they must be taught (socially – not just academically) and what they must believe. The hoped for result is that they can all one-day become fully indoctrinated and good little socialist liberals.
At this point in our history, what has happened to create such a strong embrace of left-wing Marxist ideology? It is my opinion that this move toward socialist liberalism is no overnight phenomenon but has been orchestrated with much planning. The move, to the left, has been accomplished by prolonged, venomous attacks on personal freedoms and individual rights. This attack has been accompanied by repeated attempts to demonize a successful capitalist system. Over the years, our system of capitalism does have its’ flaws nevertheless it has supported a high degree of financial freedom and prosperity. I believe there may be several answers to my question about why this push toward Marxism. I suspect that a major motivation is the desire to move all power, control and wealth away from the individual and place it in the hands of the state. The ruling class will then centralize control to achieve an almost god-like power and authority. That’s my opinion – what’s yours?
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