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Boomers hijacked liberalism by changing its actual meaning – freedom from (government, tyranny, etc.) to mean the freedom to (do as one pleases) — and it stuck. Today, moral relativity — the philosophical belief that suggests morality varies between individual and thus there cannot be any objective measure of right and wrong — is the law of the land. Tolerance for any and all behavior is now so revered that if any person makes any judgments whatsoever he’s immediately branded a conservative (as if that were a bad thing).
This is absurd. Making value judgments about what’s best for society is not a liberal or conservative notion. The left and the right both make value judgments — and rightly so. The difference lies in what each side believes makes for a good society.
Because of Boomers’ influence, being liberal is wrongly associated with being tolerant and open-minded. I know people who wouldn’t dream of calling themselves conservative in public even though they are because they’ve bought into the 1960s notion that conservatives are intolerant — merely because they believe in right and wrong. Meanwhile, the truth — that conservatism is the fairer philosophy and offers people the greatest amount freedom they could ever hope to have, including freedom of thought and religion — lies buried beneath the surface.
Today’s so-called liberals — the folks who believe in an anything goes society — are merely leftists posing as liberals. That’s because they know that referring to themselves as liberal is better than being considered leftists. Being a leftist sounds…anarchist. Yet that’s precisely what today’s faux liberals are.
It’s also why no self-respecting American should even try to identify with this group.
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Suzanne Venker is an author, blogger, and speaker. Her new book, What Conservative Women Know, will be published March 2011. You can visit Suzanne at No Bull Mom.
