Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Hate Mail - The "Classical Liberals" Who Want To Leave The Oppression To the Private Sector Because They Won't Have To Pay For It

There is a reason that ex-professional virgin, alleged brains of the young right, little Benny Shapiro is often called a "classical liberal" to describe his Republican-fascist cum libertarian line of bull shit.  It's because it is, actually, in line with the aristocratic aspirations of the rich white men who wrote the Constitution, including the amendments and other provisions I've criticized. 

I have pointed out that it was Marilynne Robinson in her great essays on the Mosaic Law and the writings of John Calvin in relation to the genuinely American tradition of decidedly non-"classical" liberalism who convinced me of the difference between genuine American liberalism based on things like the commentary in the Geneva Bible, out of which the great reform of the Constitutional order arose,  abolitionism, the anti-wage slavery of the Lincoln period, Women's suffrage, etc . and the 18th century, French-British conception of liberalism which was constructed on such people as John Locke who had no problem with slavery and its extension to poor whites, trying to introduce aristocratic feudalism into the Carolinas and virtually all of the great heroes of 18th century liberalism who had no problem, in fact, with slavery, genocide, class inequality and the subjugation of women. 

I think a good part of the idiocy of secular liberalism in the United States, informed not by the Mosaic Law, especially as interpreted as egalitarian benevolence through Christianity, but by the 18th century "enlightenment"  is not really all that far from the crap Li'l Ben Shapiro and bull shit artists like Jordan Peterson peddle.   I think their lack of faith in something better accounts for why they have been so notably impotent in the face of Republican-fascism  of and how so many of them end up on the actual right.  Their greatest acts of piety surrounding "free speech-free press" and the suppression of Christianity in public life have been a boon, not for the egalitarian, common-good goals of the genuine American style of liberalism but for "classical liberalism" which is more like that Lockean feudal order.

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