Classical Liberalism……. What Democrats USED-TO-BE…….
Ralph Raico once said, “Liberalism . . . is based on the conception of civil society as by and large self-regulating when its members are free to act within the very wide bounds of their individual rights. Among these, the right to private property, including freedom of contract and exchange and the free disposition of one’s own labor, is given a high priority. Historically, liberalism has manifested a hostility to state action, which, it insists, should be reduced to a minimum.” American Conservatives today subscribe to these notions of Classical Liberalism, and it USED-TO-BE true that Democrats also believed in them, but NOT any more. Today, there are less than a handful of Democrats in Congress that subscribe to Classical Liberalism and they do so at their own risk.
.
But, since Barack Obama purged the American Left of Classical Liberals, this is no longer so. Obama fulfilled his Pledge of “fundamentally transforming the United States of America” by eliminating the Classical Liberals in the Democrat Party by taking Hard-Left Political Positions on most issues; this ensured increasing levels of defeat for liberal Democrats at the polls — leaving behind Statist Progressives — in every election year, from 2010 to the present. In 2017, we find a record number of Republican-controlled legislative chambers and Governorships nationwide, not to speak of the US Senate, the House of Representatives, and the US Presidency.
