2 weeks Ago By Craig Shirley
Is liberalism a crime? It’s something worth discussing and considering because today’s liberalism resembles nothing in history. Classical liberalism included thoughtful people such as Bill Buckley and President Reagan. “The Gipper” once joked that the right views every day as the Fourth of July while the left views every day as April 15.
It was funny then, but liberalism is a dangerous concept today. American liberalism has descended into a black cauldron of hate and violence, antisemitism, murder, shallowness and anti-intellectualism. Have we entered a new dark age? Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, “The right for one man to swing his fist ends where the other fellow’s nose begins.
” Now, American liberals violate the laws of God and man with impunity. We see shallowness in the form of the despicable subhuman Taylor Lorenz, a disgusting child who ought to have her mouth washed out with soap and sent to bed without her supper. If that is not enough, she needs to learn that laughter about someone’s death is the mark of a heathen.
Such a selfish and stupid little child is she. And yes, evil. Shallowness in the form of a U.
S. senator ignoring the monstrous crimes against his constituents by illegal aliens but flying to El Salvador to try to bring a thuggish criminal back into the United States. To what purpose, except to create mayhem and murder like his cretinlike compatriots? Liberalism is just a dangerous ideology like its first cousin, Nazism, also known as National Socialism.
The Nazis were antisemites like the American left. Just as the Nazis were godless, so too is the American left. As the Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Some classical liberals included John Locke, Isaac Newton, Francis Bacon and Thomas Jefferson.
Liberalism was about maximum human rights and freedom, the expansion of the mind and inquiry, and exploration, all hallmarks of the Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason. Hallmarks included rejecting men’s divinity as a basis for governance and accepting government by popular majority. It was an ideology for intellectualism and maybe for a gentler age.
It was the main point of discussion when men met in Philadelphia 250 years ago to throw off the crown of divine rule and embrace the better angels of our nature to create an elegant and new form of self-governance. That wonderful period, some say, comports with the Sunburst Theory of History when so many great minds met. Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Madison, Washington, Jay, Hamilton and others gathered twice: first to declare independence from Britain and a second time to agree on self-governance.
Things have radically changed in 250 years. Liberalism is now anti-intellectualism. Even worse, American liberals applaud the willful destruction of property, the burning of cars and car dealerships, and the firebombing of political headquarters of the Republican Party, as well as the imprisonment of little old ladies for simply praying in front of abortion mills, the murder of corporate executives, and the defense of corrupt and wasteful government.
They call for imprisoning parents who won’t let their children have devastating surgeries to alter their God-given bodies and stealing money from successful people and giving it to those who opt not to work or come to the U.S. illegally, all under the guise of “redistribution.
” American liberalism offered nothing good for the American citizenry, only pain and suffering and ignorance. Just ask the parents of a White high school student who was killed, who are not seeing justice because the boy’s assailant is Black and the presiding judge is a Black woman. So, American conservatism represents the light of intellectualism in the best tradition of the Age of Reason, and the American left represents the dark of anti-intellectualism in the worst traditions of humanity’s evils.
If I had my druthers, I’d be a prosecuting attorney charging the crime of liberalism rather than trying to mount a rationale for indefensible liberalism. Is American liberalism a crime? Do you need to ask? Copyright © 2025 The Washington Times, LLC. .
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